UNIMIB Moodle Scraper

A command like tool to find and download all files (including lecture recording videos) from the Moodle platform of the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca.

The tool should be easily modifiable to work with other Moodle deployments that use Kaltura as video provider, but I don't intend to support other deployments.

Usage

python3 -m venv venv             # create a virtual environment
source venv/bin/activate         # activate the virtual environment
pip install -r requirements.txt  # install the dependencies

python -m unimib_scraper --help  # show the help
# for instance
python -m unimib_scraper -d ./downloads --transfers 25 -u n.lastname@campus.unimib.it -p PaSsWoRd

Login issues

The login process is a bit fragile; if you get an error at the beginning, you can try copying the cookies from your browser.

Open cookies.json and see which cookies are defined.

Go to https://elearning.unimib.it, log in. Open the developer tools, go to the network tab, reload the page, and copy the cookies from any request to elearning.unimib.it into the cookies.json file. You don't need to copy all of them, just those that are present in cookies.json.

Credits

The Kaltura video URL resolver is based on Blastd/UnimibKalturaResolver, which is also GPL-3.0 licensed.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0.