kit-ilias-downloader's Introduction

KIT-ILIAS-downloader

Download content from ILIAS. That includes:

files
exercise sheets and solutions
Opencast lectures
forum posts (beta)

Installation

Go to the releases and get the executable for your operating system. Alternatively compile from source: (to get the latest updates)

$ git clone https://github.com/FliegendeWurst/KIT-ILIAS-downloader
$ cd KIT-ILIAS-downloader
$ cargo install --path .

Usage

Use -o <directory> to specify the download directory. Username and password have to be provided every time the program is run.

Only content on your personal desktop will be downloaded.

$ KIT-ILIAS-downloader --help
KIT-ILIAS-downloader 0.2.14

USAGE:
    KIT-ILIAS-downloader [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] --output <output>

FLAGS:
        --content-tree    Use content tree (slow but thorough)
    -f                    Re-download already present files
    -t, --forum           Download forum content
    -h, --help            Prints help information
    -n, --no-videos       Do not download Opencast videos
    -s, --skip-files      Do not download files
    -V, --version         Prints version information
    -v                    Verbose logging (print objects downloaded)

OPTIONS:
    -j, --jobs <jobs>        Parallel download jobs [default: 1]
    -o, --output <output>    Output directory
    -p, --proxy <proxy>      Proxy, e.g. socks5h://127.0.0.1:1080 [default: ""]

.iliasignore

.gitignore syntax can be used in a .iliasignore file: (located in the download folder)

# example 1: only download a single course
/*/
!/InsertCourseHere/
# example 2: only download files related to one tutorial
/Course/Tutorien/*/
!/Course/Tutorien/Tut* 3/

.iliaslogin

If you don't want to enter your credentials every time you run the program, you can instead save your username and password in a file (.iliaslogin):