If you are not familiar with terminal, you can use this browser extension to download WebEx videos directly from the webpage: https://github.com/jacopo-j/WebXDownloader
If you need to download multiple videos at once and/or prefer a faster download through aria2c, go ahead with this project 😉
GUI Version: https://github.com/yuyu-19/PoliDL-GUI
Features:
- Interactive SPID login (but the username and password are saved)
- Download entire courses with the webeep url (https://webeep.polimi.it/course/view.php?id=XXX)
- Node.js: above v14.0.
- aria2: this needs to be in your
$PATH
(for example, copy aria2c.exe to c:\windows). PoliWebex callsaria2c
with a bunch of arguments in order to improve the download speed. - ffmpeg: a recent version (year 2019 or above), in
$PATH
.
(On others OS is pretty much the same)
N.B: ffmpeg.zeranoe.com closed since Sep 18, 2020. If you are following the video tutorial, download ffmpeg from another source available on ffmpeg site (nightly build is no more required)
This tutorial comes from my other project PoliDown. The installation process is the same, just use clone this repo (and not PoliDown repo) and write "poliwebex" where in the video appear "polidown"
- Clone this repo
cd
into the cloned foldernpm install
to install dependencies
Default usage:
$ node poliwebex --videoUrls "https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/webappng/sites/politecnicomilano/recording/play/VIDEO-1"
$ node poliwebex -v "https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/webappng/sites/politecnicomilano/recording/play/VIDEO-1"
Show options:
$ node poliwebex -h
Options:
--version Show version number [boolean]
-v, --videoUrls [array]
-f, --videoUrlsFile Path to txt file containing the URLs (one URL per line) [string]
-p, --SPIDpassword [string]
-u, --SPIDusername [string]
-o, --outputDirectory [string] [default: "videos"]
-e, --polimiEmail In the format of name.surname@mail.polimi.it
-k, --noKeyring Do not use system keyring [boolean] [default: false]
-t, --noToastNotification Disable toast notification [boolean] [default: false]
-i, --timeout Scale timeout by a factor X [number]
-w, --videoPwd Default video password [string] [default: ""]
-h, --help Show help [boolean]
Multiple videos download:
$ node poliwebex -v "https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/webappng/sites/politecnicomilano/recording/play/VIDEO-1" "https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/webappng/sites/politecnicomilano/recording/play/VIDEO-2"
Download from TXT file (one link each line):
$ node poliwebex -f "/my/path/here/links.txt"
Output directory (relative or absoulte path):
$ node poliwebex -v "https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/webappng/sites/politecnicomilano/recording/play/VIDEO-1" -o "/my/path/here"
Replace saved password
$ node poliwebex -p MYNEWPASSWORD -v "https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/webappng/sites/politecnicomilano/recording/play/VIDEO-1"
Download password-protected video (could also omit the argument and input it manually)
$ node poliwebex -v "https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/webappng/sites/politecnicomilano/recording/play/VIDEO-1" -w PASSWORD
Scale timeout values by a factor X (integer or float value). Really useful for slow connections while performing login operations
$ node poliwebex -v "https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/webappng/sites/politecnicomilano/recording/play/VIDEO-1" -i X
Do not use system keyring to save the password:
$ node poliwebex -v "https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/webappng/sites/politecnicomilano/recording/play/VIDEO-1" -k
You can omit the password argument. PoliWebex will ask for it interactively and then save it securely in system's keychain for the next use.
Project powered by @sup3rgiu
Features: PoliMi Autologin - Multithreading download
Using aria2 version 1.35.0
Using ffmpeg version git-2020-03-06-cfd9a65 Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers
Video URLs: [
'https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/webappng/sites/politecnicomilano/recording/play/b569e996f56740a3bc9bfd2637713779'
]
Output Directory: videos
Reusing password saved in system's keychain!
Launching headless Chrome to perform the OpenID Connect dance...
Navigating to WebEx login page...
Filling in Servizi Online login form...
We are logged in.
Got required authentication cookies.
At this point Chrome's job is done, shutting it down...
Video title is: Lesson number 1 - The cat is on the table
03/10 20:47:14 [NOTICE] Downloading 898 item(s)
[...]
Done!
The video is now saved under videos/
, or whatever the outputDirectory
argument points to.