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.

Requires Python 3.6+

1. Clone the repository

git clone [email protected]:ed-cooper/lecture-hoarder.git

2. Go to the install directory

cd lecture-hoarder

3. Install the dependencies

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Inside your installation directory, run:

python3 lecturehoarder

Podcasts are downloaded to ~/Documents/Lectures.

Lecture Hoarder can be configured by placing a lecture-hoarder-settings.yaml file in your home directory - e.g. /home/john/lecture-hoarder-settings.yaml on Linux.

Configuration options include:

• Changing the download directory
• Excluding certain courses from being downloaded
• Pre-specifying a username / password combination
• And more

For information on configuration, please see the wiki page.

Podcasts take a long time to download, so the first run may take a while 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.