I'm facing a bit of a dilemma with my online course resources. I've been using a secured Canvas site for my Japanese course, which contains a lot of exercises and materials, including several links to SharePoint sites where my teacher has uploaded audio files and documents. Since they're planning to remove last year's content, I want to save everything for future reference. I managed to save the webpage using Firefox, but it only keeps the HTML without downloading the linked SharePoint attachments. Is there a way to save the entire page that includes these SharePoint files? There are way too many links with poorly named files for me to download them all manually. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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As someone who used to work in higher education, I’d recommend reaching out to your professor or the IT department. They might be able to give you access to download all the course materials directly. If that's not an option, then yeah, TechSavvy507 is right about using PowerShell for hosting and pulling the data, but that could get complicated.
Honestly, unless you have a dedicated tool for scraping that knows how to handle SharePoint's authentication, it might be tough. If you end up going the manual route, you'll find you need to change each SharePoint link in the saved HTML to point to wherever you've stored the files. You could potentially automate this with a script using PowerShell or CMD once you have the files saved elsewhere. Just note, it can be tricky to download content that requires a login, so a solid grasp of the command line will come in handy.
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