4 Ways to Download Udemy Courses on PC [in One Go]
Udemy allows you to download videos on their mobile app for offline viewing, but for most of the cases, complete courses are not downloadable from a computer. One exception is that the instructors enable downloading of their lectures themselves, which is very rare.
In this article, I will show you a few options to download Udemy courses on a computer. You can download one video at a time without downloading any software or download all videos from one course at once.
Method 1: Download Udemy course with your web browser
Let’s say you are watching a Udemy video with your web browser on a PC and you find it fascinating, so you want to download it for offline viewing. You can just use your web browser to download it directly even though the Download option is greyed.
You can refer to the steps below to download Udemy videos easily. I will be using the Chrome web browser as an example.
Step 1. Log in with your Udemy account and open the Udemy video that you want to download.
Step 2. Right-click on blank space and select Inspect or press F12 (Windows) to open Developer Tools. In the Developer Tools, click on the Network tab and select Media as the screenshot below.
Step 3. Reload this page and then you will see the Udemy MP4 file URL listed.
Step 4. Open the URL in a new tab to start downloading the Udemy video.
If it does not start downloading, you should see the video is playing the new tab, and from there you can right-click and select Save Video as to download video course from Udemy.
Method 2: Udeler Udemy course downloader
If you want to download all or multiple videos in one Udemy course, there is open-source software Udeler to help you download all of your courses in one go. You can specify quality and which video to start at or end at.
Step 1. Download the open-source tool called Udeler.
Step 2. Log in with your Udemy login credentials.
Step 3. Select the video quality you want to download in “Settings”
Step 4. Select the Udemy course that you want to download and start downloading your courses seamlessly.
There is only one problem I found with Udeler. I usually select the 1080P or the highest, but the actually downloaded video is always 720P.
Method 3: Download All Udemy videos with YouTube-Dl
If you don’t like to download one tool that can only download videos from Udemy, you can use another open-source tool called YouTube-Dl. It allows you to download videos from more than 1000 websites and Udemy is among them.
Actually, I have written a few posts mentioning YouTube-DL. If you are using a Mac, you can refer to this post to see how to configure it on a Mac, and this one to install YouTube-DL on Windows. Once you get the tool installed. You can type the following command to download all videos from one Udemy course:
To Download the Course Videos, as is (Lacking File Name and/or Directory Organization) use the following command:
youtube-dl -u user@domain.com -p P@ssw0rd https://www.udemy.com/the-ultimate-google-adwords-training-course/learn/lecture/12313178#content
For Windows users, you should replace “youtube-dl” with “youtube-dl.exe”
If you get an error before you’ve finished Downloading the entire course, include the “–playlist-start” Command, to pick up where it left off. For example, you get an error just after Video #20 has finished Downloading and Video #21 is Starting Up, use the command below:
youtube-dl -u user@domain.com -p P@ssw0rd https://www.udemy.com/mta-windows-server-administration-fundamentals/ –playlist-start 21
besides Udemy, you can use this command to download private Facebook video or many others. However, the download speed is slower than the other methods addressed here.
Method 4: Download Udemy paid courses with Allavsoft ( Paid )
Another tool to download videos from Udemy is Allavsoft. Compared to YouTube-DL, it has a concise interface and allows you to download video and audio from even more website including Udemy, Lynda, YouTube, Spotify, Deezer in batch.
It is fast and supports 1080p high-quality videos. You can also set your preferred subtitles in the videos. If you want to download multiple courses from Udemy fast, this is probably the best choice.
Step1. Download and Install Allavsoft. It is available for both Windows and Mac.
Step 2. Copy and paste the Udemy course URL. If needed, choose the output format of the video because this program is also capable of converting video format. By default, the Udemy video will be downloaded as 1080p MP4 format.
Step 3. Click the big Download icon on the main interface and start downloading. When you use it for the first time, you will be prompted to log into your Udemy account.
Usually, in seconds the program will analyze the link and start downloading. If you are interested in this software, check this detailed Allavsoft review post.
Conclusion
As you can see, there are 4 different ways to download Udemy videos. The first 3 methods are totally free, only Allavsoft is a paid tool. If you use an Android phone, you can also download the videos on your Android phone with the Udemy app. You can use your File Manager app to find the downloaded videos in storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.udemy.android/files/udemy-final-downloads/.
Now, it is your turn. Which of these methods do you like the most? If you find something missing, let us know in the comments.
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