samsulrohman / laracasts-downloader-free

Downloads new FREE lessons and series from laracasts without login if there are updates. Or the whole catalogue.

Laracasts Downloader Free (Without Login)

Requirements

• PHP >= 5.4
• php-cURL
• php-xml
• Composer

Installation

• Clone this repo to a folder in your machine
• composer install
• php start.phpand you are done!

Also works in the browser, but is better from the cli because of the instant feedback

Downloading specific series or lessons

• You can use series and lessons names
• You can use series and lessons slugs (preferred because there are some custom slugs too)
• You can download multiples series/lessons

Commands to download series

php start.php -s "What's New in Laravel 5.4" -s "whats-new-in-laravel-5-4"

Then Open the file in series folder'download.html', Download them with your browser Recommended Use Firefox with DownThemAll

Command to download lessons

php start.php -l "Lesson name example" -l "lesson-slug-example"
php start.php --lesson-name "Lessons name example" --lesson-name "lesson-slug-example"

Troubleshooting

If you have a cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain do this:

• Download http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem
• Add curl.cainfo = "PATH_TO/cacert.pem" to your php.ini

And you are done! If using apache you may need to restart it.

License

This library is under the MIT License, see the complete license here