Designed for IIT Bombay Moodle
This application serves the purpose of automating the process of downloading files from Moodle. It downloads all the files from the listed courses to the user's computer.
Linux and Mac - Download MooDLD.py and moodle.ico from Github Repository.
Windows - Extract the Setup.rar file from here and run it. Installation is straightforward.
Note: It is recommended to set the installation directory to a location which does not require administrator access to modify files. If you set it to "C:/Program Files(x86)/MooDLD", MooDLD might give an error like "MooDLD returned -1". To fix this, either change the installation directory or right click on the icon and "Run MooDLD as administrator".
Install Dependencies
mechanize
On Ubuntu use sudo apt-get install python-mechanize
On Mac use sudo pip install mechanize
Tkinter
On Ubuntu use sudo apt-get install python-tk
On Mac Tkinter is installed by default when you install python
pyCrypto
Install using pip
pip install pycrypto
Run using one of the following:
a. python2 MooDLD.py(Won't work with python3)
b. ./MooDLD.py
In case you get a Permission Denied error for method b. Run chmod +x MooDLD.py and then try again.
The user has to login using LDAP ID/Password.
(Keep me logged in can be checked to avoid entering credentials repeatedly)
On the first run, after logging in, the user must go to the Preferences page to select the courses to be downloaded. The directory for each course also needs to be specified. The user can also change the root directory to effectively set the directory of all courses to
Click "Save Settings" to save the settings for further use. These can be changed by visiting the Preferences page any time.
The user has to click on the DLD Files button to download files of selected courses from Moodle.
The application creates two .txt files in the directory in which it is kept - Cred.txt and Preferences.txt.
These files are essential for the working of the application and must NOT be deleted! Deletion of above files will lead to loss in saved settings.
If a course has folders within it, MooDLD creates a new folder in the pre-set directory and downloads all the folder contents into this newly created folder, effectively, replicating the entire structure present on the website on your local system. Assignment handling has also been added so that the assignments which are uploaded are also downloaded. News Forum download has also been integrated, MooDLD downloads all downloadable files from News Forum threads as well.
Nihal Singh - nihal111
Arpan Banerjee - arpan98
Akash Trehan - CodeMaxx
Please feel free to contact us:
mailto:nihal.111@gmail.com
mailto:arpanbnrj9@gmail.com
mailto:akash.trehan123@gmail.com
Any bugs found should be reported to the issue tracker.
You can send in Pull Requests to contribute to the project.