impartus video downloader
[!NOTE] Impartus has stopped working working at least for 2021 Batch. Make sure to check if it is working before using this tool.
Demo
How to use
- Have ffmpeg installed on your pc and have it in your PATH.
- Download the latest release and extract it.
- Add your username/email and password in
config.json. - Make suitable changes to the config as per your needs. Read here for more information on configuration.
- Execute the binary.
Selecting lectures
When prompted to enter a range do the following
- Enter the numbers shown on the left (not the lecture number after "LEC")
- If you want lectures from 1 to 10, this is how your input will be
1 10. The range is inclusive. - If you want only 1 lecture say 5, your input should be
5 5. - Make sure you add space between the start and end.
Configuration
The comments beside the fields tell the allowed values.
{
"username": "uid@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in",
"password": "password",
"baseUrl": "http://bitshyd.impartus.com/api", // Accepted values: "http://bitshyd.impartus.com/api", "http://172.16.3.20/api"
"quality": "720", // Accepted values: "720", "450", "144"
"views": "both", // Accepted values: "left", "right", "both"
"downloadLocation": "./downloads", // Directory where the final file is stored to
"tempDirLocation": "./.temp", // Directory to store the chunks (directory can be deleted when the program is not running)
"slides": false, // Accepted values: true, false to download the slides from impartus,
"numWorkers": 5 // Number of workers to use set this to 1 if you want to download the videos sequentially. Setting this to 0 will use a default number that is 5
}