impartus-video-downloader

README

impartus video downloader

• impartus video downloader
  • Demo
  • How to use
    • Selecting lectures
  • Configuration

Demo

How to use

• Have ffmpeg installed on your pc and have it in your PATH.
• Download the latest release and extract it.
• Add your username/email and password in config.json.
• Make suitable changes to the config as per your needs. Read here for more information on configuration.
• Execute the binary.

Selecting lectures

When prompted to enter a range do the following

• Enter the numbers shown on the left (not the lecture number after "LEC")
• If you want lectures from 1 to 10, this is how your input will be 1 10. The range is inclusive.
• If you want only 1 lecture say 5, your input should be 5 5.
• Make sure you add space between the start and end.

Configuration

The comments beside the fields tell the allowed values.

{
    "username": "uid@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in",
    "password": "password",
    "baseUrl": "http://bitshyd.impartus.com/api", // Accepted values: "http://bitshyd.impartus.com/api", "http://172.16.3.20/api"
    "quality": "720", // Accepted values: "720", "450", "144"
    "views": "both", // Accepted values: "left", "right", "both"
    "downloadLocation": "./downloads", // Directory where the final file is stored to
    "tempDirLocation": "./.temp", // Directory to store the chunks (directory can be deleted when the program is not running)
    "slides": false, // Accepted values: true, false to download the slides from impartus,
    "numWorkers": 5 // Number of workers to use set this to 1 if you want to download the videos sequentially. Setting this to 0 will use a default number that is 5
}