Unshackle - Modular Movie, TV, and Music Archival Software

[iamghost]

try update sbs service
work on my machine..

OK will try that. In the meantime I took the liberty of DMing you -hope that's OK.

https://gofile.io/d/ScC7z1

[nbcShackled]

https://pastes.io/2KzlJJd2
https://pastes.io/XXXk8hqv

[SaLTy]

SBS is no longer working for me. Not sure if it's my VPN or unshackle. Any good Samaritans around to grab something for me? Please DM me

Do you keep getting

ConnectionError: Failed to request the M3U(8) document.

That's what I get. One day it will work fine and the other it doesn't. Think it may be the VPN.

[Tom Saurus]

I hadn't checked out CBC for quite a while and I updated to the latest stabbedbybrick services and I just added a Cookie for CBC in the Cookie folder to try to remedy this problem:

ConnectionError: 400 -
{"error":"invalid_grant","error_description":"AADB 2C90080: The provided grant
has expired. Please re-authenticate and try again. Current time: 1780320496,
Grant issued time: 1775424010, Grant expiration time: 1778102410\r\nCorrelation
ID: bc4c2456-3734-46a8-9e30-438b4de8b308\r\nTimestamp: 2026-06-01
13:28:16Z\r\n"}

Is anyone else having problems with CBC? Thanks in advance on how I can remedy this and get CBC working again.

I did some thinking and removed my tokens from the Cache CBC folder. Unshackle got new tokens and things seem to be fine.

[phased]

https://pastes.io/2KzlJJd2
https://pastes.io/XXXk8hqv

Thank you!

[PunchDrunkL0ve]

try update sbs service
work on my machine..

OK will try that. In the meantime I took the liberty of DMing you -hope that's OK.

https://gofile.io/d/ScC7z1

Thank you!

[PunchDrunkL0ve]

SBS is no longer working for me. Not sure if it's my VPN or unshackle. Any good Samaritans around to grab something for me? Please DM me

Do you keep getting

ConnectionError: Failed to request the M3U(8) document.

That's what I get. One day it will work fine and the other it doesn't. Think it may be the VPN.

That's the one, but haven't had the change to update the service yet so can't rule that out either.

[SaLTy]

SBS is no longer working for me. Not sure if it's my VPN or unshackle. Any good Samaritans around to grab something for me? Please DM me

Do you keep getting

ConnectionError: Failed to request the M3U(8) document.

That's what I get. One day it will work fine and the other it doesn't. Think it may be the VPN.

That's the one, but haven't had the change to update the service yet so can't rule that out either.

I'm using the latest service so don't think it's that

[iamghost]

its vpn, I use expressvpn and get

ConnectionError: Failed to request the M3U(8) document.

windscribe vpn work fine

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[SaLTy]

its vpn, I use expressvpn and get

ConnectionError: Failed to request the M3U(8) document.

windscribe vpn work fine

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Thought it was the VPN. I use NordVPN, are you using the free plan for Windscribe?

[iamghost]

no I paid for it

[SummerArk]

Everyone,

I just noticed that unshackle version 5.1.0 has just been released.
https://github.com/unshackle-dl/unshackle/releases/tag/5.1.0

This is what I approximately did to upgrade. I ran each line, one line at a time.

uv self update

uv lock --upgrade
uv sync --upgrade

git status
git restore uv.lock  (IF NECESSARY)

git fetch origin tag 5.1.0 --no-tags
git merge 5.1.0
git describe --tags --exact-match HEAD

uv lock --upgrade
uv sync --upgrade

If anyone has a simpler, better, or more elegant way, then I want to know about it.

[phased]

Everyone,

I just noticed that unshackle version 5.1.0 has just been released.

This is what I approximately did to upgrade. I ran each line, one line at a time.

If anyone has a simpler, better, or more elegant way, then I want to know about it.

Surely, if you installed unshackle originally by cloning the repo with git clone, etc. All you now need do is

git pull
uv lock
uv sync

And you are done. Is that not the case?

[WhiskeyJack]

Everyone,

I just noticed that unshackle version 5.1.0 has just been released.
https://github.com/unshackle-dl/unshackle/releases/tag/5.1.0

This is what I approximately did to upgrade. I ran each line, one line at a time.

uv self update

uv lock --upgrade
uv sync --upgrade

git status
git restore uv.lock  (IF NECESSARY)

git fetch origin tag 5.1.0 --no-tags
git merge 5.1.0
git describe --tags --exact-match HEAD

uv lock --upgrade
uv sync --upgrade

If anyone has a simpler, better, or more elegant way, then I want to know about it.

if installed as a system wide tool using uv tool install
running
uv tool install git+https://github.com/unshackle-dl/unshackle.git

will update easily for you

if you wish to switch to the dev branch
uv tool install git+https://github.com/unshackle-dl/unshackle.git@dev

will pull frm the dev branch

[Tom Saurus]

I just type:

git pull
uv sync

I will have to research uv lock. I think I will wait a bit before upgrading in the event others run into some kind of problem when they upgrade.

[SummerArk]

Surely, if you installed unshackle originally by cloning the repo with git clone, etc. All you now need do is

git pull
uv lock
uv sync

And you are done. Is that not the case?

if installed as a system wide tool using uv tool install
running

uv tool install git+https://github.com/unshackle-dl/unshackle.git

will update easily for you

if you wish to switch to the dev branch

uv tool install git+https://github.com/unshackle-dl/unshackle.git@dev

will pull frm the dev branch

I just type:

git pull
uv sync

I will have to research uv lock. I think I will wait a bit before upgrading in the event others run into some kind of problem when they upgrade.

Thanks Everyone.

[Tom Saurus]

On my older computer I upgraded to the new version. Things are not working with stuff like "could not find a 265 resource for this title" or "fr not found in audio tracks" coming up when one tries to download.

Some advice is appreciated thank you in advance.

[sipho]

On my older computer I upgraded to the new version. Things are not working with stuff like "could not find a 265 resource for this title" or "fr not found in audio tracks" coming up when one tries to download.

Look in your unshackle.yaml for "fr" and comment out that line.

[PunchDrunkL0ve]

Surely, if you installed unshackle originally by cloning the repo with git clone, etc. All you now need do is

git pull
uv lock
uv sync

And you are done. Is that not the case?

if installed as a system wide tool using uv tool install
running

uv tool install git+https://github.com/unshackle-dl/unshackle.git

will update easily for you

if you wish to switch to the dev branch

uv tool install git+https://github.com/unshackle-dl/unshackle.git@dev

will pull frm the dev branch

I just type:

git pull
uv sync

I will have to research uv lock. I think I will wait a bit before upgrading in the event others run into some kind of problem when they upgrade.

Thanks Everyone.

If you're like me and you make changes to your local files (and forget about them )
run

git stash

before everything else

[Tom Saurus]

On my older computer I upgraded to the new version. Things are not working with stuff like "could not find a 265 resource for this title" or "fr not found in audio tracks" coming up when one tries to download.

Look in your unshackle.yaml for "fr" and comment out that line.

I will give that a try. "fr" there is a line about that down in subtitles. Commenting out from what I gather is when you put a # at the beginning of the line to tell Unshackle to ignore that line of code. Thank you for the information you provided.

[plasticpillow]

Hi guys,

I made mistakes and need to remove unshackle from my system (linux), how would one go about that?

cheers, PLASTiC.

Edit: i installed it using the old method and new method.

[kev043]

Hi there guys, I've done a fresh install of the latest unshackle with the latest services it all starts okay but when I run a download command, the ones I tested gave an error of

fr not found in audio tracks

I think I have all the correct dependencies installed and in path. Has anyone came across this error.

Thanks very much for the help.

Ah that weird just as I posted this I read the above post

I will give that a try. "fr" there is a line about that down in subtitles. Commenting out from what I gather is when you put a # at the beginning of the line to tell Unshackle to ignore that line of code. Thank you for the information you provided.

Thanks - Tom Saurus

[iamghost]

Add --list to see what audio is available

[YmFzZTY0]

There are also issues of running v5 with some v4 created services, as discussed in principle on sparky's discord platform

But actual service discussion is not permitted on the discord, so if this is the case, you will have to seek help from whoever you got your services from in the first place, if you don't author your own.

[sipho]

There are also issues of running v5 with some v4 created services, as discussed in principle on sparky's discord platform

Do you have a link please? Or invite?

[kev043]

There are also issues of running v5 with some v4 created services, as discussed in principle on sparky's discord platform

But actual service discussion is not permitted on the discord, so if this is the case, you will have to seek help from whoever you got your services from in the first place, if you don't author your own.

I tested DSCP latest service of Stabby's but I'm getting an error on unshackle v5

[kev043]

There are also issues of running v5 with some v4 created services, as discussed in principle on sparky's discord platform

But actual service discussion is not permitted on the discord, so if this is the case, you will have to seek help from whoever you got your services from in the first place, if you don't author your own.

I had an error on Stabby's latest DSCP on unshackle v5 which worked fine on the v4 hopefully he will update them. Fingers crossed. Cheers Stabby.

[YmFzZTY0]

There are also issues of running v5 with some v4 created services, as discussed in principle on sparky's discord platform

Do you have a link please? Or invite?

Its on the main page of the git repo

https://github.com/unshackle-dl/unshackle

[Tom Saurus]

I found this works:

uv run unshackle dl --vcodec h.264 --lang en --s-lang en TUBI url of TV show or movie

I went into Devine Usage Arguements documents that had a list of commands and looked at. See you are telling unshackle to get h.264, you want English Audio and for your subtitles to be in English. You can further define things with your -q command to select the resolution you want and -w the range of videos you want.

I haven't upgraded Unshackle on my newer mini pc yet but this worked on my older mini pc where I have upgraded to the newest version of Unshackle.

[WhiskeyJack]

As of late in the Unshackle thread there is a discussion about some Services are having a problem working in the newest version of Unshackle I have found that my giving more detailed instructions to Unshackle I was able to get a video from TUBI.

I found this works:

uv run unshackle dl --vcodec h.264 --lang en --s-lang en TUBI url of TV show or movie

I went into Devine Usage Arguements documents that had a list of commands and looked at. See you are telling unshackle to get h.264, you want English Audio and for your subtitles to be in English. You can further define things with your -q command to select the resolution you want and -w the range of videos you want.

I haven't upgraded Unshackle on my newer mini pc yet but this worked on my older mini pc where I have upgraded to the newest version of Unshackle.

As far as I know for Envied you would just substitute "envied" for "unshackle" and it should work.

If you look at you unshackle.yaml (the config file found with unshackle env info) you'll find the option to default the auio to your choice, at present you most likely have -en -fr
comment out or delete the -fr
it's around line 334

 #Pre-define default options and switches of the dl command
dl:
  sub_format: srt
  downloads: 4
  workers: 16
  lang:
    - en
#    - fr
  EXAMPLE:
    bitrate: CBR

No need after that to manually select the languge.
The language arg you list above will still work after this.