Unshackle - Modular Movie, TV, and Music Archival Software

[stabbedbybrick]

Hi Stabby, HBO MAX releases today in the UK, would it be possible to make a service for that? I do remember you saying it's pretty much identical to the latest DSCP service and you can edit some of the code to make it work so I might have a go at doing that.

Cheers Stabby for you continued support to keep the services up to date.

You can find instructions in the DSCP script on how to convert. It's very easy, you basically just have to replace a few words.

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As for CBS, the incomplete videos is mostly an Unshackle issue. You can work around it for now by using n_m3u8dl_re as downloader, or pulling the feature branch called "unified-downloader" from the official github repo. The possible downside by doing that is other services might break due to core changes having been made. It's getting pretty hard to keep up with all the updates, so I haven't personally tested anything yet.

[Tom Saurus]

Hi Stabby, HBO MAX releases today in the UK, would it be possible to make a service for that? I do remember you saying it's pretty much identical to the latest DSCP service and you can edit some of the code to make it work so I might have a go at doing that.

Cheers Stabby for you continued support to keep the services up to date.

You can find instructions in the DSCP script on how to convert. It's very easy, you basically just have to replace a few words.

###

As for CBS, the incomplete videos is mostly an Unshackle issue. You can work around it for now by using n_m3u8dl_re as downloader, or pulling the feature branch called "unified-downloader" from the official github repo. The possible downside by doing that is other services might break due to core changes having been made. It's getting pretty hard to keep up with all the updates, so I haven't personally tested anything yet.

Thank you for all that you do with the services and thank you for the information you provide on other topics as well.

[kev043]

Hi Stabby, HBO MAX releases today in the UK, would it be possible to make a service for that? I do remember you saying it's pretty much identical to the latest DSCP service and you can edit some of the code to make it work so I might have a go at doing that.

Cheers Stabby for you continued support to keep the services up to date.

You can find instructions in the DSCP script on how to convert. It's very easy, you basically just have to replace a few words.

###

As for CBS, the incomplete videos is mostly an Unshackle issue. You can work around it for now by using n_m3u8dl_re as downloader, or pulling the feature branch called "unified-downloader" from the official github repo. The possible downside by doing that is other services might break due to core changes having been made. It's getting pretty hard to keep up with all the updates, so I haven't personally tested anything yet.

Hi Stabby, thanks for the info, I did follow your instructions to change DSCP to MAX and did have some success but when I used the command to download a series it game me a mix of 720p and 1080p I'll try it again tomorrow and double check I changed all the code correctly.

Cheers Stabby, thanks as always.

[SomeDingus]

https://gofile.io/d/99eSVt

Thank you! My wife will be happy to have these episodes

You can find instructions in the DSCP script on how to convert. It's very easy, you basically just have to replace a few words.

###

As for CBS, the incomplete videos is mostly an Unshackle issue. You can work around it for now by using n_m3u8dl_re as downloader, or pulling the feature branch called "unified-downloader" from the official github repo. The possible downside by doing that is other services might break due to core changes having been made. It's getting pretty hard to keep up with all the updates, so I haven't personally tested anything yet.

Thank you as well! I'll give that "unified-downloader" a try, since CBS is really the only service I use this for.

[PSXman_uk]

Hi Stabby, HBO MAX releases today in the UK, would it be possible to make a service for that? I do remember you saying it's pretty much identical to the latest DSCP service and you can edit some of the code to make it work so I might have a go at doing that.

Cheers Stabby for you continued support to keep the services up to date.

You can find instructions in the DSCP script on how to convert. It's very easy, you basically just have to replace a few words.

###

As for CBS, the incomplete videos is mostly an Unshackle issue. You can work around it for now by using n_m3u8dl_re as downloader, or pulling the feature branch called "unified-downloader" from the official github repo. The possible downside by doing that is other services might break due to core changes having been made. It's getting pretty hard to keep up with all the updates, so I haven't personally tested anything yet.

Hi Stabby, thanks for the info, I did follow your instructions to change DSCP to MAX and did have some success but when I used the command to download a series it game me a mix of 720p and 1080p I'll try it again tomorrow and double check I changed all the code correctly.

Cheers Stabby, thanks as always.

That is correct depending on the show they only have 720p for h.264 if you look at h.265 they have 1080

[kev043]

Cheers for the info PSXman, is there a specific command to download a series in 1080p h265 please? I'm about bit rusty on the command for that.

Thanks I appreciate the help.

[kriata]

Hi. I've a few questions:

1. What're hydration tracks on netflix ?
2. What are the factors that make it possible to obtain it ?, vice versa.
3. Could you give an example of how to obtain it ?, i.e. nf id: 82157128 (vt & unshackle).

Thank you.

[Tom Saurus]

Hi Stabby, HBO MAX releases today in the UK, would it be possible to make a service for that? I do remember you saying it's pretty much identical to the latest DSCP service and you can edit some of the code to make it work so I might have a go at doing that.

Cheers Stabby for you continued support to keep the services up to date.

You can find instructions in the DSCP script on how to convert. It's very easy, you basically just have to replace a few words.

###

As for CBS, the incomplete videos is mostly an Unshackle issue. You can work around it for now by using n_m3u8dl_re as downloader, or pulling the feature branch called "unified-downloader" from the official github repo. The possible downside by doing that is other services might break due to core changes having been made. It's getting pretty hard to keep up with all the updates, so I haven't personally tested anything yet.

I changed my .yaml file to add the line:

# downloader:

# CBS: n_m3u8dl_re

I am not sure Unshackle accepted that. Should I do something in the CBS config file? I got several episodes downloaded file with the full time length and on the newest aired episode it was only ten minutes or so long. Thank you in advance for any guidance.

C:\unshackle>uv run unshackle dl -q 540 -w S02E05 CBS https://www.cbs.com/shows/matlock/

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     Loaded Widevine CDM: 4445 (L3)

  ─────────────────────────────── Service: CBS ───────────────────────────────

     Service is not Geoblocked in your region

  ───────────────────────────── Series: Matlock ──────────────────────────────

     2 seasons, S1(19), S2(11)

  ───────────────────────── Matlock S02E05 Mousetrap ─────────────────────────

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C:\unshackle>uv run unshackle dl -q 720-w S02E06-S02E11 CBS https://www.cbs.com/shows/matlock/

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           v 4.0.0 - © 2025-2026 - github.com/unshackle-dl/unshackle

Usage: unshackle dl [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Try 'unshackle dl -?' for help.

Error: Invalid value for '-q' / '--quality': '720-w' is not a valid integer

C:\unshackle>uv run unshackle dl -q 720 -w S02E06-S02E11 CBS https://www.cbs.com/shows/matlock/

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  ─────────────────────────────── Service: CBS ───────────────────────────────

     Service is not Geoblocked in your region

  ───────────────────────────── Series: Matlock ──────────────────────────────

     2 seasons, S1(19), S2(11)

  ────────────────────── Matlock S02E06 Harm Reduction ───────────────────────

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  ────────────────────── Matlock S02E07 Prior Bad Acts ───────────────────────

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  ───────────────── Matlock S02E08 Call It a Christmas Gift ──────────────────

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  ───────────────────── Matlock S02E10 The Greater Good ──────────────────────

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C:\unshackle>

[ListyDoM]

and on the newest aired episode it was only ten minutes or so long.

https://gofile.io/d/nTvBdI

[Tom Saurus]

and on the newest aired episode it was only ten minutes or so long.

https://gofile.io/d/nTvBdI

Thank you for your kindness. That line of code I wrote about is that one puts in the .yaml to make sure it used N_m3u8DL-RE as the downloader?

[sipho]

I changed my .yaml file to add the line:

# downloader:

# CBS: n_m3u8dl_re

I am not sure Unshackle accepted that. Should I do something in the CBS config file? I got several episodes downloaded file with the full time length and on the newest aired episode it was only ten minutes or so long. Thank you in advance for any guidance.

Well apart from removing the Hash/Pound sign, also make sure there are only 2 spaces as an indent before CBS.

You don't have to change anything in the CBS config.

[Tom Saurus]

I changed my .yaml file to add the line:

# downloader:

# CBS: n_m3u8dl_re

I am not sure Unshackle accepted that. Should I do something in the CBS config file? I got several episodes downloaded file with the full time length and on the newest aired episode it was only ten minutes or so long. Thank you in advance for any guidance.

Well apart from removing the Hash/Pound sign, also make sure there are only 2 spaces as an indent before CBS.

You don't have to change anything in the CBS config.

Thank you I will give that a try.

[timi]

Does anyone know how to fix this

[Tom Saurus]

I changed my .yaml file to add the line:

# downloader:

# CBS: n_m3u8dl_re

I am not sure Unshackle accepted that. Should I do something in the CBS config file? I got several episodes downloaded file with the full time length and on the newest aired episode it was only ten minutes or so long. Thank you in advance for any guidance.

Well apart from removing the Hash/Pound sign, also make sure there are only 2 spaces as an indent before CBS.

You don't have to change anything in the CBS config.

I gave it a try and it caused a failure.

[CODE][/C:\unshackle>uv run unshackle dl -q 720 -w S02E11 CBS https://www.cbs.com/shows/matlock/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Scripts\unshackle.exe\__main__ .py", line 4, in <module>
File "C:\unshackle\unshackle\core\__main__.py", line 14, in <module>
from unshackle.core.commands import Commands
File "C:\unshackle\unshackle\core\commands.py", line 5, in <module>
from unshackle.core.config import config
File "C:\unshackle\unshackle\core\config.py", line 233, in <module>
config = Config.from_yaml(config_path)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\unshackle\core\config.py", line 205, in from_yaml
return cls(**yaml.safe_load(path.read_text(encoding="utf8 ")) or {})
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Lib\site-packages\yaml\__init__.py", line 125, in safe_load
return load(stream, SafeLoader)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Lib\site-packages\yaml\__init__.py", line 81, in load
return loader.get_single_data()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Lib\site-packages\yaml\constructor.py", line 49, in get_single_data
node = self.get_single_node()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Lib\site-packages\yaml\composer.py", line 36, in get_single_node
document = self.compose_document()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Lib\site-packages\yaml\composer.py", line 55, in compose_document
node = self.compose_node(None, None)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Lib\site-packages\yaml\composer.py", line 84, in compose_node
node = self.compose_mapping_node(anchor)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Lib\site-packages\yaml\composer.py", line 127, in compose_mapping_node
while not self.check_event(MappingEndEvent):
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Lib\site-packages\yaml\parser.py", line 98, in check_event
self.current_event = self.state()
^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Lib\site-packages\yaml\parser.py", line 438, in parse_block_mapping_key
raise ParserError("while parsing a block mapping", self.marks[-1],
yaml.parser.ParserError: while parsing a block mapping
in "<unicode string>", line 2, column 1:
set_terminal_bg: false
^
expected <block end>, but found '<block mapping start>'
in "<unicode string>", line 187, column 3:
CBS: n_m3u8dl_re
^

C:\unshackle>CODE]

Update I changed it back and it downloaded but it was only ten minutes of video. It seems to be succeeding in Twinvine.

This is what the downloader portion of main .yaml looks like in Unshackle:

# Choose what software to use to download data
downloader: aria2c
# Options: requests | aria2c | curl_impersonate | n_m3u8dl_re
# Can also be a mapping:
# downloader:
# TUBI: n_m3u8dl_re
# PLUTO: n_m3u8dl_re
# TVNZ: n_m3u8dl_re
# CBC: n_m3u8dl_re
# UKTV: n_m3u8dl_re
# CBS: n_m3u8dl_re
# default: aria2c

There are three spaces between the # and the service name.

[Tom Saurus]

I took a look at my Envied main.yaml and I noticed that when it comes to downloader for data that it had n_m3u8dl_re. Maybe that is why it is getting the CBS videos in their entirety. This using my brain stuff is exhausting but who knows with practice?

[ehurdler]

I changed my .yaml file to add the line:

# downloader:

# CBS: n_m3u8dl_re

I am not sure Unshackle accepted that. Should I do something in the CBS config file? I got several episodes downloaded file with the full time length and on the newest aired episode it was only ten minutes or so long. Thank you in advance for any guidance.

Well apart from removing the Hash/Pound sign, also make sure there are only 2 spaces as an indent before CBS.

You don't have to change anything in the CBS config.

I gave it a try and it caused a failure.

[CODE][/C:\unshackle>uv run unshackle dl -q 720 -w S02E11 CBS https://www.cbs.com/shows/matlock/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<frozen runpy>", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
File "<frozen runpy>", line 88, in _run_code
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Scripts\unshackle.exe\__main__ .py", line 4, in <module>
File "C:\unshackle\unshackle\core\__main__.py", line 14, in <module>
from unshackle.core.commands import Commands
File "C:\unshackle\unshackle\core\commands.py", line 5, in <module>
from unshackle.core.config import config
File "C:\unshackle\unshackle\core\config.py", line 233, in <module>
config = Config.from_yaml(config_path)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\unshackle\core\config.py", line 205, in from_yaml
return cls(**yaml.safe_load(path.read_text(encoding="utf8 ")) or {})
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Lib\site-packages\yaml\__init__.py", line 125, in safe_load
return load(stream, SafeLoader)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Lib\site-packages\yaml\__init__.py", line 81, in load
return loader.get_single_data()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Lib\site-packages\yaml\constructor.py", line 49, in get_single_data
node = self.get_single_node()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Lib\site-packages\yaml\composer.py", line 36, in get_single_node
document = self.compose_document()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Lib\site-packages\yaml\composer.py", line 55, in compose_document
node = self.compose_node(None, None)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Lib\site-packages\yaml\composer.py", line 84, in compose_node
node = self.compose_mapping_node(anchor)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Lib\site-packages\yaml\composer.py", line 127, in compose_mapping_node
while not self.check_event(MappingEndEvent):
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Lib\site-packages\yaml\parser.py", line 98, in check_event
self.current_event = self.state()
^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\unshackle\.venv\Lib\site-packages\yaml\parser.py", line 438, in parse_block_mapping_key
raise ParserError("while parsing a block mapping", self.marks[-1],
yaml.parser.ParserError: while parsing a block mapping
in "<unicode string>", line 2, column 1:
set_terminal_bg: false
^
expected <block end>, but found '<block mapping start>'
in "<unicode string>", line 187, column 3:
CBS: n_m3u8dl_re
^

C:\unshackle>CODE]

Update I changed it back and it downloaded but it was only ten minutes of video. It seems to be succeeding in Twinvine.

This is what the downloader portion of main .yaml looks like in Unshackle:

# Choose what software to use to download data
downloader: aria2c
# Options: requests | aria2c | curl_impersonate | n_m3u8dl_re
# Can also be a mapping:
# downloader:
# TUBI: n_m3u8dl_re
# PLUTO: n_m3u8dl_re
# TVNZ: n_m3u8dl_re
# CBC: n_m3u8dl_re
# UKTV: n_m3u8dl_re
# CBS: n_m3u8dl_re
# default: aria2c

There are three spaces between the # and the service name.

So from this your default is aria2c because you have everything else commented out with the "#" as sipho pointed out.

Either uncomment out your CBS, or just change

downloader: aria2c

To

downloader: n_m3u8dl_re

or

downloader: n_m3u8dl_re
#downloader: aria2c

Just remove the "#" each time you need to switch between n_m3u8dl_re or aria2c as your downloader

uv run unshackle dl -q 540 -w S02E05 CBS https://www.cbs.com/shows/matlock/

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                █▌▐█▌▐█▐▐▌▄▀▀▀█▄██▀▐█▄█▀▀█ ██ ▄▄▐▀▀▄·██▪  ▐▀▀▪▄
                ▐█▄█▌██▐█▌▐█▄▪▐███▌▐▀▐█ ▪▐▌▐███▌▐█.█▌▐█▌▐▌▐█▄▄▌
                 ▀▀▀ ▀▀ █▪ ▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀ · ▀  ▀ ·▀▀▀ ·▀  ▀.▀▀▀  ▀▀▀
           v 4.0.0 - © 2025-2026 - github.com/unshackle-dl/unshackle

     Service Config loaded
     Loaded 1/1 Vaults
     Loaded Widevine CDM: 4464 (L3)
     Loaded Basic: 3 Countries (3 Servers)

  ─────────────────────────────── Service: CBS ───────────────────────────────

     Service is not Geoblocked in your region

  ───────────────────────────── Series: Matlock ──────────────────────────────

     2 seasons, S1(19), S2(11)

  ───────────────────────── Matlock S02E05 Mousetrap ─────────────────────────

     Cached 1 Key to 1/1 Vaults

     1 Video
     └── [H.264, SDR] | en-US | 960x540 @ 1588 kb/s, 23.976 FPS
          ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • 00:07 • Downloaded
     1 Audio
     └── [DD+] | en-US | 6.0 | 194 kb/s | United States
          ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • 00:05 • Downloaded
     1 Subtitle
     └── [WVTT] | en-US | United States
          ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • 00:10 • Downloaded
     2 Chapters
     ├── 00:00:00.000
     └── 00:42:24.000 | Credits

     Widevine(AAAAWHBzc2gAAAAA7e+LqXnWSs6jyCfc1R0h7QAAADgIARIQ+C3qqEkHR...)
     └── f82deaa84907462b865295d8ba170054:5d9c9039e76b1be5bf8767065d1fb323*

     Track downloads finished in 0m13s
     Multiplexing...  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • 00:01

     🎉 Title downloaded in 0m16s!

     Processed all titles in 0m16s

[Tom Saurus]

Thank you ehurdler I will give it a try and see how it works.

I tested putting n_m3u8dl_re in after downloader and it seems to have worked.

[ryanvo2000]

Has anyone have issues downloading some miniseries documentary titles off from CBC Gem?

For example I can't grab Bad Nanny (2-episode miniseries) which CBC only says "Parts" instead of "Episodes", which is why it can't be downloaded plus Bad Nanny seems to be DRM protected (for selected titles only) according to yt-dlp.

uv run unshackle dl -w s01e01 CBC https://gem.cbc.ca/bad-nanny/s01e01

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                █▪██▌•█▌▐█▐█ ▀. ██▪▐█▐█ ▀█ ▐█ ▌▪█▌▄▌▪██•  ▀▄.▀·
                █▌▐█▌▐█▐▐▌▄▀▀▀█▄██▀▐█▄█▀▀█ ██ ▄▄▐▀▀▄·██▪  ▐▀▀▪▄
                ▐█▄█▌██▐█▌▐█▄▪▐███▌▐▀▐█ ▪▐▌▐███▌▐█.█▌▐█▌▐▌▐█▄▄▌
                 ▀▀▀ ▀▀ █▪ ▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀ · ▀  ▀ ·▀▀▀ ·▀  ▀.▀▀▀  ▀▀▀
           v 4.0.0 - © 2025-2026 - github.com/unshackle-dl/unshackle

     Service Config loaded
     Loaded 0/0 Vaults
     Loaded Widevine CDM: 22589 (L3)

  ─────────────────────────────── Service: CBC ───────────────────────────────

     Service is not Geoblocked in your region
      + Using cached tokens
     Authenticated with Service
     No episodes found for: Bad Nanny
     No titles returned, nothing to download...

I do hope stabbedbybrick would update this.

[iamghost]

Has anyone have issues downloading some miniseries documentary titles off from CBC Gem?

I have same like you, It happen some of cbc videos.
here 2 episodes...
https://gofile.io/d/Tus1RB

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

removed - updated below.

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

I've pushed a proper CBC update for envied users.

[Attachment 91886 - Click to enlarge]
to the TwinVine suite on github https://github.com/vinefeeder/TwinVine
Now the CBC episode title is written and downloaded correctly for media that announce 'parts' rather than episodes.
I imagine SBB will do similar for unshackle.