lushl9301 / ntu-recording-downloader

A python command line tool for downloading lecture recordings, with order.

NTU-Recording-Downloader

A python command line tool for downloading lecture recordings, with order.

Requirements

python3

pip install urllib
pip install beautifulsoup4

curl

apt-get install curl # ubuntu
brew install curl # os x
Install Linux # windows

Usage

1. Go to NTULearn, click one of your courses

2. On the left of the page, select "Recorded Lectures"

3. Find the RSS feed for this course:

   For example: 15S2-CE3006-CPE301-DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS MP4 Podcast Press "Get the RSS feed"

4. Copy the URL of this page.

   It should be in a format like http://presentur.ntu.edu.sg/podcast/rss/rss5456_2.xml

   Please pay attention that you should copy url that ends with "_2.xml". This is for mp4 recording.

5. Run the following command in your terminal

python3 get_video.py http://presentur.ntu.edu.sg/podcast/rss/rss5456_2.xml

The progress will be shown. It may take quite a long time.

Or you could run as the command in silence

python3 get_video.py http://presentur.ntu.edu.sg/podcast/rss/rss5456_2.xml > /dev/null &

Filename

You can rename the file by editing the code

Or you can use the following command. (Just for your information)

rename 's/(\d+)\s[\w\-\s]+/nameyouwang\ $1/' *.mp4