coursera-dl | Script for downloading Coursera.org videos

coursera-dl requires Python 2 or Python 3 and a free Coursera account enrolled in the class of interest. (As of February of 2020, we test automatically the execution of the program with Python versions 2.7, Pypy, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9). Note: We strongly recommend that you use a Python 3 interpreter (3.9 or later). On any operating system, ensure that the Python executable location is added to your PATH environment variable and, once you have the dependencies installed (see next section), for a basic usage, you will need to invoke the script from the main directory of the project and prepend it with the word python. You can also use more advanced features of the program by looking at the "Running the script" section of this document. Note: You must already have (manually) agreed to the Honor of Code of the particular courses that you want to use with coursera-dl.
From a command line (preferably, from a virtual environment), simply issue the command:. This will download the latest released version of the program from the Python Package Index (PyPI) along with all the necessary dependencies. At this point, you should be ready to start using it.
We strongly recommend that you install coursera-dl and all its dependencies in a way that does not interfere with the rest of your Python installation. This is accomplished by the creation of a virtual environment, or "virtualenv".
Coursera-dl supports external downloaders but note that they are only used to download materials after the syllabus has been parsed, e.g. videos, PDFs, some handouts and additional files (syllabus is always downloaded using the internal downloader). If you experience problems with downloading such materials, you may want to start using external downloader and configure its timeout values. For example, you can use aria2c downloader by passing --aria option:.