# Method to Download Any Skillshare Premium Course using Google Colab (no Skillshare account needed)

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/method-to-download-any-skillshare-premium-course-using-google-colab-no-skillshare-account-needed/73493>\
**Category:** Tools & Scripts\
**Tags:** tips-tricks\
**Created:** [March 15, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/method-to-download-any-skillshare-premium-course-using-google-colab-no-skillshare-account-needed/73493 "2020-03-15T13:17:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![Sajin\_Haider](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/sajin_haider/32/98085_2.png) [@Sajin\_Haider](https://onehack.st/u/Sajin_Haider)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 8:54am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/method-to-download-any-skillshare-premium-course-using-google-colab-no-skillshare-account-needed/73493/210 "2021-08-19T08:54:14Z")

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thank you ,you helped me a lot

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**Author:** ![HustlerWolf](https://onehack.st/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@HustlerWolf](https://onehack.st/u/HustlerWolf)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 10:14am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/method-to-download-any-skillshare-premium-course-using-google-colab-no-skillshare-account-needed/73493/211 "2021-08-20T10:14:37Z")

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@asr

I tried all the steps perfectly by initially removing the txt extension on both files and then uploading it to the collab folder. I get this error:

rm: cannot remove ‘/root/.Skillshare-DL/magic.pyc’: No such file or directory  
mv: cannot stat ‘magic.py’: No such file or directory

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**Author:** ![asr](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/asr/32/17998_2.png) [@asr](https://onehack.st/u/asr)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/method-to-download-any-skillshare-premium-course-using-google-colab-no-skillshare-account-needed/73493/212 "2021-08-20T15:06:43Z")

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Please make sure that u ran Step 2 ( _Run This Cell to Install Skillshare-DL Requirements_ ) before updating cookie.

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**Author:** ![Exc\_Labs](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/exc_labs/32/29438_2.png) [@Exc\_Labs](https://onehack.st/u/Exc_Labs)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2021, 3:33pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/method-to-download-any-skillshare-premium-course-using-google-colab-no-skillshare-account-needed/73493/213 "2021-08-22T15:33:41Z")

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I had the same issue. pls help

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**Author:** ![Vegas](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/vegas/32/88527_2.png) [@Vegas](https://onehack.st/u/Vegas)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/method-to-download-any-skillshare-premium-course-using-google-colab-no-skillshare-account-needed/73493/214 "2021-08-28T18:34:06Z")

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> [@asr](#):
>
> `!mv skillshare.py.txt '/root/.Skillshare-DL/skillshare.py'`

This issue is showing

Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “/root/.Skillshare-DL/dl.py”, line 2, in   
from skillshare import Skillshare, splash  
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘skillshare’

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**Author:** ![waqas](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/waqas/32/31435_2.png) [@waqas](https://onehack.st/u/waqas)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2021, 11:56pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/method-to-download-any-skillshare-premium-course-using-google-colab-no-skillshare-account-needed/73493/215 "2021-08-28T23:56:06Z")

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Same issue on my side as well

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**Author:** ![sqageek](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/sqageek/32/18984_2.png) [@sqageek](https://onehack.st/u/sqageek)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 4:01am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/method-to-download-any-skillshare-premium-course-using-google-colab-no-skillshare-account-needed/73493/218 "2021-08-29T04:01:18Z")

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I tried step2, then moved latest files as mentioned above. Now, I am getting the below error

```auto
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/.Skillshare-DL/dl.py", line 16, in <module>
    main()
  File "/root/.Skillshare-DL/dl.py", line 11, in main
    dl.download_course_by_url(course_url)
  File "/root/.Skillshare-DL/skillshare.py", line 32, in download_course_by_url
    self.download_course_by_class_id(m.group(1))
  File "/root/.Skillshare-DL/skillshare.py", line 75, in download_course_by_class_id
    raise Exception('Failed to read video ID from data')

```

Exception: Failed to read video ID from data  
The below is the course which I am trying to download  
1240993655

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**Author:** ![ZAC](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/zac/32/40362_2.png) [@ZAC](https://onehack.st/u/ZAC)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/method-to-download-any-skillshare-premium-course-using-google-colab-no-skillshare-account-needed/73493/219 "2021-09-03T16:50:57Z")

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It was working perfectly a few days ago but now it is displaying some error.

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**Author:** ![hmlutfor](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/hmlutfor/32/80700_2.png) [@hmlutfor](https://onehack.st/u/hmlutfor)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/method-to-download-any-skillshare-premium-course-using-google-colab-no-skillshare-account-needed/73493/220 "2021-09-17T17:33:27Z")

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Getting this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/dl.py”, line 50, in   
main()  
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/dl.py”, line 11, in main  
dl.download\_course\_by\_url(course\_url)  
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/skillshare.py”, line 29, in download\_course\_by\_url  
self.download\_course\_by\_class\_id(m.group(1))  
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/skillshare.py”, line 32, in download\_course\_by\_class\_id  
data = self.fetch\_course\_data\_by\_class\_id(class\_id=class\_id)  
File “/root/.skillshare-1hack/skillshare.py”, line 69, in fetch\_course\_data\_by\_class\_id  
assert res.status\_code == 200, ‘Fetch error, code == {}’.format(res.status\_code)  
AssertionError: Fetch error, code == 403

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**Author:** ![waqas](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/waqas/32/31435_2.png) [@waqas](https://onehack.st/u/waqas)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 9:58pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/method-to-download-any-skillshare-premium-course-using-google-colab-no-skillshare-account-needed/73493/221 "2021-09-19T21:58:36Z")

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Any update on this trick? Waiting eagerly.

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**Author:** ![Aina](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/aina/32/167469_2.png) [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2021, 9:37am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/method-to-download-any-skillshare-premium-course-using-google-colab-no-skillshare-account-needed/73493/226 "2021-10-18T09:37:15Z")

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