blackboard-dl
Version, currently master branch1 version
- master branchlatestJan 20, 2020
github.com/hako/blackboard-dl
📚💻 Downloads lectures and workshops automagically.
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License: MIT
Installation
# Add this to your shard.yml
dependencies:
blackboard-dl:
github: hako/blackboard-dl
branch: mastermaster is a branch, not a release, so this tracks it rather than pinning a version.
Then run:
shards installshard.yml
- Crystal
- no constraint declared
- License
- MIT
- Author
- Wesley Hill <wesley@hakobaito.co.uk>
Dependencies
Runtime Dependencies
Development Dependencies
- webmock*github: manastech/webmock.cr, branch: masterdev
README
# blackboard-dl [](https://travis-ci.org/hako/blackboard-dl)
A small tool to download lectures and workshops automagically because i'm too lazy to sign in to BlackBoard.

## Requirements
+ [Crystal 0.24.1+](https://crystal-lang.org)
+ [Installation Mac/Linux](https://crystal-lang.org) (Sorry Windows users!)
+ Your university must have BlackBoard.
## Install
```
git clone https://github.com/hako/blackboard-dl
crystal dep or shards install
crystal build src/blackboard-dl.cr
./blackboard-dl
```
## Usage
```
usage: blackboard-dl [-h] [-d] [-u USERNAME] [-p PASSWORD] [--version]
download course files from blackboard.
optional arguments:
-u USERNAME, --username Blackboard username
-p PASSWORD, --password Blackboard password
-d, --daemon Run as daemon
-h, --help Show this help
-v, --version Show program version
```
### Examples
##### Auto-login
```
./blackboard-dl -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD
```
##### Auto-login and daemonize
```
./blackboard-dl -d -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD
```
And now watch it download your lectures & workshops in the terminal or in the background.
## Tests
```
crystal dep or shards install
crystal spec
```
## Contributing
1. Fork it ( https://github.com/hako/blackboard-dl/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request
## Contributors
- [hako](https://github.com/hako) Wesley Hill - creator, maintainer
### License
MIT
Documentation
Built from the current release. The first visit to a release nobody has asked for starts its build.
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Repository
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- Created
- Aug 12, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 13, 2026
- Synced
- Aug 13, 2026
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