lectureDL
Setup:
lectureDL is written in Python 3 and uses the Selenium library coupled with ChromeDriver. Note: lectureDL is setup to run on Mac, and will need a little bit of work before it reliably runs on Windows.
The easiest way to install selenium is with pip:
pip3 install selenium
To run lectureDL, download the zip file for this repository and execute the script with Python 3 from inside the directory:
python3 lectureDL.py
lectureDL can be run with the following command-line arguments:
-vto download videos-ato download audio-allto download all lectures available-path <download directory>to change download directory inside home folder (eg. on a Macpython3 lectureDL.py -path "Lecture recordings"will save lectures inside/Users/username/Lecture recordings-clearconfigto clear the config file (ie. forget user credentials and reset download folder)
These commands can be combined, for example python3 lectureDL.py -v -all will download all lecture videos available, which is the fastest way of running the script if you have your credentials saved in the configuration file. However, -v -a will not download both the video and the audio yet!
Note: I'd recommend hiding subjects that are not active this semester because the script may try to find lecture recordings for past semesters.
What it does:
- Logs in to Unimelb LMS system
- Builds list of subjects
- For each subject, navigate through to echo system
- Builds list of lectures
- For each lecture, builds filename based on subject number and date and downloads
Features:
- Assigns week numbers based on date and appends lecture numbers if there are more than one lecture per week - formatted eg. "LING30001 Week 1 Lecture 2.m4v"
- Skips if file already exists
- Can download either video files or audio files
- Allows user to choose specific subjects and to only download lectures for specific weeks
- Can save username and password in configuration file, if the user wants