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16 changes: 10 additions & 6 deletions scrape.py
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#!/usr/bin/env python

import re
import os
import passwords
import sys
import getpass
from subprocess import Popen
from mechanize import Browser
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -29,12 +30,12 @@ def download(work):

# Import from a module outside of version control your SUNET id and password
br.select_form(name="login")
br["username"] = passwords.my_username
br["password"] = passwords.my_password
br["username"] = raw_input('Username: ')
br["password"] = getpass.getpass();

# Open the course page for the title you're looking for
# Open the course page for the title you're looking for
response = br.submit()
response = br.follow_link(text=sys.argv[1])
response = br.follow_link(text=raw_input('Class Description: '))

# Build up a list of lectures
links = []
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videos = []
# These are done serially purely just to not look suspicious, we could probably parallelize this as well
for link in links:
print "Reading contents of %s" % link
response = br.open(link)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.read())
video = soup.find('object', id='WMPlayer')['data']
video = re.sub("http","mms",video)
output_name = re.search(r"[a-z]+[0-9]+[a-z]?/[0-9]+",video).group(0).replace("/","_") + ".wmv"
videos.append((video, output_name))

print "Downloading %d videos..." % len(videos)

# Make a thread pool and download 5 files at a time
p = Pool(processes=5)
p.map(download, videos)