Direct Links to Highest Quality Videos from Drupalcon DC 2009

March 18, 2009

I spent most of Drupalcon collecting over 50 interviews in the hallways for a new daily podcast series that we'll be talking more about later this week, but I ended up missing a lot of interesting sessions. It was hard to feel like you weren't missing something at Drupalcon this year.

I wanted to be able to be able to download all of the videos from Drupalcon, but there wasn't a one-stop shop that had the direct download links to the highest quality versions of every uploaded video.

I wanted to either use the DownloadThemAll! Firefox plug-in or kick off a download wget script to download them, and so I scraped all of the drupalcon09 archive.org pages, extracted the download links of all the various different versions and then filtered them in a spreadsheet according to whatever the best quality was. The QuickTime *.mov are usually the highest quality, then MPEG4, 512Kb MPEG4 and Ogg Video in that order.

I finished downloading 97 working videos totaling almost 24GB, and so I figured that I'd share the direct links to the highest quality versions down below for anyone else who wants a direct copy.

There are actually 98 archive.org Drupalcon '09 pages, and the Drupalcamp How To Q&A session file is added for posterity, but is an empty file. And technically, there is a higher quality version of Dries' keynote that is 2.7GB that can be found here, but the smaller 512kb version works just as well.

The download script that I used is here.

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Wall of DrupalCon Videos...

On March 18th, 2009 Aaron Winborn (not verified) said:

http://aaronwinborn.com/video-term/drupalcon-dc

3GB is just too much q.q

On March 18th, 2009 seutje (not verified) said:

3GB is just too much q.q

I downloaded more than half

On March 18th, 2009 picardo (not verified) said:

I downloaded more than half of them two days ago, but was disappointed to find that some of them do not have any sound and others don't work at all. For instance try watching the usability video. Even on archive.org, it doesn't have any sound.

Sound is there, just distorted

On March 18th, 2009 kentbye said:

Both of the usability videos have sound, but the sound is extremely distorted -- and just barely comprehensible.

Try the two *.mov links listed above. Sometimes the transcoded versions to ogg or flash either have sync issues or other sound problems.

Torrent distribution?

On March 18th, 2009 Arvin Singla (not verified) said:

Anyone who has all the videos want to pack it up into a torrent we can all connect to? Share the load as it were.

tell me your favorite

On March 18th, 2009 Pasqualle (not verified) said:

Ok, which one is your favorite (or top 3) presentation?

Building APIs that Rock (Jeff Eaton) is a must see
The Future of Callbacks (Károly Négyesi) and Limitations of the Drupal Theme Layer (Young Hahn) are the most innovative..

but I missed many good presentations, so which one should I see next?

Down them All!

On March 18th, 2009 David Moore (not verified) said:

The DownThemAll firefox extension is also very useful in situations like this.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201

Archive.org

On March 18th, 2009 Rob Loach (not verified) said:

Thank you to Archive.org for being so awesome and hosting all these for us!

Now with an rsync mirror!

On March 18th, 2009 DamZ (not verified) said:

All those movies are now mirrored at:

rsync://damz.dosprint.org/dc/*

An easiser way with wget

On March 19th, 2009 manuee (not verified) said:

First of all, thanks for sharing this, surely will save us a lot of time :)

Now to the tip, instead of writing that script, wget has an option for you to feed it a file with links, like this:
wget --input-file=videolinks.txt --tries=0; (--tries=0 means retry infinetly).

So no need to call it once per file :) ... wget will loop thorugh each link in the file and download it one at at the time =)

Thx

On March 19th, 2009 dddave (not verified) said:

Thx!

Downloaded what sounds interesting to me and had only very minor problems with soundglitches.

You rock !!

I love Drupal...

Thanks! Got the torrent from piratebay

On June 11th, 2009 cloneofsnake (not verified) said:

Going to save archive.org some bandwidth and share this from my NAS as long as possible!

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Direct Links to Highest Quality Videos from Drupalcon DC 2009

Comments

Wall of DrupalCon Videos...

3GB is just too much q.q

I downloaded more than half

Sound is there, just distorted

Torrent distribution?

tell me your favorite

Down them All!

Archive.org

Now with an rsync mirror!

An easiser way with wget

Thx

Nice work Kent! Can't wait

Torrent

Great list.. Nice work Ken.

See torrent at

Missed one:

Great service !

Thanks! Got the torrent from piratebay

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