pluralsight_to_YT-DL

powershell script to download pluralsight courses by using youtube-dl. The courses contains subtitles, but you can skip them by removing the --all-subs flag in the file.

The courses must be in a text file placed in the same folder where is the script, and only one should go per line like. e.g :

https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/(COURSE1)/table-of-contents
https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/(COURSE2)/table-of-contents
https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/(COURSE3)/table-of-contents
...etc

Parameters

• username: Email associated to the pluralsight account.
• password: Password validation
• path: Path to Youtube-dl executable file.
  • DEFAULT: ".\youtube-dl.exe" (same folder that contains the script)
• courses: Text file that contains the URL of each course you want to download.
  • DEFAULT: "courses.txt"
• output: Text filename to save the downloaded courses list.
  • DEFAULT: "downloaded-courses"
• try: Number of tries to download for every course. If the argument given is 0, it'll perform the operation in an infinite loop until it's done.
  • DEFAULT: 0
• sleep: Sleep time to download each file in seconds. Valid range starts from 1.
  • DEFAULT: 120 (recommended)