OpenWorld 2017–grab ALL of the content

October 14, 2017

1–2 minutes

Some people use the session catalog to grab just the presentations that they either attended, or could not attend.

Other people want a download of every available presentation so they can peruse the entire catalog offline at a later date.

I am one of the latter people. Smile

So using some node, javascript, awk, sed, grep I managed to data-mine the catalog page to come up with a list of uploaded presentations in the form:


wget --no-check-certificate -O "SessionTitle".extension "https://static.rainfocus.com/full_path_to_presentation.extension"

which of course can then be run as a batch file to grab them all. Woo hoo !!!

You can download the batch file which contains the 932 download commands here

I can’t make any guarantees the list is complete, or that the script will work without error, but it should be a good starting point, and it will be a lot faster than clicking on each presentation !

If it does not work for you, my apologies. If it does work for you and saves you a lot of time, just don’t forget that I like beer or gin&tonic next time you see me. Smile

Enjoy !

17 responses to “OpenWorld 2017–grab ALL of the content”

Peter

October 15, 2017 at 2:15 am

Thanks a lot. You have one beer in Kosice, Slovakia

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Sam

October 15, 2017 at 2:19 am

Thanks Connor, where does it save the files to?

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1. connormcdonald
  
  October 15, 2017 at 8:23 am
  
  Typically current directory
  
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D Pallotta

October 16, 2017 at 1:46 pm

Worked for me – Next time you are in Adelaide!

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Vinay Mistry

October 16, 2017 at 8:27 pm

Worked for me. When u meet me at sangam a beer from me aswell 🙂

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Michel

October 16, 2017 at 8:41 pm

Nice. A beer from the netherlands!

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Thillaivel Ranganathan

October 18, 2017 at 7:05 am

Unable to establish SSL connection , OpenSSL: error: 14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure

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1. genevievewarriner
  
  October 18, 2017 at 7:42 am
  
  you need a more up to date version of wget (get 1.19)
  
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Jose Espinoza Cruz (@jespinoz)

October 21, 2017 at 3:11 am

Thanks Connor for sharing, works perfect!
Owe you 1 Gin & Tonic and couple beers!! 🙂

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alida

October 22, 2017 at 6:46 pm

Thanks for your beer-license script! It works perfectly. Is prosecco from Venice the same for you?

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1. connormcdonald
  
  October 22, 2017 at 8:34 pm
  
  Of course ! Especially if I can come to Venice to sample it ! 🙂
  
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Suraj

October 23, 2017 at 3:25 pm

Thanks for sharing the useful information Connor. I had issues to run the bat file in Windows as wget utility was not available in my laptop. As a workaround i have used the same contents as .sh in Oracle Linux VM and it worked fine. Will meet you at Sangam in december with a beer 🙂

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Kirill Loifman

October 25, 2017 at 4:36 pm

Thanks Conor for great OOW sessions and this new tip
Come to DOAG Conference in November to get your favourites 🙂
— Kirill Loifman

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Alessandro Suardi

October 25, 2017 at 5:19 pm

Thanks, it does work.

Just thought I’d mention that on Linux the .bat file needs to be converted to UNIX format (a simple ‘vi’ with “:set notextmode” followed by “:wq” is sufficient), else you’ll get a bunch of HTTP 403 (Forbidden).

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Dejan Topalovic

October 28, 2017 at 3:07 am

Well, I am the one who will not thank you. You’ve just runied my weekend! And maybe the next one too!
Because I have now soooo many great articles to read about misc. Oracle technologies, writenn by great experts!
I am tempted to say “I hate you!”, but after all those great articles, incl. your blog & AskTom, I can just say – I admire you!

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Kuba

October 30, 2017 at 12:22 am

Thanks Connor for sharing

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Karel Prech

October 31, 2017 at 5:55 pm

Hello Connor,

could be possible generate this loong list also for windows users 🙂

Example:

(new-object system.net.webclient).downloadfile(“https://static.rainfocus.com/oracle/oow17/sess/14976512807560016sBV/PF/Amobee_ODC_OpenWorld_FINAL CR_1507095207967001ztIr.pptx”,”Data Ignites Digital Transformation.pptx”)

Then it is possible to run it in powershell window.

Best regards from Czech Republic

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