Lingua.com Lessons Fetcher

This repository contains a Selenium script that fetches lessons from the https://lingua.com/ website.

Specifically, it downloads:

1. Lesson texts
2. Lesson audio files
3. Lesson PDFs (with exercises)

Lessons Access

Lignua.com provides free and premium content.

While the premium contains all lessons and audio, the free one is limited to a few lessons in each category, and mostly without audio.

The free content is also available anonymously without logging in.

This script can also act anonymously or with your account credentials. See Providing Credentials below for more info.

Install

$ npm i -g lingua-com-fetcher

To update to the latest version:

$ npm i -g lingua-com-fetcher@latest

Usage

List available languages:

$ lingua-com-fetcher ls

Fetching language list… ✓
Found 16 languages:
code: en, name: english
code: es, name: spanish
...

Download lessons for a language:

$ lingua-com-fetcher fetch <lang> <path>

For example, to fetch lessons for the Spanish language into outdir directory:

$ lingua-com-fetcher fetch es outdir

Fetching language list… ✓
Logging in as "username"… ✓
Discovering lessons for "Spanish"… ✓
Found sections:
  "Level A1" with 14 lessons
  "Level A2" with 30 lessons
  "Level B1" with 45 lessons
  "Level B2" with 23 lessons
Fetching lessons...
  Section: "Level A1"
    Lesson "01":        TXT ✓   PDF ✓   MP3 ✓
    Lesson "02":        TXT ✓   PDF ✓   MP3 ✓
...

Selective downloading

If you don't need to download everything, you can use --select option to choose what to fetch.

For example, this command:

$ lingua-com-fetcher fetch es outdir --select txt pdf

will skip MP3s and will only download texts and PDFs.

Providing Credentials

If you create a file called lingua-com-secret.json, it will be used to log you in:

{
  "username": "Your-Lingua-Com-Username",
  "password": "Your-Lingua-Com-Password"
}

If placed in the current directory, it will be read automatically. You can also provide its path via the --secret option:

$ lingua-com-fetcher --secret path/to/your/secret.json fetch businessenglish outdir

CLI reference

$ lingua-com-fetcher --help:

lingua-com-fetcher <command>

Commands:
  lingua-com-fetcher ls                   Lists available languages.
  lingua-com-fetcher fetch <lang> <path>  Fetches lessons for the <lang> into
                                          <path>.

Options:
  --help     Show help                                                 [boolean]
  --version  Show version number                                       [boolean]

$ lingua-com-fetcher fetch --help:

lingua-com-fetcher fetch <lang> <path>

Fetches lessons for the <lang> into <path>.

Positionals:
  lang  Lessons language. Can be either two-letter code or language name as it's
        shown by the `ls` command.                           [string] [required]
  path  Lessons output directory.                            [string] [required]

Options:
      --help     Show help                                             [boolean]
      --version  Show version number                                   [boolean]
      --select   Select what type of files to download. If omitted, then all
                 files.                   [array] [choices: "txt", "pdf", "mp3"]
  -s, --secret   Path to the file with your Lingua.com credentials.
                                    [string] [default: "lingua-com-secret.json"]
      --dryRun   Don't write anything, only show what's gonna be done
                                                      [boolean] [default: false]