Thanks to Michel de Rooij on TechNet gallery for posting this slick script where you can download TechNet content locally to your machine.
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Ignite-2016-Slidedeck-and-296df316
I wanted to select which videos to download, and wrote this powershell script to use out-gridview to download content. It calls the script above.
Usage:
You can run the command directly from powershell, just cut and paste this command:
iwr https://gist.githubusercontent.com/keithga/cb124fa3d2f96ac58470831c52d359a7/raw/8040ddaf971a27f0b35fd4b5e9c131048d29e8a5/get-Ignite2017Content.ps1 | % Content | Iex
Comments:
- Will download and cache the content locally so you can re-run the script repeatedly without having to wait to parse the website.
- Will then display all the sessions in the PowerShell Out-GridView. Out-gridview is powerful.
- Then will ask If you want to save the list to a *.html file for online viewing later.
- Will also ask if you want to save the offline content to a local file.
The script:
| <# | |
| Script to assist finding content to download from MS Ignite 2017 | |
| Will use the script Get-IngiteSession.ps1 from: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Ignite-2016-Slidedeck-and-296df316 | |
| #> | |
| [cmdletbinding()] | |
| param( | |
| [string] $URI = 'https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Ignite-2016-Slidedeck-and-296df316/file/180223/1/Get-IgniteSession.ps1', | |
| [string]$DownloadFolder = "$ENV:SystemDrive\Ignite", | |
| [string[]] $IgniteProperties = @( 'sessionCode', 'title', 'abstract', 'dayOfTheWeek', 'topics', 'format', 'audience', 'levels', 'personas', 'durationInMinutes', 'products', 'tags', 'speakerNames', 'speakerIds', 'slideDeck', 'onDemand', 'downloadVideoLink' ) | |
| ) | |
| Function Remove-InvalidFileNameChars { | |
| param( | |
| [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, | |
| Position=0, | |
| ValueFromPipeline=$true, | |
| ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)] | |
| [String]$Name | |
| ) | |
| $invalidChars = [IO.Path]::GetInvalidFileNameChars() -join '' | |
| $re = "[{0}]" -f [RegEx]::Escape($invalidChars) | |
| return ($Name -replace $re) | |
| } | |
| if ( -not ( test-path $DownloadFolder ) ) { | |
| new-item –ItemType directory –Path $DownloadFolder –ErrorAction SilentlyContinue –force | out-null | |
| } | |
| #region Download and Cache session list | |
| ############################## | |
| $IgniteCache = join-path $DownloadFolder 'IgniteSessionCache.xml' | |
| if ( -not ( test-path $IgniteCache ) ) { | |
| Write-verbose "Get meta-data on sessions" | |
| $LocalSCript = Join-Path $DownloadFolder (split-path $URI –leaf) | |
| if ( -not ( test-path $LocalScript ) ) { | |
| write-verbose "download Script $URI" | |
| Invoke-WebRequest –UseBasicParsing –Uri $URI –OutFile $LocalScript | |
| } | |
| $IgniteList = & $LocalScript –InfoOnly | |
| remove-item –Path $LocalScript –ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | out-null | |
| $IgniteList | Export-Clixml –Path $IgniteCache | |
| } | |
| else { | |
| $IgniteList = Import-Clixml –path $IgniteCache | |
| } | |
| #endregion | |
| #region Parse the list and display in out-gridview | |
| ############################## | |
| $MyList = $igniteList | | |
| # We are only intrested in presentations with content. | |
| where { $_.SlideDeck -or $_.DownloadVideoLink -or $_.OnDemand } | | |
| # Don't display any repeat sessions | |
| where { ! $_.SessionCode.EndsWith('R') } | | |
| select –Property $IgniteProperties | | |
| Out-GridView –Title 'Select Items to download (use ctrl to select more than one)' –OutputMode Multiple | |
| $count = $MyList | measure-object | % Count | |
| write-host "Selected $count Items" | |
| if ( $Count -eq 0 ) { exit } | |
| #endregion | |
| #region Display OnDemand content | |
| ############################## | |
| if ( [System.Windows.MessageBox]::Show("Found $Count Items`r`n`r`nOK to generate ONDemand link?",'Ignite Download','YesNo','Info') -eq 'yes' ) { | |
| write-host "List of OnDemand Content: " | |
| $MyList | ? { $_.OnDemand } | ft –Property Title,onDemand | out-string –Width 200 | write-host | |
| $MyList | ? { ! $_.OnDemand -and $_.slideDeck } | ft –Property Title,slideDeck | out-string –Width 200 | write-host | |
| "<html><head><title>OnDemand Ignite Session List</title></head><body>" > $DownloadFolder\OnDemandList.html | |
| $MyList | ? { $_.OnDemand } | % { "<a href=""$($_.onDemand)"">$($_.SessionCode) – $($_.Title)</a></br>" } >> $DownloadFolder\OnDemandList.html | |
| "</br></br>" >> $env:temp\OnDemandList.html | |
| $MyList | ? { ! $_.OnDemand -and $_.slideDeck } | % { "<a href=""https:$($_.slideDeck)"">$($_.SessionCode) – $($_.Title)</a></br>" } >> $DownloadFolder\OnDemandList.html | |
| "</body></html>" >> $DownloadFolder\OnDemandList.html | |
| start $DownloadFolder\OnDemandList.html | |
| } | |
| #endregion | |
| #region Download content | |
| ############################## | |
| if ( [System.Windows.MessageBox]::Show("Found $Count Items`r`n`r`nOK to Download to: $DownloadFolder",'Ignite Download','YesNo','Info') -eq 'yes' ) { | |
| $MyList | | |
| foreach-object { | |
| if ( $_.DownloadVideoLink ) { | |
| [PSCustomObject] @{ Source = $_.DownloadVideoLink; Destination = join-path $DownloadFolder ( Remove-InvalidFileNameChars "$($_.SessionCode) – $($_.Title).mp4" ) } | |
| } | |
| elseif ( $_.SlideDeck ) { | |
| [PSCustomObject] @{ Source = [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlDecode( $_.Slidedeck.replace('//view.officeapps.live.com/op/embed.aspx?src=','') ) ; | |
| Destination = join-path $DownloadFolder ( Remove-InvalidFileNameChars "$($_.SessionCode) – $($_.Title).pptx" ) } | |
| } | |
| } | | |
| where-object { -not ( test-path $_.Destination ) } | | |
| start-BitsTransfer | |
| } | |
| #endregion | |
| #cleanup | |
| #remove-item -Path $IgniteCache -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | out-null |
