A simple tool to download as many files from moodle as possible. This was designed for me to easily build an archive of my courses at EPFL. It is still in development and was not built for other moodles. If used and if you don't mind, please send me the result at edouard.dufour@micro-ondes.ch for my personal archive.

Requirements

This script was written in python 3.10.4 and the following packages:

package	version
beautifulsoup4	4.12.2
requests	2.31.0

Features

Currently downloads:

ressources
folders
assignments

Usage

The script is pretty simple to use. Just provide a moodle link and authentication information like this:

python main.py -u USER -p PASSWORD -d /moodle -m https://moodlearchive.epfl.ch/2019-2020/

If providing an url that doesn't end with the year, you must specify the year like this:

python main.py -u USER -p PASSWORD -d /moodle -m https://moodle.epfl.ch/ -y 2023-2024

For speed or storage reasons you can tell the script to not download a specific kind of file:

python main.py -u USER -p PASSWORD -d /moodle -m https://moodlearchive.epfl.ch/2019-2020/ -i mp4 -i mov

argument	short	example
--username	-u	username
--password	-p	superstrongpassword
--moodle_url	-m	https://moodle.epfl.ch/
--academic_year	-y	2023-2024
--storage_dir	-d	/moodle
--ignore_extension	-i	mp4

Planned

Download submission files
Create url files for secondary urls