bucherfa / bbb-slides

Download presentation slides from BigBlueButton and save them as PDF

BBB Slides

Usage

./main.sh <bbb slides url> [start slide] [end slide]

script depends on curl, rsvg-convert and pdfunite

Get presentation slides url

• in the bbb room must be a presentation slide present (no screen share)
• right-click on the current slide, and select Copy Image Link (Firefox)
• remove trailing number from url, that the url ends on .../svg/

Notes

• url should end with a slash
• first slide has the index 1
• start/end slide arguments are optional
• start slide argument but no end slide argument means starting at provided index and getting all slides after that
• generated pdf will appear as out.pdf next to the script

Examples

# getting all slides
./main.sh https://example.com/bigbluebutton/presentation/<long id>/svg/

# getting the first 10 slides
./main.sh https://example.com/bigbluebutton/presentation/<long id>/svg/ 1 10

# getting all slides starting at slide 10
./main.sh https://example.com/bigbluebutton/presentation/<long id>/svg/ 10