Skillshare course downloader for offline viewing (for VFXmed community)

This tool is used to download skillshare courses for offline viewing if you want to watch courses underway without wasting mobile data. Premium Account(or trial account) needed. For educational/and or legitimate purposes only!

The videos will be downloaded into the same directory you are running the script from and will be sorted into folders for each course

Possible Updates:

• Bulk downloading
• Selective downloading

Step 1: Setting up and installing requirements

• Open cmd in Windows as administrator (search for cmd, then right-click and hit "run as administrator").
• Navigate to your folder with the requirements.txt in it by typing cd /pathtofolder/skillshare-offline-use
• Then download and install requirements for python module by typing pip install -r requirements.txt

Step 2: Getting Course Cookies

• Go to: https://www.skillshare.com/ and navigate to the page of the course you want to download.
• Use a cookie manager like Cookie Editor to get and copy the PHPSESSID value of the website cookie
• Paste copied value into cookie.txt after PHPSESSID=

Step 3: Download the Course

Run python downloader.py in cmd, enter the URL of your course when prompted and select subtitle features.

NOTE: It is highly recommended to run this using PyCharm or other IDE applications, as it runs more reliably than in cmd.

Credits for original skillshare python module: @kallqvist