The Ultimate Script to download SharePoint Conference 2014 Videos AND slides!
After everyone posted about 10 script versions to download the SharePoint Conference 2014 videos I decided to add some extra value before releasing mine! This is what my script does:
- Downloads all the SPC14 Sessions and Slides
- Groups them by folders
- Makes sure no errors come up due to Illegal File names.
- If you stop the script and restart in the middle, it will start where it left off and not from beginning.
The Total size will be a bit under 70GB.
At the end, it will look something like this:
And inside every folder (provided slides have been added by Channel9) you will have both the .mp4 and the .pptx!
Here is a preview of the script, but DO NOT COPY PASTE IT FROM UNDER HERE, the WordPress plugin messed up some syntax. Instead OPEN IT HERE: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/PowerShell-Script-to-all-04e92a63
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UPDATE: 17 March 2014
– Added a TRIM on the file/folder name (Thanks Dan Holme!)
– Added the Download of the text file that contains the description of the session (Thanks VyperWare)
– Added Quotes to test if file already exists (Thanks Marat Bakirov)
Update1 (12 March): Also added (“) and (*) as illegal characters so they don’t break SPC3991! Thanks > @maxmelcher
</pre> # Originally published at https://gist.github.com/nzthiago/5736907 # I Customized it for SPC14 with slides # If you like it, leave me a comment # If you don't like it, complain to Github. :) [Environment]::CurrentDirectory=(Get-Location -PSProvider FileSystem).ProviderPath $rss = (new-object net.webclient) # Grab the RSS feed for the MP4 downloads # SharePoint Conference 2014 Videos $a = ($rss.downloadstring("http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/SharePoint-Conference/2014/RSS/mp4high")) $b = ($rss.downloadstring("http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/SharePoint-Conference/2014/RSS/slides")) #other qualities for the videos only. Choose the one you want! # $a = ($rss.downloadstring("http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/SharePoint-Conference/2014/RSS/mp4")) #$a = ($rss.downloadstring("http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/SharePoint-Conference/2014/RSS/mp3")) #Preferably enter something not too long to not have filename problems! cut and paste them afterwards $downloadlocation = "C:\spc14" if (-not (Test-Path $downloadlocation)) { Write-Host "Folder $fpath dosen't exist. Creating it..." New-Item $downloadlocation -type directory } set-location $downloadlocation #Download all the slides $b.rss.channel.item | foreach{ $code = $_.comments.split("/") | select -last 1 # Grab the URL for the PPTX file $urlpptx = New-Object System.Uri($_.enclosure.url) $filepptx = $code + "-" + $_.creator + " - " + $_.title.Replace(":", "-").Replace("?", "").Replace("/", "-").Replace("<", "").Replace("|", "").Replace('"',"").Replace("*","") $filepptx = $filepptx.substring(0, [System.Math]::Min(120, $filepptx.Length)) $filepptx = $filepptx.trim() $filepptx = $filepptx + ".pptx" if ($code -ne "") { $folder = $code + " - " + $_.title.Replace(":", "-").Replace("?", "").Replace("/", "-").Replace("<", "").Replace("|", "").Replace('"',"").Replace("*","") $folder = $folder.substring(0, [System.Math]::Min(100, $folder.Length)) $folder = $folder.trim() } else { $folder = "NoCodeSessions" } if (-not (Test-Path $folder)) { Write-Host "Folder $folder dosen't exist. Creating it..." New-Item $folder -type directory } #text description from session . Thank you VaperWare $OutFile = New-Item -type file "$($downloadlocation)\$($Folder)\$($Code.trim()).txt" -Force $Category = "" ; $Content = "" $_.category | foreach {$Category += $_ + ","} $Content = $_.title.trim() + "`r`n" + $_.creator + "`r`n" + $_.summary.trim() + "`r`n" + "`r`n" + $Category.Substring(0,$Category.Length -1) add-content $OutFile $Content # Make sure the PowerPoint file doesn't already exist if (!(test-path "$downloadlocation\$folder\$filepptx")) { # Echo out the file that's being downloaded $filepptx $wc = (New-Object System.Net.WebClient) # Download the MP4 file $wc.DownloadFile($urlpptx, "$downloadlocation\$filepptx") mv $filepptx $folder } } #download all the mp4 # Walk through each item in the feed $a.rss.channel.item | foreach{ $code = $_.comments.split("/") | select -last 1 # Grab the URL for the MP4 file $url = New-Object System.Uri($_.enclosure.url) # Create the local file name for the MP4 download $file = $code + "-" + $_.creator + "-" + $_.title.Replace(":", "-").Replace("?", "").Replace("/", "-").Replace("<", "").Replace("|", "").Replace('"',"").Replace("*","") $file = $file.substring(0, [System.Math]::Min(120, $file.Length)) $file = $file.trim() $file = $file + ".mp4" if ($code -ne "") { $folder = $code + " - " + $_.title.Replace(":", "-").Replace("?", "").Replace("/", "-").Replace("<", "").Replace("|", "").Replace('"',"").Replace("*","") $folder = $folder.substring(0, [System.Math]::Min(100, $folder.Length)) $folder = $folder.trim() } else { $folder = "NoCodeSessions" } if (-not (Test-Path $folder)) { Write-Host "Folder $folder) dosen't exist. Creating it..." New-Item $folder -type directory } # Make sure the MP4 file doesn't already exist if (!(test-path "$folder\$file")) { # Echo out the file that's being downloaded $file $wc = (New-Object System.Net.WebClient) # Download the MP4 file $wc.DownloadFile($url, "$downloadlocation\$file") mv $file $folder } } <pre>