LinkedIn Learning Courses Downloader

A library and CLI to download LinkedIn learning courses using your LinkedIn Premium account

How to use

• You need a valid and active LinkedIn Premium subscription
• You need to have Node.js installed

Download dependencies

Go to the project directory using terminal & run

npm install

Create a params.json file

{
    "user": "[email protected]",
    "password": "yourpassword",
    "items": [
        "react-essential-training",
        "path/become-a-mern-stack-javascript-developer",
        "https://www.linkedin.com/learning/me/saved"
    ],
    "outputFolder": "./courses"
}

• Fill in your credentials

• Provide an array of items you wish to download. Each item is the URL (full or just last part) of either :

  • An individual course : https://www.linkedin.com/learning/final-cut-pro-x-10-4-4-essential-training

  • A learning path : https://www.linkedin.com/learning/paths/become-a-mern-stack-javascript-developer

    • All courses that are part of the learning path will be downloaded in the output folder with the other courses
    • Courses that are already part of the selection (i.e. included in another learning path) will not be downloaded again
    • As a reminder of the learning path content and order, a .txt file named after the learning path is outputed as well

  • A personal collection : https://www.linkedin.com/learning/collections/6595573961260707840

    • All courses that are part of the collection will be downloaded
    • If the collection includes an individual video (that is, only a part of the course), the whole course will be downloaded

  • The Saved Courses section of My Learning : https://www.linkedin.com/learning/me/saved

    • All your saved courses (outside of any collection) will be downloaded

  • The In Progress section of My Learning : https://www.linkedin.com/learning/me/in-progress

    • All courses that are in progress, including those that are part of a learning path, will be downloaded

  • The Learning History section of My Learning : https://www.linkedin.com/learning/me/completed

    • All completed courses will be downloaded

Run to download courses

$ npm start

If one of the courses or one of the courses' lessons already exists in the output path, it is not re-downloaded.

There is a 3-retries mechanism to deal with unavailable videos (due to network issues for instance). However, if a lesson video is eventually unreachable, the script logs a warning and goes on with the next videos. In that case, you could still re-run the script with the same parameters and only the unreachable videos will be downloaded again.

In progress...

This is a beta version and although it works, some better error handling will be done shortly. It has been tested with the latest LinkedIn Learning design change of early 2020, though.

In a near future, you can expect the following features :

• Specifying course list from a LinkedIn Collection or Path
• CLI version with multiple commands using a csv file instead of params.json
• Optional download of transcripts
• Optional download of exercise files