Segment Download

Segment Download is a Bash script developed specifically for downloading video segments. I created it specifically to download Online Canvas Lectures as there was no native support for downloading lectures. It will only function when the segments follow the scheme seg-X-v1-a1.ts

Usage

Prerequisites

• cURL: Make sure you have cURL installed on your system.
• FFmpeg: Ensure that FFmpeg is installed to concatenate downloaded segments.

Running the Script

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/wtonk001/segment-download.git

2. Get the URL for a segment of the video you wish to download.

   • Navigate to the video
   • Open Inspect Element
   • Go to the Network tab
   • Begin playback of the video until you see a url following the format: https://cfvod.kaltura.com/.../a.mp4/seg-X-v1-a1.ts?Policy=...&Signature=...&Key-Pair-Id=...

3. Execute the command

   ./download.bat "<URL>" [start_segment] [end_segment]

   • To download the whole video you need to know exactly how many segments the video has.
   • start_segment begins at 1.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.