The Ultimate Script to download Microsoft Ignite 2016 Videos AND slides !

With the amount of great sessions at Ignite this year, there is no way you could have attended all, and even if they are posted on Channel9 and Youtube, you might want to download them to be able to view them offline! That is why Vlad Catrinescu (SharePoint MVP) created this PowerShell Script so everyone can easily download Microsoft Ignite Videos AND slides whether they were present at Ignite or not! Here are the features:

Downloads all the Microsoft Ignite 2016 Sessions and Slides and description in a text file
Groups them by folders
Makes sure no errors come up due to Illegal File names
If you stop the script and restart in the middle, it will start where it left off and not from beginning
Filter by keywords in the session title
Ability to choose from HD videos, or lower quality

How to use:

First, make sure to change the $downloadlocation variable. By default it saves it all in C:\Ignite

To download all sessions just run the script! (1TB of content in High Definition) EX:

.\ DownloadIgnite2016Content

To download sessions based on a keyword use the keyword parameters, and divide keywords by a comma. Make sure to use quotes around the keywords! EX:

.\ DownloadIgnite2016Content -keyword “Groups,PowerApps,Flow”

To download sessions based on the session code, use the session parameter and divide sessions by a comma. Make sure to use quotes around the session codes!

.\DownloadIgnite2016Content -session “BRK3038,BRK3080,BRK1009”

Note: By default, the videos are downloaded in High Definition. Downloading all the Ignite Videos in HD takes over 1TB of hard drive space. You can change the script (delete two lines, and uncomment two others) in order to download the lower quality version of the videos, which is only about 80 GB.

Download the script from here!

Ref : https://absolute-sharepoint.com/2016/10/the-ultimate-script-to-download-microsoft-ignite-2016-videos-and-slides.html

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