A python script to download all the TED videos

down_ted_vids.py

import urllib2
import urllib
#import re
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

""" 
Download this file in html version 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsKzpC8gYBmTcGpHbFlILThBSzhmZkRhNm8yYllsWGc&hl=en#gid=0"
"""
url = "The URL of above file" # url = "file:///home/jay/Downloads/index.html"

proxy = {"http":"http://user:pass@proxy:port/","https":"https://http://user:pass@proxy:port/"}
Proxy = urllib2.ProxyHandler(proxy)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(Proxy)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
page=urllib.urlopen(url)
soup=BeautifulSoup(page.read())

links=[]
hrefs = soup.findAll("a",{"target":True,"href":True,"style":True})
for link in hrefs:
    #print link.contents
    links.append(link.contents[0])
for vids in links:
    page = urllib2.urlopen(vids)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(page.read())
#print soup.prettify()
    vid_link = soup.find("meta",{"property":"og:video","content":True})["content"]
    print vid_link
    print "Downloading",vid_link.split("/")[-1]
    f = open(vid_link.split("/")[-1],"wb")
    f.write(opener.open(vid_link).read())
    f.close()