I have gone threw coursera classes now and then. What I felt is need for a coursera video downloader. I searched but couldn’t found any good working one.

Hence here is a small script I developed which would give you all video links from coursera. Here is what you’ll have to do:

• Goto your class. For ex- Mine was  https://www.coursera.org/course/startup
• Enroll and go to video lectures from left tab. Here is the screenshot
• in chrome, press f12 to bring up chrome inspector. You can also right click anywhere on webpage and click inspect element. Go to console tab.
• Paste the following script into the console:

•     (function($){
        $("ul.course-item-list-section-list > li").each(function(){
          var link = $(this).find("a[data-link-type=\"lecture:download.mp4\"]").attr('href');
          console.log(link)
        });
      })(jQuery);
  

• Press enter and hopefully, it will parse every video link in the page.

Hope you’ve liked the article and it helped you. Please do comment if I owe any explanations. Share, it might be helpful to others.