Step 3: Run the API Scraper

1. In the Scraper GUI, select API-JSON-Scraper as the Scraper Type.
2. Select the Text File you created in Step 2.
3. Select a Save Directory where you want the database to be stored.
4. Click Login Account to authenticate your Educative session. A browser will open—log in, and once authenticated, close the browser window.
5. Click Start Scraper. The scraper will use internal APIs to download the courses cleanly into a local database.

Step 4: Scraping Public Content (Answers, Blog, Newsletter)

If you want to download free public content from Educative (e.g., Blog posts, Edpresso Answers, Newsletters):

1. Ensure your text file contains the desired public URLs (these are also categorized in the Excel file generated in Step 1).
2. In the Scraper GUI, select Public-Content-Scraper as the Scraper Type.
3. Select your Text File and Save Directory.
4. Click Start Scraper. The tool will use clean internal JSON APIs to fetch public pages and store them in the database identically to standard courses.

Step 5: Extract and Download Assets

Once the courses or public content are scraped, use the GUI to run Extract Assets, followed by Download Assets. This step will fetch all embedded images, SVGs, and files referenced in the content.

⚠️ Important Notes & Tips

• Overwrite Option: If you enable "Overwrite" to force redownloads, note that scraping will begin exactly from the topic link provided in your text file. Because the links generated in the Excel file are not guaranteed to be the very first lesson of a course, using them with Overwrite may result in only partially overwriting the course from that mid-point onward. To overwrite an entire course, ensure you manually provide its true first topic link.
• Auto Resume: Automatically restarts the scraper process up to 3 times if it crashes due to errors, reading the log to resume from the exact failed URL.
• DB Skipping: Independently of Auto Resume, the DB inherently tracks topic status. If you restart the scraper, it natively skips any already-downloaded topics to seamlessly resume from leftovers.
• Auto Fix URL: Automatically updates your text file to remove URLs that have been fully scraped, preventing unnecessary rescraping.
• SeleniumBase(uc mode): Runs the browser in an undetected mode to bypass anti-bot challenges (like Cloudflare) during login. Enable this if you get blocked.
• Retry Failed URLs: Used by the Asset Downloader to specifically retry downloading any images or static assets that failed during previous runs.
• Proxies: You can configure IP proxies natively in the GUI if needed.
• Headless Mode: If you do not want to see the browser window during operations, choose the headless option.