Download Pluralsight transcripts from the transcript tab instead of accessing all videos

0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF commented 7 years ago

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Currently when I'm downloading transcripts from a course from www.pluralsight.com, it seems youtube-dl download them from individual video pages. youtube-dl needs to access all videos of a course in order to download them. After downloaded them, the whole course is marked as watched. However, on the course page there is a tab called "transcript" that include all the transcripts of the couse (for all videos). Is it possible to download transcripts from this page so that it more performant and doesn't need to mark all videos as watched?

dstftw commented 7 years ago

tab called "transcript" that include all the transcripts of the couse (for all videos)

Contains only first video.

0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF commented 7 years ago

Oh that's not true. I tried on several courses and all of them include all transcripts in the "transcript" tab. I captured a snapshot, see this http://imgur.com/a/KOCHP

shanyuen commented 7 years ago

you can use --write-sub --skip-download parameter on playlist page, then it will download subtitles without video files. Make sure you limit 2 minutes per session, or your account will be freezed for several days.

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