Course Hunt

CourseHunters.net is a website that provides visitors with free video lessons in Russian for programming, whether we're talking about frontend, backend, system programming, marketing, 3D video, graphics, game development, CMS, blockchain or something else.

Course Hunt is a desktop utility that can detect and download videos from this website with minimal effort on your behalf. Designed with the Electron framework, the tool has a simple and sophisticated-looking interface, where it's only necessary to type or paste the CourseHunters link.

The application automatically identifies the corresponding videos, populating a list with all lesson numbers and descriptions. At the moment, it's not possible to pick the lessons you want to download while excluding anything else, so you have to download everything.

After clicking the "Download All" button, Course Hunt asks for a saving directory on the disk. It creates a folder with the name of the course, placing all video lessons inside. No confirmation message is shown at the end of the task, and the progress cannot be inspected in the main window during downloads. You have to head over to the selected folder to see if it worked.

Unfortunately, Course Hunt failed in its attempts to download some videos in our tests although it didn't indicate any errors. Nevertheless, such problems should be expected since the tool hasn't reached stable development stage so far. This means that there's plenty of room for improvements.

No configuration settings are available, which shouldn't be an issue for casual users interested in quickly downloading programming courses from CourseHunters.net. The app fetches videos swiftly in our tests while remaining light on system resources consumption. It's free and open-source, released under the MIT license. Contributors are welcomed on the GitHub repository page of the software product.