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Ah no, I see the problem now.
Your Python version is too old. I used the syntax for format strings, which is only available since version 3.6.
I should update the version requirements or change the syntax.

Please update your python, for now...

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I made a short update, maybe it works without updating your Python. Give it a try.

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If you need this function right now you can also test the old downloader, it should have no problem with the videos, only with the file structure (but I can't promise it).

I will add the option to the new downloader in about two weeks.

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I created an account on https://moocs.hes-so.ch and took a look at the situation.
The videos were not uploaded directly to moodle but are hosted on youtube. So it wouldn't help to download the videos with my downloader. I have tested this once, on moodle there is only one html page saved with the embedded video, exactly this page is downloaded.

To download youtube videos efficiently I would recommend jdownloader 2 or youtube-dl (two very popular and large projects), with appropriate plugins you can also feed them directly from the browser with links.

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Which operating system do you use?

The error does not occur for me.

You could eventually solve the problem by specifying a valid path with the --path option, as it is explained in the Readme.

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The requested path is the one where all files are downloaded and where the database and the configuration is currently located. Default this should be the current working path (the path where you run the program) but you can change it to every path you want.

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@C0D3D3V Thanks for the prompt response.

I tested with both versions (3.5.9 and 3.6.10) and both appears to work.

However, only part ((no videos, just a welcome audio from under week 2, fyi) got downloaded from the moodle instance in https://moocs.hes-so.ch

Did I miss something?

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Great, I'm glad!
The downloader currently only downloads files from courses you are enrolled in. Furthermore only normal files, links and assignment files as well as submissions are downloaded. External links are only downloaded as links.

Videos are special resources on moodle. I can deal with them after the exam phase so that they can be downloaded.

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Great, I'm glad!
The downloader currently only downloads files from courses you are enrolled in. Furthermore only normal files, links and assignment files as well as submissions are downloaded. External links are only downloaded as links.

Videos are special resources on moodle. I can deal with them after the exam phase so that they can be downloaded.

Oh I see.

The purpose of any offline course downloader gets defeated if multimedia are not downloaded.

However, I am sure you would soon realize the multimedia download feature as seen from your promptness and proactivity! Yay! Kudos!

Cheers,
/z

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I created an account on https://moocs.hes-so.ch and took a look at the situation.
The videos were not uploaded directly to moodle but are hosted on youtube. So it wouldn't help to download the videos with my downloader. I have tested this once, on moodle there is only one html page saved with the embedded video, exactly this page is downloaded.

To download youtube videos efficiently I would recommend jdownloader 2 or youtube-dl (two very popular and large projects), with appropriate plugins you can also feed them directly from the browser with links.

Thanks for your prompt action to look in to the matter. Commendable!

However, they have two locations of videos, youtube and tube.switch.ch.

I used youtube-dl to download from youtube and video-downloader browser plugin to download from switch.

Thanks!

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