NAME

WWW::Coursera - Downloading material (video, text, pdf ...) from Coursera.org online classes.

VERSION

Version 0.02

SYNOPSIS

It scrapes the course index page to get lecture names, and then downloads the related materials.

Code snippet.

 use WWW::Coursera;
 my $initial = WWW::Coursera->new( username => 'xxxxx', password => 'xxxx', course => 'xxxx');
 $initial->set_localdir("/home/xxxxx/Perl/Coursera/tmp");
 $initial->get_all();

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

new

Object construction with user authorization and course name parameter.

set_localdir

Set download folder by set $inizial->set_localdir("OS_FOLDER");

set_cookie

In the source code below, will create a cookie named cookie.txt to store header information.

set_csrftoken

Filter csrf_token key from the cookie.txt file.

get_session

Send a new html request to get session cokkie token and save session key in global variable.

get_links

Extract links from course index page.

download

Download lectures.

get_all

Main, which marks the entry point of the program.

AUTHOR

Ovidiu Nita Tatar, <ovn.tatar at gmail.com>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-www-coursera at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=WWW-Coursera. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc WWW::Coursera
    
    or
   
    https://github.com/ovntatar/WWW-Coursera/issues

You can also look for information at:

• RT: CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here)

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=WWW-Coursera

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/WWW-Coursera

• CPAN Ratings

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/WWW-Coursera

• Search CPAN

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Coursera/

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2013 Ovidiu Nita Tatar.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.

cpanm WWW::Coursera

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install WWW::Coursera