Linkedin video download

Author: kaustubhgupta

Python/Linkedin_Video_Downloader/.gitignore

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+# vscode
+.vscode
+
+# file generated
+video.mp4

Python/Linkedin_Video_Downloader/README.md

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+# Linkedin Video Downloader
+This script uses Python requests library to grab the url of the linkedin post provided to get the video url. After getting the url of the video, the file gets saved as video file. A progress bar is displayed showing the current speed, time escaped & time left. The progress bar is implemented using tqdm.
+
+
+# How to use?
+- Install the dependicies required for this scrit (tqdm & requests):
+
+    ```pip install requirements.txt```
+
+- Use this format to download the video:
+
+    ```python app.py <link of post>```
+
+
+# Working Demo
+
+![](preview.gif)

Python/Linkedin_Video_Downloader/app.py

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+from tqdm import tqdm
+import requests
+import html
+import sys
+
+def download(url):
+    source = requests.get(url).text
+    source_cleaned = html.unescape(source).split()
+    for item in source_cleaned:
+        if "dms.licdn.com" in item:
+            download_link = item.split(',')[0].split('"src":')[1][1:-1]
+            r = requests.get(download_link, stream = True) 
+            total_size_in_bytes= int(r.headers.get('content-length', 0))
+            block_size = 1024 #1 Kibibyte
+            progress_bar = tqdm(total=total_size_in_bytes, unit='iB', unit_scale=True)
+            with open('test.mp4', 'wb') as file:
+                for data in r.iter_content(block_size):
+                    progress_bar.update(len(data))
+                    file.write(data)
+            progress_bar.close()
+            if total_size_in_bytes != 0 and progress_bar.n != total_size_in_bytes:
+                print("ERROR, something went wrong")
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    download(sys.argv[1])

Python/Linkedin_Video_Downloader/preview.gif

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+tqdm==4.48.2
+requests==2.24.0