Insights Session PDFs

Is there an easier way to download the Insights session PDFs? I’m doing this on the web and it’s painful … 4 clicks per session and then a couple more to close the window. And that doesn’t count copying/pasting the filename. And after all that, I’m back at the top of the list and have to scroll to find the next one to download! :enraged_face:

The app is horrible and the website experience not much better. Your blog wins best session download UX. :wink:

I gave up on this last year and didn’t even try this year. Not sure why Epicor insists on using such an awful app when there are so many better options available.

I couldn’t stand it.

I can’t post them here because:

  • They don’t belong to me
  • One of the conditions of access to these files is you must have paid for Insights.

I made a program that will download them for you.

  • You will need to log in to the insights spotme app.
  • Click on the Sessions Presentations
  • Open the dev tools, go to the Applications tab
  • Under Storage on the left, find your spotme cookie
  • copy the name, and the value into notepad

Using my program, open a command line window and run it like so:
Usage: InsightsWeb <cookieName> <cookieValue>

2025

Program InsightsWeb.zip (354.6 KB)

Source Program.cs (65.5 KB)

Updated for 2026

Figured that was the case but haven’t seen it in writing.

Shame that each one is not recorded as well… That would be awesome. Being able to watch them back later for the ones that overlapped.

Overlap and underlap at Insights is insane. So many slots w either competing sessions or no sessions for tools track.

So many software conferences get this right. It’s not hard. Set the schedule based on 4 tracks: operations, finance, tools, and upsell. The last of those is clearly the focus at Insights.

Agree on recordings. Put them out some weeks later. Fills some docs/learning gaps.
Charge for them if you must to avoid non-attendance but…

IMO it’s a non-issue.
recording availability = incentive to develop better sessions, new content.
better sessions, content = incentive to attend.

You beat me to it. Nice

Amazing, Kevin! Thank you!! All downloaded in minutes.

Baby Thank You GIF

I wish I had seen this earlier. They archived the event now, so it is no longer possible to get the PDF’s. Oh well, I will have to live with the 20 or so I finished downloading manually :slight_smile:

I tried the webapp today, just in case it might work, but no success. It returned 404 (Not Found) error codes for all of the files now.

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I updated @klincecum’s file for 2026:

Program: InsightsWeb.zip (101.2 KB) - .NET 10

Source: Program.cs (97.1 KB)

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Sorry to be a noob, but what could it mean if I’m getting exceptions for every file?

If I paste the URI with my Session ID I navigate directly to the files, but when I run the program, I get the following for every attempted download:

Response status code does not indicate success: 404 (Not Found)

I logged off, cleared all the cookies, reloaded the page and logged back in. Navigated to ‘Session Presentations,’ grabbed the new cookie name and value, tried again with the same result.

ETA: I meant if I paste the URI directly into the browser using my Session ID, I can successfully access the files. However, when I run the program in Command Prompt with the cookie name and value parameters, I get the above error.

You have to get the cookie name and value from your browser. Then in a command line add them as arguments. You don’t need to put the session URI in. It will download them all.

InsightsWeb <cookieName> <cookieValue>

Sorry for the confusion. Yes, I did do as directed. My comment about the URI was only to indicate that the Session ID was successful in accessing the documents.

Getting this when running the program

Maybe try a different location? I made a folder called temp on my c drive and ran it there and it worked.

Are you sure you’re using Doug’s 2026 version of the program? When I tried last year’s I got an error for almost every file. Exceptions were for sessions with the exact same title as last year :slight_smile:

Good thought, although I should’ve mentioned I had already tried a couple alternate file locations as well. To be sure, I just tried the same C:/temp/ and got the same result:

I’ve never tried it before today, so I only downloaded the version Doug just posted. I can navigate to the current files using the URI builder in the .cs and my Session ID, so I believe I am using this year’s version.

I just tried it again (downloaded again) with a new cookie and value and it works still. Are you on a corporate network? Maybe they are blocking something.