nptel-dl

A command line tool to download course videos from NPTEL

Features

• Download course to user requested path (option: -dir).
• Support downloading in MP4, FLV & 3GP file formats (option: -format)
• Start download from a specific lecture number (option: -start)

Download

You can download the binaries for your machine from the releases page.

Usage

Help

nptel-dl -h

Download course

nptel-dl -courseID 106106198

Download course to specific directory

nptel-dl -courseID 106106198 -dir ~/Desktop/myawsomecourses/machine-learning

Start download from a specific lecture number

nptel-dl -courseID 106106198 -start 21

Download different formats

nptel-dl -courseID 106106198 -format 3gp

Currently supported format options are: mp4, 3gp & flv.
Default format is MP4

TODO:

• Add mp3 download support (option: -format mp3)
• Add PDF Transcript download support (option: -transcript)
• Add info option that list all videos (option: -info)
• Add option to download a specific module (option: -module)
• Add option to download till a specific lecture number (option: -end)
• Support for resumable downloads