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C:\Projects\skillshare-downloader\code>python example.py
Downloading C:\Projects\skillshare-downloader\code\data\fkane\data-science-and-machine-learning-with-python-hands-on/01 - introduction.mp4...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "example.py", line 10, in
dl.download_course_by_url('https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Data-Science-and-Machine-Learning-with-Python-Hands-On/1263657127')
File "C:\Projects\skillshare-downloader\code\downloader.py", line 36, in download_course_by_url
self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))
File "C:\Projects\skillshare-downloader\code\downloader.py", line 100, in download_course_by_class_id
video_id=video_id,
File "C:\Projects\skillshare-downloader\code\downloader.py", line 151, in download_video
with open(fpath, 'wb') as f:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C\Projects\skillshare-downloader\code\data\fkane\data-science-and-machine-learning-with-python-hands-on/01 - introduction.mp4'

Am I doing something wrong?

Hey there!

I have been using the skillshare downloader and it works great, but I have a problem. I can't manually download the videos by editing it all the time since I have a large collection of classes to download.

I was wondering if there is a way to download multiple videos at once, it could be VERY handy. The program overall does the job fine and keep the great work up man!

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/code/example.py", line 11, in
dl.download_course_by_url('https://www.skillshare.com/classes/How-to-Ace-your-Exams-The-Method-to-Mastery/1787903253')
File "/code/downloader.py", line 36, in download_course_by_url
self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))
File "/code/downloader.py", line 83, in download_course_by_class_id
raise Exception('Failed to read video ID from data')
Exception: Failed to read video ID from data

After downloading a course, this error keeps appearing when I try to download another one
I checked that the cookie was ok and it is (it's the same I used with the other course)

Hi, is there a mac version of this program please?

Determined that 2 modifications are required to the source code for this to work. First install an older version of the slugify package (anything before 4.0.0) and then reference one of the previous posts about failing to fetch video id. Replace the if statement with the new one the user provided and then everything should work hope this helps.

I have used skillshare-downloader for a number of courses to be able to watch them off line but today I ran across an issue I haven't seen before. I am attempting to download a course that has over 200 videos and on video 134, I get the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in
runfile('L:/downloaded/dl/skillshare-downloader-master/code/SkillshareDownload.py', wdir='L:/downloaded/dl/skillshare-downloader-master/code')

File "P:\Users\Jess\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder_kernels\customize\spydercustomize.py", line 827, in runfile
execfile(filename, namespace)

File "P:\Users\Jess\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spyder_kernels\customize\spydercustomize.py", line 110, in execfile
exec(compile(f.read(), filename, 'exec'), namespace)

File "L:/downloaded/dl/skillshare-downloader-master/code/SkillshareDownload.py", line 10, in
dl.download_course_by_url("https://www.skillshare.com/classes/BECOME-A-GREAT-SINGER-Your-Complete-Vocal-Training-System/1213366843?via=search-layout-grid")

File "L:\downloaded\dl\skillshare-downloader-master\code\downloader.py", line 36, in download_course_by_url
self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))

File "L:\downloaded\dl\skillshare-downloader-master\code\downloader.py", line 108, in download_course_by_class_id
video_id=video_id,

File "L:\downloaded\dl\skillshare-downloader-master\code\downloader.py", line 145, in download_video
raise Exception('Failed to fetch video meta')

Exception: Failed to fetch video meta

Each time I run the program with python example.py it just returns nothing I have uploaded a screenshot and example.py code (minus the cookie part) also I am running Kali Linux. Thanks in advance!

`from downloader import Downloader

cookie = """
I think you put your cookies between the speech marks or do you remove them?
"""

dl = Downloader(cookie=cookie)

download by class URL:
('https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Python-3-A-Beginners-Guide-to-Python-Programming/821742951')

or by class ID:
dl.download_course_by_class_id(821742951)`

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "J:\Downloads\AverageSpatialSearch\main.py", line 10, in <module>
    dl.download_course_by_url('https://www.skillshare.com/classes/How-to-Make-Apps-with-No-Programming-Experience/1960310793')
  File "downloader.py", line 24, in download_course_by_url
    self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))
  File "downloader.py", line 63, in download_course_by_class_id
    raise Exception('Failed to read video ID from data')
Exception: Failed to read video ID from data

I can not solve this problem. May be you can solve??

hello im not a developer and i need to run this because i want the courses to be on my laptop please

Hey man, sorry for bugging you again :P
So I shifted to a linux environment because the program is optimized for it, I guess.
(It kept throwing errors on windows that I didn't have the energy to work on.)
Everything was working absolutely fine but this one time around when I was downloading a course this happened:

I did a quick search and found it has something to do with using the str() function on line 58 in downloader.py. Is a quick fix possible by using an alternative function? If you need an account cookie to test the code, you can use mine :)

Cheers mate 👍

I have got the same issue like this one:
Exception: Failed to fetch video meta
In my case a certain video doesn't play on Skillshare and the program gets stuck on that video and I don't know how to tell the program to skip that video like the person who posted this same issue last time.

Any suggestions would be helpfull.

if the slugify is already installed:
pip uninstall slugify

and then

for slugify:
pip install python-slugify

for requests:
pip install requests

I have a valid subscription but I have been receiving this error. This is happening after I had successfully downloaded a couple of courses.

I cannot execute the python script because I cannot find my cookie.

I am getting the following error - Python 2

C:\code>python example.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "example.py", line 10, in <module>
    dl.download_course_by_url('https://www.skillshare.com/classes/How-to-Get-a-Job-as-a-Front-End-Web-Developer-The-Complete-Step-by-Step-Guide/1711276638?via=search-layout-grid')
  File "C:\code\downloader.py", line 36, in download_course_by_url
    self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))
  File "C:\code\downloader.py", line 62, in download_course_by_class_id
    slugify(teacher_name),
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\slugify.py", line 26, in slugify
    unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', string)
TypeError: normalize() argument 2 must be unicode, not str

I have entered the cookie, but it still doesnt do anything.

Is there a way to set the resolution to be downloaded? Currently it is 1280. I would like to download more, hence would be happy if the resolution could be set lower.

Hi there, I'm getting an error when using the script.

C:\Users\***>python D:\skillshare-downloader-master\code\exemple.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\skillshare-downloader-master\code\exemple.py", line 10, in <module>
    dl.download_course_by_url('https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Art-Fundamentals-in-One-Hour/189505397')
  File "D:\skillshare-downloader-master\code\downloader.py", line 24, in download_course_by_url
    self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))
  File "D:\skillshare-downloader-master\code\downloader.py", line 35, in download_course_by_class_id
    if isinstance(teacher_name, unicode):
NameError: name 'unicode' is not defined

I thought this might have been an error due to using Python 3 instead or 2.7, but using 2.7 got me another error:

C:\Users\***> C:\Python27\python.exe D:\skillshare-downloader-master\code\exemple.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\skillshare-downloader-master\code\exemple.py", line 1, in <module>
    from downloader import Downloader
  File "D:\skillshare-downloader-master\code\downloader.py", line 1, in <module>
    import requests
ImportError: No module named requests

I don't really know what could be wrong, so I'm asking the question here, sorry :/

I use Google to sign in to skillshare so maybe that's the issue. Could that be why I can't find document.cookie?

When i execute the script i get this error

Downloading /data/hardyfowler/art-fundamentals-in-one-hour/01 - trailer.mp4...
Video already downloaded, skipping...

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "example.py", line 10, in <module>
    dl.download_course_by_url('https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Art-Fundamentals-in-One-Hour/189505397')
  File "/code/downloader.py", line 36, in download_course_by_url
    self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))
  File "/code/downloader.py", line 83, in download_course_by_class_id
    raise Exception('Failed to read video ID from data')
Exception: Failed to read video ID from data
PS C:\skillshare> docker-compose run --rm ssdl python example.py
Downloading /data/hardyfowler/art-fundamentals-in-one-hour/01 - trailer.mp4...
Video already downloaded, skipping...

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "example.py", line 10, in <module>
    dl.download_course_by_url('https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Art-Fundamentals-in-One-Hour/189505397')
  File "/code/downloader.py", line 36, in download_course_by_url
    self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))
  File "/code/downloader.py", line 83, in download_course_by_class_id
    raise Exception('Failed to read video ID from data')
Exception: Failed to read video ID from data

You need to change hard-coded path to download location. On Linux based system, you won't be able to download in to /data... change this to ../data or smth like that. Otherwise is working quite right...

This line in particular is removing : from the file paths, making them invalid on windows systems.
https://github.com/kallqvist/skillshare-downloader/blob/master/code/downloader.py#L145

As of slugify being used for normalizing strings it should probably be safe to remove this line

Guys please help me. I am just trying to download my class. I dont know anything about coding. I spent an hour to find out I need python. Please help and tell me how exactly I need to the thing to download my steps.

I followed the instructions to find the cookie but I still cannot find it. when I type in document.cookie into the console nothing pops up :(
Please help

I'm a python noob :( any help would be awesome

I run the command: docker-compose run --rm ssdl python example.py

and get this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "example.py", line 10, in
dl.download_course_by_url('https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Art-Fundamentals-in-One-Hour/189505397')
File "/code/downloader.py", line 36, in download_course_by_url
self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))
File "/code/downloader.py", line 39, in download_course_by_class_id
data = self.fetch_course_data_by_class_id(class_id=class_id)
File "/code/downloader.py", line 106, in fetch_course_data_by_class_id
res = requests.get(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 76, in get
return request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 61, in request
return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 530, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 643, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 439, in send
resp = conn.urlopen(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 665, in urlopen
httplib_response = self._make_request(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 387, in _make_request
conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/http/client.py", line 1230, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/http/client.py", line 1271, in _send_request
self.putheader(hdr, value)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/http/client.py", line 1203, in putheader
values[i] = one_value.encode('latin-1')
UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u2026' in position 399: ordinal not in range(256)

Pls can someone tell me how to fix this problem
and please modify the readme file for better understanding for newbies like me.

I have a list of courses which I have compiled and want to download. It would be really great if you were to add reading from a .txt file, because having to add the URLs manually takes a lot of work. I appreciate what you've made and I hope my suggestion can make it better.

Thanks!

The program skipped downloading video # 3 and went ahead with video # 4

What could be the reason for this? Also, is this tool specifically built for windows? I ask because I tweaked some of the code to include a variable that asks for the course url on running the script so that I don't have to manually paste the course url in the source code. So what I discovered was that when I downloaded a course that had a colon (:) in it's name, it gave me this error:

> C:\skillshare-download\code>example.py
> Enter Course URL:https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Mobile-Photography-Creating-
> Consistent-Look-and-Feel/158630588
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\skillshare-download\code\example.py", line 12, in <module>
>     dl.download_course_by_url(course_url)
>   File "C:\skillshare-download\code\downloader.py", line 24, in download_course_
> by_url
>     self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))
>   File "C:\skillshare-download\code\downloader.py", line 42, in download_course_
> by_class_id
>     os.makedirs(base_path)
>   File "C:\Python27\lib\os.py", line 157, in makedirs
>     mkdir(name, mode)
> WindowsError: [Error 267] The directory name is invalid: '/data/ioegreer/Mobile
> Photography: Creating Consistent Look and Feel'

Windows does not allow a colon in its naming conventions. I suggest you replace every space and other special character(s) from the course name to a dash (-) so that windows doesn't complain about the naming. If I knew python better I'd do it myself but I don't so please look this over as soon as you can.

Cheers mate. This tool will save me a ton of manually constructing URL's for each video using chromes network monitor :D (If I can get it to work :P )

Hey there, I am having an issue when I search for document.cookie in console. for some reason nothing shows up. Any help?

Hello
Can you please include project files to download automatically for a course
Thanks

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "example.py", line 10, in
dl.download_course_by_url('')
File "/home/boogyman/skillshare-downloader/code/downloader.py", line 38, in download_course_by_url
self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))
File "/home/boogyman/skillshare-downloader/code/downloader.py", line 64, in download_course_by_class_id
slugify(teacher_name),
File "/home/boogyman/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/slugify.py", line 24, in slugify
unicode(
NameError: name 'unicode' is not defined

Hello!

I always get after downloading the first video (the free preview) of a course, the following error:
Exception: Failed to read video ID from data

Thought that my cookie might be wrong but the free preview is also beeing downloaded without a cookie.

Need help, thank you!

Downloading C:\Users...\data\theawwwesomes\boost-personal-branding-by-coding-your-own-website-html-css-basics/01 - intro.mp4...
[==================================================]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users...\Downloads\skillshare-downloader-master\skillshare-downloader-master\code\example.py", line 10, in
dl.download_course_by_url('https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Boost-Personal-Branding-by-Coding-Your-Own-Website-HTML-CSS-Basics/1551945410')
File "C:\Users...\Downloads\skillshare-downloader-master\skillshare-downloader-master\code\downloader.py", line 36, in download_course_by_url
self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))
File "C:\Users...\Downloads\skillshare-downloader-master\skillshare-downloader-master\code\downloader.py", line 83, in download_course_by_class_id
raise Exception('Failed to read video ID from data')
Exception: Failed to read video ID from data

it's an absolute time saver, thanks a lot

not able to download videos with non-ASCII characters in the title, tried converting to ASCII using sublime text, added UTF-8 as the coding in downloader.py, nothing helped can you suggest some workaround.

When i execute the script i get this error

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "example.py", line 12, in
dl.download_course_by_class_id(387672280)
File "/home/ibrahim/Downloads/pyles/sw/skillshare-downloader-master/code/downloader.py", line 100, in download_course_by_class_id
video_id=video_id,
File "/home/ibrahim/Downloads/pyles/sw/skillshare-downloader-master/code/downloader.py", line 140, in download_video
if x['container'] == 'MP4' and 'src' in x:
KeyError: 'container'

how open? please

So I thought I had everything setup: installed slug, etc...

but for some reason, whenever I run the script, it keeps giving me a "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'urllib2'"

How do I install this module?

The instruction on the ReadMe is quite confusing.

I've tried using both Firefox and Chrome and can't seem to find the mentioned 'document.cookie' anywhere in the development tools.

Without the right cookie, the app only downloads the first video and fails when it tries to download the rest.

I can download all the videos but none of them contains sound. How to fix this please?

Please add an option to add batch file (like youtube-dl).

Please add an option to use cookies.txt (like youtube-dl) instead of document.cookie

After implementing changes discussed in issue #32, the script started working again. But an attempt to resume an unfinished download, which normally should skip already downloaded videos, results in multiple errors.

Failed to establish a new connection: [WinError 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond

%Run example.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\x\Downloads\skillshare-downloader-master\code\example.py", line 1, in
from downloader import Downloader
File "C:\Users\x\Downloads\skillshare-downloader-master\code\downloader.py", line 1, in
import requests
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'

I was using it yesterday just fine. Not sure what changed. There was a windows update and I'm not sure if it broke something. lol

Edit:
I'm on Windows 10. Using Thonny to edit. I tried removing and reinstalling all python related stuff including Thonny.

Now I'm getting this error:

"raise Exception('Failed to read video ID from data')
Exception: Failed to read video ID from data"

Can someone please confirm if this scrpit is still working and it's just an error on my end?

Edit:
I was able to make it work. Kind of. I've re-installed everything and added some lines from the other topic issue. However, the cookie doesn't seem to last before I had this issue. I need to logoff the account from browser then login again then copy the new cookie for it to work. Any solutions?

Help...did anyone know how to use it

Can you update for download in 1080 format, this tool, download 720 format only.

Thanks you!

"video_hashed_id": null, can this be fixed?

Such as for this course https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Photoshop-CC-Masterclass-Foundations-Part-1/324272892

Hello there!

I tried running the script and this what it says! I'm sorry but I'm a total noob at everything coding and I can't find a solution :( I think I got the right document.cookie, so I can't figure out what's wrong. Please help!

Thanks in advance.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\test\Desktop\skillshare-downloader\skillshare-downloader-master\code\example.py", line 10, in
dl.download_course_by_url('https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Learn-Adobe-Photoshop-Like-a-Pro-Advanced-Techniques/1959580090')
File "C:\Users\test\Desktop\skillshare-downloader\skillshare-downloader-master\code\downloader.py", line 36, in download_course_by_url
self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))
File "C:\Users\test\Desktop\skillshare-downloader\skillshare-downloader-master\code\downloader.py", line 83, in download_course_by_class_id
raise Exception('Failed to read video ID from data')
Exception: Failed to read video ID from data

C:\Users\test\Desktop\skillshare-downloader\skillshare-downloader-master\code>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

add feature for:

1. English subtitle automatic
2. Multiple course download at once by multiple course id