Lynda is an American website that offers video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative, and business skills. It is a subsidiary of LinkedIn. Previously, AnonyViet gave you detailed instructions on how to create a Lynda Premium Account. Now we will download Lynda course by LyndaCoursesDownloader to the computer.

This tool is written by ahmedayman4a. This guy uses C# and selenium.

Why use LyndaCoursesDownloader?

• Easy to use
• Multi-platform
• Download the video quality you want
• No need to use lynda’s official software
• There will be more GUI interface
• Soon to add the feature of direct update via google drive

Easy to install

You guys come in this link and download the version suitable for your operating system. Click on the place Assest you will see the download link

Request

LyndaCoursesDownloader This requires geckodriver or chromedriver to be saved in the same folder as the LyndaCoursesDownloader.exe file.

And these two guys are also available in the folder you downloaded. Just unzip it and you can use it.

One more thing, if you use chrome or firefox, update your browser to the latest version. It is recommended to use Firefox for good support.

How to use LyndaCoursesDownloader

LyndaCoursesDownloader helps to Download Lynda Videos to computers that support Linux and Windows.

Windows

Setting Firefox to Windows

You just need to run the file LyndaCoursesDownloader.exe is to be

Next, fill in the information as shown in the image:

1. Select FireFox, type 1 then Enter

2. Copy the link of the course Lynda wants to download

3. Copy your Acc Lynda Premium Token (How to get Token see end of article)

4. Select the video quality you want to download. Eg 360 then press Enter

Linux

You open the terminal in the folder containing the downloaded file. Then type the command: tar -zxvf Lynda(pressing Tab will show the rest)Then go to the extracted folder and enter the command: chmod 777 ./LyndaCoursesDownloader
This command allows all users in the system to have full permissions: read, write and execute.Finally enter the command: ./LyndaCoursesDownloader

The steps to fill in the information are the same as on the Windows instructions.

How to get Cookies on firefox and Chrome

To get Cookies you need to sign in to Lynda first. See how create a Lynda Premium account if you haven’t already.

Firefox

1. Press Shift + F9 or right click on Lynda web, select “Inspect Element” and click on tab Storage.
2. Find the word “token” in the “Name” column. Copy the data and paste it into the program.

Google Chrome

1. Right click on the page and select “Inspect element” or press F12
2. Click the “Application” tab
3. Go to “cookies” then press www.lynda.com
4. Find the word “token”. Copy data from pass to program