Script for downloading all screencasts on Destroy All Software

das_download.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8


import cookielib

import urllib
import urllib2

import re

import os.path

email    = ''
password = ''

opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cookielib.CookieJar()))
urllib2.install_opener(opener)

base = 'https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/'

def login():

    url = base + 'screencasts/users/sign_in'

    page = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()

    token = re.search('<input name="authenticity_token" type="hidden" value="([\w/\+=]+?)" />', page).group(1)

    values = {
        'utf8':               '✓',
        'authenticity_token': token,
        'user[email]':        email,
        'user[password]':     password,
    }

    data = urllib.urlencode(values)

    req = urllib2.Request(url, data)

    response = urllib2.urlopen(req)

    return response.read()

page = login()

#page = open('screencasts.html', 'r').read()

screencasts = re.findall('<li class="screencast">\s+<a href="(.*?)">(.+?)</a>', page)[::-1]

for i in range(len(screencasts)):
  screencast = screencasts[i]

  url, title = screencast

  filename = 'das-%s-%s.mov' % (str(i + 1).zfill(4), url.rsplit('/', 1)[1])

  url = base + url + '/download'

  print(filename)

  if os.path.exists(filename):
    print('Already downloaded: ' + filename + ' skipping ...')
    continue

  print('Downloading "' + filename + '" ...')
  req = urllib2.Request(url)

  response = urllib2.urlopen(req)

  while 1:
    data = response.read(512)

    if not len(data): break
    else:
      with open(filename, 'ab') as f:
        f.write(data)

Revised script here: https://gist.github.com/AshwinRamesh/e10af8a210f7fbe4b9463b7abbb180ea