Automated tool to scrape the University of Manchester video portal and download all available lecture podcasts for your course.
Note: Requires valid University of Manchester username and password
Lecture Hoarder relies on an unstable web interface that is liable to change.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see the license. The author accepts no liability for any loss of data caused by this program. Please remember to back your files up regularly.
First, copy the file settings-template.py to settings.py
Then, open it in your editor of your choice, and set the following 3 variables:
username = "Your username" # The username you would usually use for My Manchester
password = "Your password" # The accompanying password
base_dir = "~/Documents/Lectures" # Where to download files to
concurrent_downloads = 4 # How many podcasts to download at the same time (Increases speed)Then, install the packages listed in requirements.txt.
Finally, execute the file called run.py (requires Python 3.6+).
Podcasts take a long time to download, so expect the first run to take over an hour to complete.
If you interrupt the program while downloading, you may find .partial files in
the output directory. They are incomplete downloads and can safely be ignored/deleted.
The program will only download podcasts that you have not already downloaded, meaning that any subsequent runs (provided you don't change the download directory) will be much faster.