How to download files from Coursera online courses using any grabber or any other online method

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I have registered for one of the online courses on coursera.org. When the course is completed there will be around 60 or more .pdf slides and corresponding video lectures. I tried downloading using Internet Download Manager grabber but it failed.

What is the most efficient way to download the .pdfs etc?

Best Answer

You can use the "Down Them All" extension available for Firefox. I use it too - saves a lot of time.

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The following steps can be used:

Navigate to Files page on Facebook using your web-browser.
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```
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