Starting in 2019, Build used a differnt format/web site for storing slides and video presentations. This made the venerable version (https://github.com/FrankLaVigne/SessionDownloaderLegacy) written for PDC 09 and subsequent events outdated.
I spend time re-vamping the code in 2019 to work with the new JSON format feed. I drew inspiration (and URLs) from the PowerShell script at https://github.com/michelderooij/Get-EventSession
- Updated for Ignite 2020
- Added thumbnail support
- Videos and captions from Ignite 2020 now work
- Still working on the slide decks
- Certain fields are not in the main JSON document, but the video download URLs may be inferred (Details below)
- This is no frills, hence the synchronous downloads and simple UI
- Pull requests welcome ;)
To get all the videos from Ignite 2020
d:\i20\ https://api.myignite.microsoft.com/api/session/all v
For some reason, the video download URLs are not in the JSON yet, I need to infer the video download URLs via various means. If it's wrong, it downloads a file string stating that there's an error. This error message is 22 bytes. The code deletes any downloaded files 22 bytes long.
- Updated for Build 2020
- Parameterization added
- Caption support added
- started code and project reogranization
This code is no frills and, since it does what I need, I'm probably not going to modify it anytime soon. If you're impatient, feel free to modify, and submit a PR.
The program now supports parameters
File path to a directory to download files to
Location of JSON file for session data
One letter code based on the table below.
| Code | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| A | All | Get all related files |
| V | Video | Get session video |
| S | Slides | Get session slides |
| C | Captions | Get session captions |
| T | Thumbnails | Get session thumbnails |
| N | None | Just show metadata |
To get all the slides from Ignite 2019
d:\I19\ https://api-myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/api/session/all s
To get all the videos from Build 2020
d:\b20\ https://api.mybuild.microsoft.com/api/session/all v
To get all the captions from Build 2020
d:\b20\ https://api.mybuild.microsoft.com/api/session/all c
To find out what content is available from Build 2020
d:\b20\ https://api.mybuild.microsoft.com/api/session/all n
It began humbly as a WPF app to capture all the sessions from PDC 2009.
2009 was a simpler time, mobile broadband was expensive and not widely available and I wanted a way to watch PDC videos at home on my TV (sad, right?) or on the go on my laptop. The answer was to grab all the content using the RSS/ATOM feed Channel9 made available.
In 2015, I updated it to download the sessions from Build 2015. In 2016, I added parameters to make it grab all items on Channel9 with an Event RSS feed. In 2018, I encountered some issues: first with the RSS feed then with some other oddities stemming from the previous approach, which had more or less in place since 2009.
Starting in 2019, Build used a different system.
I'd like to add
- Unit tests
- more robust