Download all the GSEUK19 slides

allTheSlides.py

import urllib2
import string

print "let's download all the GSEUK19 slides we can..."

for a in string.ascii_uppercase:
    for b in string.ascii_uppercase:
        for ext in ['pdf', 'ppt', 'pptx', 'doc']:
            deck = "%s%s.%s" % (a,b,ext)
            url = "http://conferences.gse.org.uk/2019/presentations/%s" % deck
            print "Trying to get %s" % url,
            status = "ok"
            try:
                coolslidesdata = urllib2.urlopen(url)
            except:
                status = "meh"
                print " Meh"
            if status == "ok":
                print " Gotcha!"
                coolslides = coolslidesdata.read()
                with open(deck, 'wb') as slidedeck:
                    slidedeck.write(coolslides)