Unshackle - Modular Movie, TV, and Music Archival Software

[readerr0r]

TVNZ have revamped their whole backend and started to move away from brightcove. The currently used API might continue to work for a while, but could potentially provide lower quality streams than the new version where 1080p and dolby audio seem more widely available at first glance.

I've messed around a bit and reversed most of the new API, but I'm not sure when I'll have a coherent script out. I'll drop a message in here when I get it sorted.

I've cobbled together some vibecoded slop on this, but one thing I noticed is the general trend of streaming services using local storage in browser vs cookies for auth tokens. Have you happened to find much work around for that?

Looks like iPlayer have also made some changes and now maxes out at 720p again too.

[AFK88L]

And on another note SBS have removed their previous api. Downloads now require a login to obtain a token. I'm updating Ozivine at the moment.
@stabbedbybrick if you want any detail to update Unshackle let me know.

Brilliant @billybanana - thank you! Confirmed your updated Ozivine is working for SBS again.

Hopefully @stabbedbybrick will have an update for his unshackle services soon too.

[stabbedbybrick]

TVNZ have revamped their whole backend and started to move away from brightcove. The currently used API might continue to work for a while, but could potentially provide lower quality streams than the new version where 1080p and dolby audio seem more widely available at first glance.

I've messed around a bit and reversed most of the new API, but I'm not sure when I'll have a coherent script out. I'll drop a message in here when I get it sorted.

I've cobbled together some vibecoded slop on this, but one thing I noticed is the general trend of streaming services using local storage in browser vs cookies for auth tokens. Have you happened to find much work around for that?

Looks like iPlayer have also made some changes and now maxes out at 720p again too.

Extracting the local storage is just as easy as with cookies, with the main difference being that you generally can't share the session in the same way. If you refresh the auth tokens in a script, the browser session will become invalid and log you out - and vice versa. So if you plan on using a service for both streaming and ripping, the smoothest way is probably to have separate accounts for each. But aside from that, things are pretty similar to when using credentials. Just pull the auth from storage and have the session live and refresh in the script cache instead.

IPlayer is still giving me 1080p and 2160p on the expected titles, so might've just been a hiccup.

[sipho]

@stabbedbybrick Any chance of a service for crave.ca please? ctv.ca will be shutdown at the end of April.

[readerr0r]

Extracting the local storage is just as easy as with cookies, with the main difference being that you generally can't share the session in the same way. If you refresh the auth tokens in a script, the browser session will become invalid and log you out - and vice versa. So if you plan on using a service for both streaming and ripping, the smoothest way is probably to have separate accounts for each. But aside from that, things are pretty similar to when using credentials. Just pull the auth from storage and have the session live and refresh in the script cache instead.

IPlayer is still giving me 1080p and 2160p on the expected titles, so might've just been a hiccup.

Of course, I didn't think browsing on the site would be booting my captured local storage sessions, thanks for the hint! Plus you were right about iPlayer, cheers