Context: I am already using coursera-dl to download the videos and it works great, but I missed an analogous tool for the assignments.
GREAT NEWS!
I have just found a way to download all the assignment files from the coursera-notebook hub.
This saved me hours of painful single file downloading:
(adapted from here )
Go to the home of the coursera-notebook hub
Create a new python notebook
Execute !tar cvfz allfiles.tar.gz * in a cell
Download the archive !
Enjoy!
If the resulting archive is too big and you can’t download it
Open the python notebook where you executed last command and execute the following in a cell:
!split -b 200m allfiles.tar.gz allfiles.tar.gz.part.
This will split the archive into 200Mb blocks that you can download without a problem (if there is still a problem reduce the size by changing 200m to a lower value)
Then when you have downloaded all the split files reunite them on your system using the following command line (in a linux environment, or use cmder if you are on Windows):
cat allfiles.tar.gz.part.* > allfiles.tar.gz
PS: This is in fact valid in any Jupyter-notebook hub