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Extracting Text From Rise 360
Hi,
we've been working on RISE 360 projects where the customer no longer has the original script and we need to record voiceover.
We've gone through a number of tests to try to extract the text to see what might be the best and most efficient way.
In the end we've stuck with copy and paste! Does anyone have any ideas. We've posted about the ways we've used to extract text from Rise 360
We did use XLIFF files and translation software but copy and paste came out the winner.
You can just decode the course contents. It's encoded as Base64.
1.) Unzip the course.
2.) Open index.html in any editor.
3.) Search for window.courseData =
4.) You'll find a set of quote marks with a bunch of gibberish in between them. Copy everything within the quote marks.
5.) Go to https://www.base64decode.org/ and decode the gibberish.
6.) Go to https://unminify.com/ and unminify the decoded content. This will make it easier to read.
7.) Now you've got all of the text from inside your course, so you can grab the bits you need for the voice over. You can even make changes to it, then re-encode it as base64, put it back in to index.html and rezip your course.
hi Simon, I can't find any index.html in the zipped folder. The only html files are "imsmanifest" and "metadata" and they don't seem to contain the course text. There is also an "index_scorm" file but it's very short, opens in the browser and only shows a loading animation.
Hi Claudia,
Since you're publishing to LMS, you'll find the index.html inside the scormcontent folder. Let me know if you have any questions!
Thank you so much for posting this tip and instructions. I have a Rise course with dozens of URLs that needed a quick update to a new server name. Much easier to do this way than one by one. Appreciated!
Not sure if this would be faster than your copy/paste approach, but I have another method that will take a Rise 360 course and convert the XLIFF file to Excel without the XML components that you would expect to find when opening the XLIFF directly in Excel.
If you're interested, please reach out to me with a private message or connect with me on LinkedIn.
Thor
If you are not able to find "window.courseData = " look for und.js in your exported course. But you need to decode in order to edit, and then encode the content again. Keep in mind Rise is closed-source, so you're not meant to actually do this. But it's possible. :)
