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:

• -v to download videos
• -a to download audio
• -all to download all lectures available
• -path <download directory> to change download directory inside home folder (eg. on a Mac python3 lectureDL.py -path "Lecture recordings" will save lectures inside /Users/username/Lecture recordings
• -clearconfig to 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