OnRails.org: Download RailsConf 2007 Presentations

Download RailsConf 2007 Presentations

Lee Marlow — Mon, 21 May 2007 18:27:00 +0000

Run this to get the RailsConf 2007 presentations:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'

base = 'http://www.web2expo.com'
h = Hpricot(open("#{base}/pub/w/51/presentations.html"))

h.search('div .presentation > a[@href^="/presentations/rails2007/"]').each do |a|
  url = "#{base}#{a[:href]}"
  if File.exists?(File.basename(url))
    puts "skipping #{url}... already downloaded"
  else
    puts "downloading #{url}..."
    `wget --quiet #{url}`
  end
end

I might clean it up more later to name the files better and not use wget, but this was quick and easy... not to mention a way to use everyone's favorite parsing tool: Hpricot.

"Download RailsConf 2007 Presentations" by Preston Lee

Mon, 21 May 2007 21:06:14 +0000

Cool hack. I did something similar this morning, and am hosting a single .zip download which include stuff not present on the web2expo website..

http://www.prestonlee.com/archives/117

"Download RailsConf 2007 Presentations" by Preston Lee

Mon, 21 May 2007 21:06:15 +0000

Cool hack. I did something similar this morning, and am hosting a single .zip download which include stuff not present on the web2expo website..

http://www.prestonlee.com/archives/117

"Download RailsConf 2007 Presentations" by Werner Ramaekers

Mon, 21 May 2007 19:44:03 +0000

If you want to run this from a mac running OSX then replace : `wget—quiet #{url}` with : `curl -O—silent #{url}`

"Download RailsConf 2007 Presentations" by Werner Ramaekers

Mon, 21 May 2007 19:35:53 +0000

If you want to run this from a mac running OSX then replace : `wget—quiet #{url}` with : `curl—silent #{url}`

"Download RailsConf 2007 Presentations" by Dr J

Mon, 21 May 2007 19:31:49 +0000

excellent!!

wish I was in Portland for it