A dotnet core tool based on C# to download all your certificates from the Pluralsight video training platform.
Every time when you finish a video course on Pluralsight you earn a certificate. The certificates are available as PDF. To download your certificate you can review your history and click on the icon on the left side of each row. The default name is "certificate", which needs to be renamed for each download. That is fine for a few certificates but can be really time-consuming for many certificates. That is why I created this tool and shared it here on PluralsightCertificateDownloader on GitHub by N7K4.
git clone https://github.com/N7K4/PluralsightCertificateDownloader.git ~/ws/PluralsightCertificateDownloader
cd ~/ws/PluralsightCertificateDownloader
The ~ is the shortcut for your home directory. In Windows it is something like C:\Users\YOURNAME.
Open your favorite web browser, e.g. Chrome, navigate to https://app.pluralsight.com/library/history, log-in if needed. Right click on the page choose "Save as ..." and pick a folder where you want to save the website. In my case I would pick ~/ws/PluralsightCertificateDownloader/downloads/history.html.
The HTML file and a folder with the name (extended with _files) will be created and the page is saved.
On the History page, click on icon of one of the finished courses, to open the PDF in a new browser tab.
Open the Developer Tools, on Google Chrome press F12 and navigate to the Tab Network and set the Filter to All, press Ctrl + R to send the request again. In the call stack there will be a new line "certificate". Right Click on the line to open the context menu.
In the context menu choose the entry Copy -> Copy as cURL (bash) and paste the clipboard in a new text file. In the pasted text search for PsJwt-production and copy everything between the = to the ;, that is your personal JWT token.
The JWT looks like a hash:
abcdefghijklmoabcdefghijklmoabcdefgh.abcdefghijklmoabcdefghijklmoabcdefghijklmoabcdefghijklmoabcdefghijklmoabcdefghijklmoabcdefghijklmoabcdefghijklm.
abcdefghijklmoabcdefghijklmoabcdefghij-1234
The JWT is like your Login-Data! Take it with care! Do not publishing it and do not share it with others.
dotnet run --project ./PluralsightCertificateDownloader/PluralsightCertificateDownloader.csproj ./downloads/history.html "./downloads/" "YOUR_JWT_TOKEN"
The JWT token will be in the history of your terminal! The programm should be adapted that it will ask the user for the JWT as an secret input.
In the folder ./downloads/ there will be the list of certificates in the format yyyy-MM-dd-NAME-OF-VIDEO.pdf.
Simplified HTML of a single row of the history. I dropped the img src and the svg path to make the html more readable.
<div data-css-prsp0g="">
<div data-css-uunkbn="" style="flex: 4 1 0%;">
<a class="certificateIcon---H3J5h"
href="https://app.pluralsight.com/learner/user/courses/getting-started-terraform/certificate"
target="_blank"><img class="iconCertificate---3k28L" src="..."></a>
</div>
<div data-css-uunkbn="" style="flex: 40 1 0%;">
<a href="/library/courses/getting-started-terraform"
class="tableCourseLink---1pW0K">Terraform - Getting Started</a>
</div>
<div data-css-uunkbn="" style="flex: 9 1 0%;">Course</div>
<div data-css-uunkbn="" style="flex: 9 1 0%;"><time datetime="PT3H30M21S">3h 30m</time></div>
<div data-css-uunkbn="" style="flex: 9 1 0%;"><time datetime="PT12621.9844220S">3h 30m</time></div>
<div data-css-uunkbn="" style="flex: 15 1 0%;">
<div class="tableProgressBarContainer---26vee">
<div class="progress-bar progress-bar--green progress-bar--border-radius-medium"
aria-label="Percent Watched: 100">
<div class="progress-bar__inner" style="width: 100%;"></div>
</div>
</div>100%
</div>
<div data-css-uunkbn="" style="flex: 10 1 0%;"><time datetime="01-28-2020">Jan 28, 2020</time></div>
<div data-css-uunkbn="" class="tableContentContextMenu---2sEbd" style="flex: 4 1 0%;">
<div class="contextMenu---1XRh4">
<button data-css-z6g59z="" title="More Options">
<div data-css-otejxm="" aria-label="More Options">
<svg role="img" aria-label="more icon" viewBox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<path d="..."></path>
</svg></div>
</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>Inside the HTML there is a a with the class certificateIcon---H3J5h, here you can find the download link to the PDF of your certificate.
Additional in the HTML block there are three time elements with the class datetime, the last one is formated as MM-dd-yyy and is the date when the certificated was earned.
The history site on Pluralsight is protected.
- When you download it via
curlorwgetyou will see some obfuscated HTML. - When you
view the sourcecodeof the website inside the browser and try tocopy & pasteit to a new file, you will loose all brackets.
In both cases the downloaded HTML is not ready to use it for this tool. So you have to open the history in the browser and choose "Save As ...".
