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Download videos and lecture attachments from events managed with thefrab systemor with thepretalx(like the Chaos communication congress, MRMCD, Camp, ...)

By default the most recent, known chaos event is considered and high-qualitywebmfiles are downloaded.This can, however, be changed using the--event and--format flags respectively.A list of configured events and available formats for a given event can be printed(using flags--list-events and--list-formats).For a list of all flags the script understands, try

down-frab-videos --help

When downloading a talk the script will not only download the recording,but also some information from the frab Fahrplan as well.This includes:

• The attached files
• The abstract and summary for the talk
• The list of links and references

In order to download talks, you just need to provide the script with a list of talk ids.You can find the talkid in the url of your webbrowser.For example thefrab page with url ending inevents/8414.htmlhas the talkid8414 and thepretalx page ending intalk/VHLTSN/corresponds to talkidVHLTSN.

You can either list the talkidsline-by-line in a file and hand that file over to the script via the argument--input-file.For example the file

6258# some crazy comment6450

downloads the talks with IDs6258 and6450.For downloading only a small number of talks with the script the command line syntax

down-frab-videos 6258 6450

is usually more convenient.

Some of the options configured via the command line can be set more permanently viaa configuration file as well.To get started with this you should dump the defaults using

down-frab-videos --dump-config

This will write a stub config to~/.config/down-frab-videos/config.yaml.

pip install down-frab-videos

• Python >= 3.5
• Beautiful Soup
• json
• pycountry
• PyYAML
• requests
• subprocess
• textwrap