New feature - PDFs of quizes and other materials about coursera-dl HOT 6 OPEN

Here's an example of other materials that might be useful (with examples from progfun-002):

• Assignment index page (e.g.), linking to
  • assignment instructions (e.g.)(for HTML)
  • assignment project (e.g.) (zip of code framework)

I don't know how generic this scheme is.

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+1 This would be helpful.

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I don't think that changing the info to PDF would be a good idea,
maybe keeping the original html, would be better.

The main issue of downloading the extra materials is that each course
defines their own sections. Generally they do it through an internal
wiki that produces links like:

https://class.coursera.org/<COURSE_NAME>/wiki/view?page=Schedule

(e.g. for the schedule, course information, faq, course logistics,
etc):

I think that parsing and getting such pages must not be so
difficult. As well as downloading the standard sections that almost
all courses have (that have an almost regular structure):

/quiz/index -> quizzes
/assignment/index -> auto graded assignments
/human_grading/index -> peer graded assignments
/quiz/index?quiz_type=homework -> homework questions (not in all courses)
/quiz/index?quiz_type=exam -> exam (not in all courses)

Another issue is that many times those pages have links to external
ressources such as .zip files or .pdf and those are sometimes hosted
in other places. The question would be where to stop, and what's the
best way to do such crawler without reinventing the wheel or hand
coding everything, to have in the end a nice 'browsable' site like
with (wget -p, or httrack).

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I recently discovered that some courses do not (or no longer) make their materials available indefinitely after the course and lost important reference material as a result. I have turned to coursera-dl for downloading, and am manually grabbing what it does not.

Just the ability to grab the surrounding coursera web(wiki?) pages (syllabus, course materials,etc) would be a great next step. I agree that HTML is better than PDF.

Following all the links on the coursera pages to grab the linked PDFs, Word docs, YouTube videos, and everything would be a really cool future goal, but probably not as important. In many cases a user may not want to download all of those external resources and may prefer to follow the links from the downloaded coursera page.

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Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/coursera-quiz-printer/pkgbcmdpjlnmngdfjicnkppkkmnaejnm

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/coursera-quiz-printer/

Blogpost: https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/10/17/coursera-quiz-printer-a-cross-browser-webextension/

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