acloud-dl

A cross-platform python based utility to download courses from acloud.guru for personal offline use.

Note

You should run this with python3 (latest preferred), In future updates i will completely remove python2 support.

Features

Resume capability for a course video.
Download subtitle for a lecture.
Download all courses without any prompt (option: -a / --all).
List down course contents and video resolution, suggest the best resolution (option: -i / --info).
Download lecture(s) requested resolution (option: -q / --quality).
Download course to user requested path (option: -o / --output).
Authentication using cookies (option: -c / --cookies).
Download only courses that haven't been downloaded (option: -n / --new).
Rename course lecture video/audio files extensions to defined by user (option: -e / --extension).

Extracting Cookies

Login to your acloud.guru account via browser.
Once you are logged in right click on page the search for option called Inspect Element and click on that.
Under that look for Network Tab and click on that. Under that Network Tab click on Requests type XHR .
Now click on Browse Courses in the acloud.guru navbar and refresh the page you will see some requests under Network Tab.
Right click on any of the Requests which links to acloud.guru. Simply copy Request Headers and save to text file.
Done run the acloud-dl against that text file it will start downloading the course.

Requirements

Python 3 (3.9 tested, 3.11 broken)
Python pip
Python module requests
Python module colorama
Python module unidecode
Python module six
Python module requests[security] or pyOpenSSL

Module Installation

pip install -r requirements.txt

Tested on

Windows 7/8/8.1/10
Kali linux (2017.2)
Ubuntu-LTS (64-bit) (tested with super user)
Mac OSX 10.9.5 (tested with super user)

Download acloud-dl

You can download the latest version of acloud-dl by cloning the GitHub repository.

git clone https://github.com/r0oth3x49/acloud-dl.git

Usage

Steps before running acloud-dl.py which will list down courses you started

Login to your acloud.guru account via browser.
Click on Browse Courses.
Move mouse to the course you want to download.
On mouseover you will see a button "GET" click on that.
It Will redirect to the course there is another button "START THIS COURSE" click on that.
Done, Now you can use the below usage.

Download a course

python acloud-dl.py -c file_containing_cookie.txt

Download all courses

python acloud-dl.py -c file_containing_cookie.txt -a

Download courses by custom range

python acloud-dl.py -c file_containing_cookie.txt
[1] : Advanced AWS CloudFormation
[2] : AWS Certified Security - Specialty 2020
[3] : AWS ECS - Scaling Docker
[4] : AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty 2020
[5] : LPIC-1_ System Administrator
[6] : Mastering AWS CloudFormation
[?] : provide range (e.g:- 1-3,6) or select course number between (1/6/all/range): 2,4-6

Download course with specific resolution

python acloud-dl.py -c file_containing_cookie.txt -q 720

Download course to a specific location

python acloud-dl.py -c file_containing_cookie.txt -o "/path/to/directory/"

Download course with specific resolution to a specific location

python acloud-dl.py -c file_containing_cookie.txt -q 720 -o "/path/to/directory/"

List down course information

python acloud-dl.py -c file_containing_cookie.txt --info

Advanced Usage


Author: Nasir khan (r0ot h3x49)

usage: acloud-dl.py [-h] [-v] [-c] [-o] [-q] [-i] [-a] [-n] [-e]

A cross-platform python based utility to download courses from acloud.guru for
personal offline use.

General:
  -h, --help       Shows the help.
  -v, --version    Shows the version.

Authentication:
  -c , --cookies   Cookies to authenticate with.

Advance:
  -o , --output    Download to specific directory.
  -q , --quality   Download specific video quality.
  -i, --info       List all lectures with available resolution.
  -a, --all        Download all courses without any prompt (default: false).
  -n, --new        Download only courses that have not already been downloaded (default: false).
  -e, --extension  Rename course lecture video/audio files extension to defined by user. 

Example:
  python acloud-dl.py -c cookies.txt

Docker

The app can be executed within a container to avoid dependency issues. Clone the repository then execute following commands from the root location of the project.

Build Image

docker build -t acloud-dl .

Run Container

Assuming cookie file called cookie.txt and stored in root of project:

docker run -v ${PWD}:/opt/app \
  -u $(id -u ${USER}):$(id -g ${USER}) \
  -it --rm \
  acloud-dl -c cookie.txt

extra options or arguments can be appended as normal.

Please note, if you're using the --output option to specify a specific output directory then ensure that the container has access to these volumes (use additional docker bind-mounts as needed)

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