Downloading Microsoft Ignite Sessions

This year I was not able to visit Microsoft Ignite 2019 but since there are more than 1900 session available for on demand viewing (and I would not have had time to watch the sessions I wanted anyway) that doesn’t really matter. I can always download them and watch them at home. If you hesitate on downloading all of them you can find your sessions/products/speakers of interest on the Ignite site 

To bulk download them you will need a script. I use this one but there are others out there that you can use. For this particular script to work you will need a tool called youtube-dl (which in turn requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) ) and ffmpeg.exe. both tools will be downloaded by the script. In order to run scripts you download (this is done your own risk… only run scripts you trust) you will also need to set the execution policy in PowerShell

I do it for just the specific window that I use:
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process

To download the session I use these script lines:

.\Get-EventSession.ps1 -DownloadFolder 'D:\Microsoft Ignite 2019\' -Product "*Finance*" -Event Ignite -NoSlidedecks
.\Get-EventSession.ps1 -DownloadFolder 'D:\Microsoft Ignite 2019\' -Product "Power Platform" -Event Ignite -NoSlidedecks
.\Get-EventSession.ps1 -DownloadFolder 'D:\Microsoft Ignite 2019\' -Speaker "Jeffrey Snover" -Event Ignite -NoSlidedecks
.\Get-EventSession.ps1 -DownloadFolder 'D:\Microsoft Ignite 2019\' -Speaker "Mark Russinovich" -Event Ignite -NoSlidedecks
.\Get-EventSession.ps1 -DownloadFolder 'D:\Microsoft Ignite 2019\' -Product "Not Product Specific" -Event Ignite -NoSlidedecks

There are a lot of other filter possibilities in the script that you can explore… now, get downloading

Johan

Links:
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Ignite-2016-Slidedeck-and-296df316#content