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Powershell script to download all of Azure Friday videos from RSS feed
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function GetFeedPageCount ($url) { | |
$feed=[xml](New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString($url) | |
$pageCount = $feed.rss.channel.pageCount | |
return $pageCount; | |
} | |
function DownloadFeed ($url) { | |
$feed=[xml](New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString($url) | |
foreach($i in $feed.rss.channel.item) { | |
$url = New-Object System.Uri($i.enclosure.url) | |
$url.ToString() | |
$url.Segments[-1] | |
$localFile = $url.Segments[-1] | |
if (Test-Path($localFile)) { | |
Write-Host "Skipping file, already downloaded" | |
} | |
else | |
{ | |
Invoke-WebRequest $url -OutFile $url.Segments[-1] | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
# This sample code assumes the RSS feed returns a pageCount | |
# eg: rss/channel/pageCount | |
# as well as accepts ?page= as a parameter | |
# | |
# Based on code by Scott Hanselman | |
# Source: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Mix11VideosDownloadThemAllWithRSS.aspx | |
# | |
# Related blog post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cdndevs/archive/2014/11/18/azure-fridays-a-powershell-script-to-download-rss-videos.aspx | |
$feedUrl = "http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday/feed/mp4high" | |
$pageCount = GetFeedPageCount($feedUrl) | |
for ($i = 1; $i -le $pageCount; $i++) { | |
Write-Host "Downloading page $i of $pageCount" | |
DownloadFeed($feedUrl + "?page=" + $i) | |
} |
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