cdurau / Treehouse-Downloader

Download Courses for Offline Learning =)

Treehouse Downloader

• Download Treehouse Tracks, Courses and Workshops for offline use.

• You need an active account at teamtreehouse.com to download the courses.

• NOTE Your library might have partnered with teamtreehouse.com to offer you free teamtreehouse.com account.

Features

• Download
  • Courses
  • Tracks
  • Workshops
  • Practice Sessions
  • Instructions
  • Project Files
• Auto recognize download type
• Adapt folder structure accordingly

Requirements

• Python3
• ChromeWeb Driver (In your PATH)
• BeautifulSoup
• selenium
• aria2

Installation

• Install Python 3
• Install ChromeWeb Driver and add it to your PATH (Version has to match your installed chrome browser version)
• Install aria2

# open terminal or commandline
$ sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev -y
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

• Add your email, password and download path to the settings file data/settings.json

{
  "email": "treehouse-login",
  "password": "treehouse-password",
  "webdriver": "chromedriver",
  "download_folder": "PATH/TO/YOUR/DOWNLOAD/FOLDER/",
  "EXTERNAL_DL": "  --external-downloader aria2c --external-downloader-args '-j1 -x16 -s16 -k1M' "
}

Links to Download

• Add the download links to Tracks, Courses, Workshops, etc. seperated by line to data/links.txt
• Comments with "#" are possible

Usage

# open terminal or commandline
$ python treehouse.py

Acknowledgement

• Thanks to muse-sisay, for inspiration.