Desire2Download

Desire 2 Download is a tool to download all of the content from the University of Waterloo's new learning management system which uses Desire2Learn instead of the old Angel based UWACE.

d2d was inspired by Jamie Wong's fabulous UWAngel-CLI written in Ruby.

d2d is somewhat hacky and has not been tested extensively. If you do find a bug, please let us know

Installation

Automagic

pip install desire2download

Hipster

wget https://github.com/sholiday/Desire2Download/archive/master.zip
unzip master && cd desire2download-master
python setup.py install

Usage

Parameters	Description
u or username	Your quest userid
p or password	Your quest password
i or ignore	Ignore certain files
c or courses	Ignore certain courses
o or overwrite	Overwrite existing files

Just browse to the folder you want to download the files in, type d2d and hit enter!

Basic Usage

ktalwar@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ d2d

Username filled out

$ d2d -u ktalwar

Username and password filled out

$ d2d -u ktalwar -p icanhazcatz

Ignore certain files

$ d2d -i ".*.ppt"

Ignore certain courses

Ignores anything starting with M

$ d2d -c "M+"

Ignores anything starting with M or P

$ d2d -c "^[MP]+"

Ignores anything containing 22

d2d -c ".+(22).+"

Full complex example

d2d -u scholida -p hecanhazcatz -i ".*.ppt" -c "CS+"

Logging In...
Logged In
Finding courses...
ECE 224 - Fall 2011
 + ECE 224 - Fall 2011/Labs/Lab Tools Tutorial.html (1.70K)
 + ECE 224 - Fall 2011/Labs/Lab 1/lab1_checklist-s2010.pdf (107.65K)
   ...

d2d will not download a file if it has been already saved unless the overwrite option is used..

If you use the script in a cron job, be nice to Learn and don't re-download all the time. Perhaps run without overwrite every hour but with overwrite once a day.