fedora_course_scraper

Scape the videos from a school's site backed by usefedora.com. This will download all video lessons for offline learning.

##Compatibility:

This has only been tested on Mac OSX 10.9, though other systems will probably work as well.

##Dependencies:

• homebrew
• npm
• phantomjs
• casperjs

If npm is not yet installed, use homebrew (brew.sh), a package manager for the Mac.

$ brew install npm

To install phantomjs, use homebrew:

$ brew install phantomjs

To install casperjs, use npm (to get the latest beta version not yet available on homebrew).

$ npm install -g casperjs

Configuration

You must modify the variables contained at the top of the course_scraper.coffee file:

CONFIGURATION_KEY	USE
FEDORA_SCHOOL_URL	Entry point of the script and URL of the school whose course(s) you are scraping
COURSE_TITLE	Full name of the course you'd like to scrape
EMAIL	Your email address
PASSWORD	Your password
DOWNLOAD_DIR	Absolute path to folder that will contain downloaded files

Usage

Downloading requires tweaking some default casperjs command line options: Use without these flags will cause the downloads to fail!

casperjs course_scraper.coffee --ssl-protocol=any --ignore-ssl-errors=true --cookies-file=cookies.txt

The script will only download files that are not present. Should a file fail to download (0 bytes), delete it and re-run the script. This may be improved later to automatically scan the directly upon completion and re-download files that were unsuccessful. But for now, this is a manual process.

License and Liability

Use of this script to facilitate the violation of copyright law or for other illegal purposes is strictly forbidden, and you will not hold me liable if you use this script to those ends.

The source code is released under the terms of the MIT License, which is available for your perusal in LICENSE file in this repository.