Below is a super simple (hardly resilient) PDC downloader. Feel free to compile and tweak it to your hearts content.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml.Linq;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
public class Video
{
public string title;
public string description;
public string url;
}
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var doc = XDocument.Load("http://videoak.microsoftpdc.com/pdc_schedule/Schedule.xml");
var sessions = doc.Descendants("Sessions").Descendants("Session").Where(session => session.Descendants("DownloadableContent").Descendants("Content").Where(content=> content.Attribute("Title").Value.ToLower().Contains("mp4 high")).Count() > 0);
var videos = sessions.Select(s =>
new Video()
{
title = s.Descendants("ShortTitle").Single().Value,
description = s.Descendants("ShortDescription").Single().Value,
url =
s.Descendants("DownloadableContent").Descendants("Content").Where(
content =>
content.Attribute("Title").Value.ToLower().Contains("mp4 high"))
.First().Attribute("Url").Value
});
var downloadableVideos = videos.ToList<Video>();
var failedLog = new List<Video>();
for (var count = 0; count < downloadableVideos.Count; count++)
{
var video = downloadableVideos[count];
try
{
DownloadFile(video);
}
catch
{
Log("Failed to download " + video.title);
try
{
var path = video.title + ".mp4";
if (File.Exists(path))
{
File.Delete(path);
}
}
catch
{
Log("Failed to delete " + video.title+ ".mp4");
}
}
}
var x = failedLog.Count;
}
private static void Log(string msg)
{
Console.WriteLine(msg);
}
private static void DownloadFile(Video video)
{
if (!System.IO.File.Exists(video.title + ".mp4"))
{
var webClient = new System.Net.WebClient();
Log("Downloading " + video.title);
webClient.DownloadFile(video.url, video.title + ".mp4");
}
else
{
Log("Skipping " + video.title + " - it has already been downloaded");
}
}
}
}
