README

Updated 5/13/2014 by ctrlaltdel121
Originally via zszafran/MyCourses-Scraper

[Purpose]
This python script will login to your MyCourses account and navigate its way through each course. When in a course, this script will dump all the news, course content and dropbox submissions to your output location. After running the script you should have a directory that represents each course which will contain all of that course's content.

NOTE 5/13/14: I never fixed news, only dropbox and some courses's content sections work.

[Usage]
python mycourses.py -h
python mycourses.py --output ~/mycourses_dump --crossdomain --news --content --dropbox --verbose 2 --delay 0 --zip
python mycourses.py --output ~/mycourses_dump --crossdomain --content --dropbox --verbose 1 --delay 0
python mycourses.py --output ~/mycourses_dump --content --dropbox --zip
python mycourses.py --output ~/mycourses_dump --content --dropbox

[Required Software & Packages]
Python 2.7.1
lxml
pyquery
demjson

[Ubuntu Server Installation]

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev python-lxml python-pyquery python-httplib2 python-demjson

[Windows 7 64-bit Installation]

Download and install python 2.7.1 64-bit: http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.1/python-2.7.1.amd64.msi
Download easy_install 64-bit to python directory: http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py
Install easy_install: C:\Python27>python ez_setup.py
Install lxml: C:\Python27\Scripts>easy_install.exe lxml
Install pyquery: C:\Python27\Scripts>easy_install.exe pyquery
Install demjson: C:\Python27\Scripts>easy_install.exe demjson

C:\Python27>python mycourses.py --output c:\mycourses --dropbox --content --verbose 2 --delay 0