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Direct Links to Highest Quality Videos from Drupalcon DC 2009

Blog by Kent ByeMarch 18, 2009 - 12:38pm

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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cloneofsnake (not verified) on June 11, 2009 - 1:12am

Thanks! Got the torrent from piratebay

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

Khaled (not verified) on June 5, 2009 - 2:19pm

Great service !

Thank you man for uploading these useful drupalcon videos..
Was waiting!!

You rock !!

I love Drupal...

Anonymous (not verified) on April 18, 2009 - 12:12am

Missed one:

It appears you missed the "Totally Rocking Your Development Environment" session:
http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/totally-rocking-your-development-env...

Anonymous (not verified) on March 26, 2009 - 2:29pm

See torrent at

See torrent at http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4801793/drupalcon2009

Tnomeralc Web Design Toys (not verified) on March 24, 2009 - 7:58am

Great list.. Nice work Ken.

Great list.. Nice work Ken. Thank you for this list.

Guix (not verified) on March 23, 2009 - 11:35am

Torrent

I wanted to make a torrent of all these videos but the folder is around 24 Go. What to do now ?

Chris Bryant (not verified) on March 20, 2009 - 1:20pm

Nice work Kent! Can't wait

Nice work Kent! Can't wait to hear all of the podcast interviews as well!

dddave (not verified) on March 19, 2009 - 5:51pm

Thx

Thx!

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

manuee (not verified) on March 19, 2009 - 3:49pm

An easiser way with wget

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 =)

DamZ (not verified) on March 18, 2009 - 7:14pm

Now with an rsync mirror!

All those movies are now mirrored at:

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

Rob Loach (not verified) on March 18, 2009 - 6:24pm

Archive.org

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

David Moore (not verified) on March 18, 2009 - 3:28pm

Down them All!

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

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

Pasqualle (not verified) on March 18, 2009 - 3:28pm

tell me your favorite

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?

Arvin Singla (not verified) on March 18, 2009 - 3:12pm

seutje (not verified) on March 18, 2009 - 2:07pm

3GB is just too much q.q

Aaron Winborn (not verified) on March 18, 2009 - 2:00pm

Wall of DrupalCon Videos...

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

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Comments

Thanks! Got the torrent from piratebay

Great service !

Missed one:

See torrent at

Great list.. Nice work Ken.

Torrent

Nice work Kent! Can't wait

Thx

An easiser way with wget

Now with an rsync mirror!

Archive.org

Down them All!

tell me your favorite

Torrent distribution?

I downloaded more than half

Sound is there, just distorted

3GB is just too much q.q

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