Requirements

• setuptools for the installation (in the python package setuptools in debian)
• python-3.4 or above.
• BeautifulSoup (installed by the setup.py)
• requests (installed by the setup.py)
• keyring (installed by the setup.py). Note that depending on your desktop environment, you might also need to install keyrings.alt.
• requests-cache (optional)
• A moodle account subscribed to at least one course

Installation

Type:

git clone git://github.com/gcmalloc/epfl-moodle.git
cd epfl-moodle
python setup.py install

Usage

Do, with $username as your gaspar username :

moodle $username

This will initialise a moodle configuration file in the current directory. A menu will be then displayed, choose which course you would like to keep up to date in this directory. Then the script will download all the specified courses.

Then

moodle $username

will update all the course kept in this directory

You can also simply download a single course with

moodle $username $course-url

With $course-url, the url of the course you want to scrap.This url must match the following scheme: http://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=$id

The files will be downloaded in the current directory.