API for lectures/courses

[Valentin-Metz]

I've been automating TUM lecture downloads for about a year now. See https://github.com/Valentin-Metz/tum_video_scraper aka https://scraper.tum.sexy/ and an integration into youtube-dl https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/pull/31305.

Getting information about lectures from the page html is possible, but a hassle, as it changes regularly and is not designed to be consistent.

A consistent API would allow for a reliable integration of TUM-Live into such tools. It would be nice to have access to the following:

• Lecture series name (Example: Introduction to Deep Learning (IN2346))
• Lecture episode name (Example: Lecture 3: Introduction to Neural Networks)
• The episode number of a lecture (Suggestion: unsigned integer - useful in filenames eg. "005_Lecture__November_23._2021.mp4")
• A list of all lectures in a lecture series
• Available CAM and PRES substreams
• Link to .m3u8 playlist
• Any kind of bonus information we have (eg. lecturer, chatlogs, release date/timestamp, chapters)

A more comprehensive list of would-be-useful metadata can be found at the youtube-dl extractor description.

[joschahenningsen]

If you want, feel free to work on this :)

[livgm]

@Valentin-Metz, are you currently/still working on this issue? Would be happy to implement a first version of this proposal!

[joschahenningsen]

This will likely be tackled as part of the upcoming iPraktikum, if you want I can connect you to the devs once I know who will work on it @livgm :)

[Valentin-Metz]

@Valentin-Metz, are you currently/still working on this issue? Would be happy to implement a first version of this proposal!

Currently the scraper still works without an API, but an implementation would ofc still be greatly appreciated.