README.md

In duncantl/ZoomRecordings: Download Zoom recordings

This allows one to programmatically get meta-data about the recordings in your zoom account and to programmatically download them. It appears that some Zoom accounts may have an option to download recordings in bulk, but mine does not and I needed to download the recordings from my course (lectures and office hours).

It works, but no frills - yet!

Usage

First fetch the cookie from the Web browser and save it in the file named "cookie" in your working directory. You can do this via the Network tab in the browser's developer tools. Alternatively, you can fetch it from the Web browser's (SQLite3) database using the RBrowserCookies package.

We first get the meta-data about the recordings with getRecInfo():

library(ZoomRecordings)

info = getRecInfo()

This returns a data.frame.

We access the meetingId column with the getMeetingIds() function -

mids = getMeetingIds(info)

Now wecheck we can download one video directly and write it to a file:

tmp = downloadVideo(mids[1])
writeRawToFile(tmp, info[[1]]$meetingStartTimeStr)

Now we download all of them and save to them to a different directory

TargetDirectory = "/Volumes/T5/Sta141B/ZoomRecordings"
filenames = format(getMeetingTime(info), "%d_%b_%Y_%H:%M.mpa")
status = invisible(mapply(function(mid, file) {
                    message(mid, " to ", file)
                    tmp = downloadVideo(mid)
                    try( Gradhub::savePDF(tmp, file))
                },  mids, file.path(TargetDirectory, filenames)))

Notes

• I added a long timeout (10 minutes) as I was running this through a VPN and it was slow. You could probably have a shorter timeout.

• We can extend this to get the

• chat
• audio
• transcript
• analytics

duncantl/ZoomRecordings documentation built on Jan. 1, 2021, 12:08 a.m.