plucena24/cisco_live_downloader

Cisco Live Downloader

About

cisco_live_downloader is a script that logs into your Cisco Live 365 account and downloads all of the mp4 and pdf files from any sessions you have marked under your 'interests'. By default, only the latest Cisco Live event - Cisco Live 2015 San Diego - will be downloaded. This is configurable through the command line by using the '-e' or '--event' parameter.

Uses multiple threads to download mp4/pdfs concurrently. By default 20 threads will be spawned, meaning 20 downloads will be kicked off at the time time. The number of threads is also configurable by using the '-c' or '--concurrent' parameter.

The downloads are efficient, by chunking the downloaded files every 1024MB and writing to disk. None of the previously downloaded chunks are kept in memory - similar to a web browser download.

Requires two third party libraries - BeautifulSoup and requests.

pip install BeautifulSoup

pip install requests

For efficiency, the script checks the configured directorty (current directorty by default) for any existing .mp4s that have already been downloaded. This is to prevent having to re-download a file that has been downloaded during a previous execution of the script. If for example you ran the script, but added more sessions under your 'interests'.

Installation

Prerequisites

You need:

• BeautifulSoup
• requests

Usage

Note: For Windows users - please use doble "\\" as path separators:

python cisco_live_downloader.py -u username -p password -e "2015 San Diego" -d "C:\\users\\admin\\cisco_live\\"

Or just use "/"

python cisco_live_downloader.py -u username -p password -e "2015 San Diego" -d C:/users/admin/cisco_live/

python cisco_live_downloader.py --username admin -password pass

python cisco_live_downloader.py -u admin -p password -d /root/Downloads/ -c 8

Here are some examples of the nomenclature used in past Cisco Live events:

2015 Milan

2014 San Francisco

2013 Orlando

cisco_live_downloader's Issues

Enhance concurrency.

Enhance concurrency - fork out chunks of multiple threads to different python processes, such that multiple cores are used at the time time, yet still use threading as this is an I/O bound program.

Enhance detection of existing files.

Enhance detection of existing files on the directory specified. Currently if a file with the same name as a video in the interests is detected, the download is skipped such that its no re-downloaded. However, the video will be skipped even if what exist on the directory is a partial download - if for example the connection was lost on a previous execution.