[Tools-discuss] Re: Download entire transcript from meetecho

[Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM Robert Sparks <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I followed up with Eric and I think he's unblocked.
>
> The original question was how to get to the transcripts (which I think
> meant the chatlogs),
>
No. I mean the autogenerated session transcripts.

and I wanted to point out that an easy way to get all of the chatlogs for a
> meeting is:
>
> rsync -a rsync.ietf.org::proceedings/123/chatlog/ chatlog/
>
This actually isn't really that convenient in this case, because I'm
running this
from a larger script. Running rsync means that I need to run rsync in a
subprocess,
then enumerate the entries in the directory, then clean up the files at the
end.
Rather, what I want is to be able to get all of this from an HTTP API.

-Ekr


RjS
> On 10/9/25 8:27 AM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>
> That sounds great. In the meantime, can you fix whatever problem is
> preventing me from accessing these pages?
>
> -Ekr
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 6:23 AM Robert Sparks <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ekr-
>>
>> We're aware and are expecting to move to serving the meeting material
>> views with no challenges at all during the week next week. Reworking how
>> the main proceedings page itself is served will be a different effort and
>> may come later than that, but we expect to remove the challenges from it
>> before the meeting.
>>
>> RjS
>> On 10/9/25 4:14 AM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>>
>> Some URLs on the datatracker seem to still have some kind of bot blocking,
>> even with a botname that is supposed to be allowlisted.
>>
>> Consider the the following code:
>>
>> import requests
>>
>> headers = {"User-Agent": "ietf-agenda/0.1 (+
>> https://github.com/ekr/ietf-agenda)"}
>>
>> URL = "https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/proceedings"
>> URL2 = "https://datatracker.ietf.org/api/meeting/124/agenda-data"
>>
>> print(requests.get(URL).status_code)
>> print(requests.get(URL2).status_code)
>>
>> When run, this produces:
>>
>> 403
>> 200
>>
>> Sending this both to tools-discuss for awareness and tools-help to get
>> the block fixed.
>>
>> -Ekr
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there an official API endpoint to download the entire transcript
>>> for a meeting from meetecho?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Ekr
>>>
>>>
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