This project is very WIP and some things might not work correctly. If you encounter any problems, issue a bug report or create a pull request.

Keats Downloader

This is a project intended to automatically download all videos in a course and store them locally. Benefits include:

• Being able to playback videos at non-turtle speed (more than 2x)
• Being able to use subtitles as a semi-accurate transcript
• Being able to watch high-resolution video streams with no buffering
• Not having your lectures interrupted because the website is down

Requirements

1. To install the python modules used by the project run the following in the directory.

   pip3 install -r requirements.txt
   

2. Download the chrome selenium driver here. Extract and place it in the main directory such that the directory looks like this

   ./selenium/chromedriver.exe
   ./selenium/chromedriver/
   

3. Download FFMpeg here. Copy the contents of the bin folder so that there are 3 files in the main directory.

   ./ffmpeg.exe
   ./ffplay.exe
   ./ffprobe.exe
   

Basic usage

1. Create a courses.txt file with the urls to all courses you want to download separated by newlines. Its contents should look something like this:

   https://keats.kcl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=AAAAA
   https://keats.kcl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=BBBBB
   https://keats.kcl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=CCCCC
   https://keats.kcl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=DDDDD
   

2. Run main.py through terminal:

   python main.py
   

You still need to have logged in to your account to use this.

Reviews

actual life saver -Chirag