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https://github.com/jstrieb/panopto-download
Script to facilitate batch downloading of lecture videos from Panopto
https://github.com/jstrieb/panopto-download
panopto python
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Script to facilitate batch downloading of lecture videos from Panopto
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/jstrieb/panopto-download
- Owner: jstrieb
- Created: 2020-02-13T21:45:49.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-08-07T21:09:05.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2023-03-03T09:40:18.286Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: panopto, python
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 905 KB
- Stars: 37
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 2
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# Background & Overview
Students deserve access to course materials, even after completing a course. At
Carnegie Mellon, many lecture videos are recorded and made available online on
[Panopto](https://www.panopto.com/). There is no easy user-interface to
download course videos, but there is a feature where folders of recorded videos
generate RSS feeds.
This script parses Panopto RSS feeds and extracts video URLs for batch
downloading. In general, this project is designed to make it as easy as possible
to download Panopto videos and lectures.
# Quick Start
1. To use the script, clone the repository or download `panopto-video-urls.py`,
and go into the `panopto-download` directory.
```
git clone https://github.com/jstrieb/panopto-download.git && cd panopto-download
```
2. Make sure Python 3 is running (check by running `python --version` or
locating a `python3` binary). Also make sure the `requests` library is
installed -- it may have been installed by another package. To install it
(particularly if seeing a `ModuleNotFoundError`), run the following.
```
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
```
Additionally, if on a system with limited permissions, instead run the
following command. This only installs the dependencies for the local user,
rather than system-wide. In particular, if running the script on the Andrew
servers, students can only install locally since their accounts lack `sudo`
permissions.
```
python3 -m pip install --user -r requirements.txt
```
3. Test that the command works. When run, there should be output (somewhat)
like the following.
```
$ python3 panopto-video-urls.py
usage: panopto-video-urls.py [-h] [-o OUTPUT_FILE] [-x] podcast_url
panopto-video-urls.py: error: the following arguments are required: podcast_url
```
4. Get a Panopto RSS URL. For more information on how to do this, see the next
section.
5. Now, use the script to generate a list of video URLs to download. This can
be saved into a file using the `-o` option, or it can be piped directly into
`xargs` if on a system where it is installed. The latter is my preferred
option. To download all videos from an RSS link, I do the following.
```
python3 panopto-video-urls.py -x "http://" | xargs -L 2 -P 8 curl -q -L
```
The `-L 2` option to `xargs` specifies that it should read two consecutive
lines as arguments to each command that is run (run with `-L 3` if using
cookies), and the `-P 8` option specifies how many processes to run at once.
Using `0` for the number of processes denotes using as many as possible, but
`8` has greater cross-platform compatibility, and is thus used instead.
The `-L` option to `curl` specifies that `curl` should follow redirects until
it gets to the video, and is different from the `-L` option passed to
`xargs`. The `-q` option tells `curl` not to print a progress bar for each
process.
# Getting Panopto RSS Feed URLs
Panopto automatically generates RSS feeds for folders of videos. The links to
these feeds are what is used as input for the script.
1. To get a course or folder's RSS link, first navigate to its folder. One way
to do this is by using the "Shared With Me" link on the left side of the
page.
2. When looking at a list of videos, click the name of the folder ("Location")
on the right to navigate to that folder.
3. Finally, in the top-right corner, there is an RSS button. Click that, and
right click on "Subscribe to RSS" to copy the RSS link.
