A small script to automatically download all course materials from the NUST Learning Management System (LMS) Online Portal.
Updated to work with new LMS.
This guide assumes that you have you have your Python binary under python and pip under pip. Depending on your installation, you may have to run python3 or py for Python and pip3 for pip. You can change this behaviour using Symbolic Links.
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Make sure you have Python with pip installed. Run
pip install -r requirements.txt
The config.py file contains the following variables:
| Variable | Function |
|---|---|
| USERNAME | Your LMS Username. |
| PASSWORD | Your LMS Password. |
| COURSE_LINKS | Links to courses that you want to download course materials for. |
| ALIASES | If you want course materials for a specific course to be placed in a different subdirectory, you can specify the name for that subdirectory here. Add a key-value pair to the dictionary with the key equal to the name of the course on LMS and the value equal to the preferred name of the subdirectory. |
| DOWNLOAD_DIRECTORY | Absolute path of the download directory. Set it to None to download in the current directory. |
| LAB_MANUALS_DIR | Directory inside DOWNLOAD_DIRECTORY where lab manuals are saved. Set it to None to download in the same directory as other files. |
Copy the config file and the script download.py to the directory where you want folders for courses to be made and navigate to it using Command Prompt/Terminal. Then run
python download.py
Follow this guide.
Use a cron job.