Harvard made available some politics courses entirely for free available on edX which made me nosy to check out other courses in the platform and I’m finding plenty of very interesting courses in there, is there a way to bulk download the courses?
https://github.com/rehmatworks/edx-downloader
If this isn’t allowed here then I apologize and just delete this.
Thank you so much!
There’s something that doesn’t sit well with me about “pirating” educational content. What’s wrong with going through the site? It’s already free.
Alternatively, check out MIT open courseware.
I don’t think they’re trying to do anything illegal. They just want to do it faster and in bulk. Still from the original source that is providing it for free. Not redistributing. Looks like someone linked a tool that might do that.
I feel you. That’s why I put “pirate” in quotes. My thing is if it’s meant to be bulk downloaded, it would be set up that way. I don’t take that stance with movies, games, etc. It’s something that just doesn’t feel good with me. Probably having my exams posted on chegg 🤣
It’s not pirating, there’s no way to claim a Harvard professor was paid by me and sell it others to pass as my course (also who would even fall or do that? you dont need to go this low to sell courses, people would just straight use AI), also I’m talking about the free courses not paid ones, I know you put it in between quote but I can’t get why in any way that could fit into piracy definition. (They also make it easy to download stuff from website anyway but it’s too time consuming to download things individually) - don’t take this as rude I’m just explaining myself to you to help you understand why I asked this and you saying that was quite confusing
Anyway, to tell you why since I’m assuming you are wondering why someone would do it, first is for convenience of bulking download as the other reply from someone else answering you told you, automation saves time, second Telecoms in my area is shitty so I only pay limited mobile data plans and use public internet from coffee shops to download things so I can access them at home without spending my limited internet data.
Don’t worry about it, I didn’t take it as rude. I hope you didn’t take my comment as rude either
Not necessarily but I was confused between rude or I missed something or just morbid curiosity of why, but don’t worry at least now it’s cleared up =)
