PacktPub Video Downloader (pvdl)

The Easiest way to download any Packt video tutorial

Notice: You need a Packt account with subscription or free trial to download videos

Features

• Download any video using your subscription
• Resume downloads
• Download rate limit
• Easy to use

How to use

First you need to install the prerequisites. On Debian-based distributions run the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev

Clone this repository, install requirements and run the script. For example:

chmod +x ./pvdl.py
pip install --user -r requirements.txt

./pvdl.py -u [email protected] -p Passw0rd -l "https://subscription.packtpub.com/video/programming/9781788834995"

or install pvdl using pip:

pip install --user pvdl

pvdl -u [email protected] -p Passw0rd -l "https://subscription.packtpub.com/video/programming/9781788834995"

Usage:

usage: pvdl.py [-h] [-u USERNAME] [-p PASSWORD] [-r RATE_LIMIT] [-l LINK]

PacktPub Video Downloader

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

required arguments:
  -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
                        Your Packt Username
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        Your Password
  -r RATE_LIMIT, --rate-limit RATE_LIMIT
                        Download rate limit
  -l LINK, --link LINK  Packt Video link

License

PacktPub Video Downloader is a free software and is licensed under GNU Public License v3+

For more information see LICENSE