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Script to download Coursera lecture notes
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require 'restclient' | |
# Create the list from the course page by running the following JavaScript | |
# snippet, and copying and paste the results in here. I _think_ the Content-Type | |
# of the pdfs prevents them from being downloaded directly in JavaScript. | |
# $('.course-lectures-list ul:eq(2) a[href$="pdf"]').map(function () { return $(this).attr('href') }) | |
urls = ["https://d19vezwu8eufl6.cloudfront.net/compdata/slides%2Flecture3.pdf", | |
"https://d19vezwu8eufl6.cloudfront.net/compdata/slides%2Ffunctions.pdf", | |
"https://d19vezwu8eufl6.cloudfront.net/compdata/slides%2Fscopingrules.pdf", | |
"https://d19vezwu8eufl6.cloudfront.net/compdata/slides%2Foptimization.pdf", | |
"https://d19vezwu8eufl6.cloudfront.net/compdata/slides%2Flapply.pdf", | |
"https://d19vezwu8eufl6.cloudfront.net/compdata/slides%2Fapply.pdf", | |
"https://d19vezwu8eufl6.cloudfront.net/compdata/slides%2Ftapply.pdf", | |
"https://d19vezwu8eufl6.cloudfront.net/compdata/slides%2Fmapply.pdf", | |
"https://d19vezwu8eufl6.cloudfront.net/compdata/slides%2Fdebugging1.pdf", | |
"https://d19vezwu8eufl6.cloudfront.net/compdata/slides%2Fdebugging2.pdf", | |
"https://d19vezwu8eufl6.cloudfront.net/compdata/slides%2Fdebugging3.pdf"] | |
urls.each do |url| | |
fn = url.split('/')[-1].sub('%2F', '_') | |
puts "Downloading #{url}" | |
RestClient.get(url) do |resp| | |
File.open(fn, "w") { |f| f.write(resp) } | |
end | |
end |
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