Unshackle - Modular Movie, TV, and Music Archival Software

[Tom Saurus]

The Pluto website is a new layout now and I am running into a Unshackle issue:

uv run unshackle dl --list-titles PLUTO https://pluto.tv/us/shows/the-beverly-hillbillies-cbs-tv/

This ends up with a ValueError: could not parse I.D. from title is the url correct?

Thank you in advance for any advice on this issue.

Your top-level url is incorrect:

uv run unshackle dl -w S1E1 PLUTO https://pluto.tv/us/on-demand/series/5fb80beee8b7e6001a753aa8

To list titles:

uv run unshackle dl --list-titles PLUTO https://pluto.tv/us/on-demand/series/5fb80beee8b7e6001a753aa8

[Attachment 93237 - Click to enlarge]

Thank you for your post. The On Demand tab doesn't seem to be there anymore when I visit the Pluto TV website. Thankfully the movies give this more detailed URL. I have to look into this more. Update I did a web search and got a link to the Pluto US On Demand so will see what happens with that. I had Pluto TV in my Browser Favourites and it must of got outdated.

[YmFzZTY0]

A couple of tips, applies to all services:

Do a search on-site (not google) for the whole series to get the upper level url - then use the -w command in your syntax for the season you want; rather than site search for a particular season.

Don't use the url when the vod's playing, use the url from the page before.

Do searches on justwatch.com and hover over 'Play' urls - especially useful for getting GTI's for Amazon vods.

(I also think some sites deliberately obfuscate top level series urls.)

[Tom Saurus]

Thank you for the tips.

[iamghost]

use search to get correct video ID

uv run unshackle search pluto "The Beverly Hillbillies"

  ────────────────────────────── Service: PLUTO ──────────────────────────────

     Service has no Geofence

  ──────────────────────────── 89 Search Results ─────────────────────────────

     Return of the Beverly Hillbillies  movie
     id: /movies/674610dde835570013ca0f7c/details

     The Beverly Hillbillies  series
     id: /series/5fb80beee8b7e6001a753aa8/details

     The Big Show  movie
     id: /movies/69c49759351d15c1115649c3/details

     Beverly Hills Pawn  series
     id: /series/5fe26a447f73ec001aa9556f/details

[YmFzZTY0]

use search to get correct video ID

uv run unshackle search pluto "The Beverly Hillbillies"

  ────────────────────────────── Service: PLUTO ──────────────────────────────

     Service has no Geofence

  ──────────────────────────── 89 Search Results ─────────────────────────────

     Return of the Beverly Hillbillies  movie
     id: /movies/674610dde835570013ca0f7c/details

     The Beverly Hillbillies  series
     id: /series/5fb80beee8b7e6001a753aa8/details

     The Big Show  movie
     id: /movies/69c49759351d15c1115649c3/details

     Beverly Hills Pawn  series
     id: /series/5fe26a447f73ec001aa9556f/details

Great call

[Tom Saurus]

Thank you iamghost.

[spike32]

Hi, I am still on version 2.0.0. Last week it worked fine, but pluto tv isn't working as I see you've been talking about. I see for this command it's showing the right show:

C:\Users\user\unshackle>"C:\Users\user\unshackle\. venv\Scripts\python.exe" -m unshackle dl --list-titles PLUTO "/series/680aa663afe56ba72ed352b1/details"

1 seasons, S13(22)
└── Season 13: 22 episodes
├── 01. Nikki Reunion
├── 02. Riley Reunion
├── 03. Bella Reunion
├── 04. Sparky Reunion
├── 05. Gunner Reunion
├── 06. Agility Pros
├── 07. Panda Reunion
├── 08. Magnolia Reunion
├── 11. Ruthie Reunion
├── 13. Atticus Reunion
├── 14. Fiona Reunion
├── 15. Caught in the Act
├── 17. Rosa & Charley Reunion
├── 18. Canines For Kids
├── 19. Penny Reunion
├── 20. Gentle Giants
├── 21. Lizzie Reunion
├── 22. Special Deliveries
├── 23. Happy Campers
├── 24. Trained For Service
├── 25. Canine Coworkers
└── 26. Making Waves

I am trying to download only Making Waves, but when I run this it tries to download everything:

C:\Users\user\unshackle>"C:\Users\user\unshackle\. venv\Scripts\python.exe" -m unshackle dl pluto "https://pluto.tv/series/680aa663afe56ba72ed352b1/details/episode/6a6421115fd707b27da64d03/"

Any suggestions? Thanks.

[Tom Saurus]

uv run unshackle dl -w S13E26 PLUTO /series/680aa663afe56ba72ed352b1

My bookmarks for Pluto reset themselves again to not point at the On Demand. But I used the search that iamghost wrote about and that found me the url I needed for what show I am currently trying to archive.

[spike32]

uv run unshackle dl -w S13E26 PLUTO /series/680aa663afe56ba72ed352b1

My bookmarks for Pluto reset themselves again to not point at the On Demand. But I used the search that iamghost wrote about and that found me the url I needed for what show I am currently trying to archive.

Thank you so much!

[Tom Saurus]

You are welcome!

[ehurdler]

Does anyone have the "Bonus tip" working in the DSCP service that stabbedbybrick had added as an easter egg for 5.3?

I do on version 4.0 still, but it does not on 5.3 at all.

Actually did find a working service for this. So never mind actually.

[Tom Saurus]

Maybe I need a better VPN as Pluto TV On Demand disappears instantly and now it is Italian. Even when I do the search it is spitting out Italian.

I am back search is working again for me getting the Tubi US.

[billybanana]

I have fresh cookies for un-named service. Can anyone PM me to help with this error ?
"This title is not available to watch instantly. Please try another title. - 1044"

Nevermind I got it mostly working playing with the sticks and stones of VT.

[YmFzZTY0]

1044 for that particular service is device not supported

[Hardcore Legend]

uv run unshackle dl -w S13E26 PLUTO /series/680aa663afe56ba72ed352b1

My bookmarks for Pluto reset themselves again to not point at the On Demand. But I used the search that iamghost wrote about and that found me the url I needed for what show I am currently trying to archive.

I want to second this! I am new to using this program and spent most of the night trying to find the correct link for a program.

My problem now is that my vaults are 0/0 and I am now realizing I am missing the important Playready and Widevine DRM files. Every time I go to use Pluto, I am told it is has the wrong DRM and no vaults present.

[billybanana]

I pushed out a small update to NINE that adds direct http(s) mp4 detection for some videos. They tend to have a higher bitrate than HLS. DASH will still follow the existing logic for protected videos.

https://github.com/billybanana80/unshackle-services/tree/master/NINE

BTW I've now archived my Unshackle services repo and will concentrate my efforts on Ozivine and Eurovine.

[DragonQ]

Never used StabbedByBrick's ALL4 service before but not having much luck. Trying this:

uv run unshackle dl -r "SDR" -q "1080" --best-available -l best "ALL4" https://www.channel4.com/programmes/big-fat-quiz-best-bits/on-demand/78560-004

Error is:

                ▄• ▄▌ ▐ ▄ .▄▄ ·  ▄ .▄ ▄▄▄·  ▄▄· ▄ •▄ ▄▄▌  ▄▄▄ .
                █▪██▌•█▌▐█▐█ ▀. ██▪▐█▐█ ▀█ ▐█ ▌▪█▌▄▌▪██•  ▀▄.▀·
                █▌▐█▌▐█▐▐▌▄▀▀▀█▄██▀▐█▄█▀▀█ ██ ▄▄▐▀▀▄·██▪  ▐▀▀▪▄
                ▐█▄█▌██▐█▌▐█▄▪▐███▌▐▀▐█ ▪▐▌▐███▌▐█.█▌▐█▌▐▌▐█▄▄▌
                 ▀▀▀ ▀▀ █▪ ▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀ · ▀  ▀ ·▀▀▀ ·▀  ▀.▀▀▀  ▀▀▀
                       v 5.5.0 (28b7c54) - © 2025-2026 -
                       github.com/unshackle-dl/unshackle

     Loaded 26 services
     Service Config loaded
     Loaded 0/0 Vaults

  ────────────────────────────── Service: ALL4 ───────────────────────────────

     Service is not Geoblocked in your region
      + Acquired tokens...
     Authenticated with Service

  ───────────────────── Series: Big Fat Quiz: Best Bits ──────────────────────

     1 season, S2(1)

  ───────────── Big Fat Quiz: Best Bits S02E04 Ultimate Triumphs ─────────────

     Skipping HLG video tracks as none are available.
     There's no 2160p Video Track, continuing with available qualities...

     1 Video
     └── [H.264, SDR] | en | 1920x1080 @ 7463 kb/s, 25.000 FPS
         ⠸ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • --:-- • FAILED
     1 Audio
     └── [AAC] | en | 2.0 | 135 kb/s
          ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • 00:00 • SKIPPED
     1 Subtitle
     └── [VTT] | en
          ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • 00:00 • SKIPPED
     5 Chapters
     ├── 00:00:00.000 | Chapter 01
     ├── 00:15:26.000 | Chapter 02
     ├── 00:27:51.000 | Chapter 03
     ├── 00:38:14.000 | Chapter 04
     └── 00:46:30.280 | Credits


     ❌ Download Failed...
        ValueError: Title needs a Widevine CDM but ALL4 is configured with
     PlayReady.
        An unexpected error occurred in one of the download workers.

ValueError: Title needs a Widevine CDM but ALL4 is configured with PlayReady.

Am I missing something obvious? Some kind of Widevine setup I need to do?

EDIT: Never mind, realised I was missing CDM setup, the error message is just a bit confusing as it implies the service isn't configured correctly.

[Tom Saurus]

What is the best way to update Unshackle. Is it still back up your .yaml and use:

git pull

uv snyc

Thanks in advance.

[PSXman_uk]

What is the best way to update Unshackle. Is it still back up your .yaml and use:

git pull

uv snyc

Thanks in advance.

Shouldn't affect your yaml at all but git pull is the only way to update it

[Tom Saurus]

What is the best way to update Unshackle. Is it still back up your .yaml and use:

git pull

uv snyc

Thanks in advance.

Shouldn't affect your yaml at all but git pull is the only way to update it

Thank you for this information.

[YmFzZTY0]

What is the best way to update Unshackle. Is it still back up your .yaml and use:

git pull

uv snyc

Thanks in advance.

Shouldn't affect your yaml at all but git pull is the only way to update it

Thank you for this information.

Add yaml to gitignore to be super safe

[Tom Saurus]

It is always good to have your up to date .yaml backed up somewhere else just in case as well.

My Unshackle is buried deep and isn't part of git anymore:

"C:\Users\sheld\AppData\Roaming\uv\tools\unshackle \Lib\site-packages\unshackle"

C:\Users\sheld\AppData\Roaming\uv\tools\unshackle\Lib\site-packages\unshackle>git pull
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

C:\Users\sheld\AppData\Roaming\uv\tools\unshackle\Lib\site-packages\unshackle>

[LastResort]

use search to get correct video ID

uv run unshackle search pluto "The Beverly Hillbillies"

  ────────────────────────────── Service: PLUTO ──────────────────────────────

     Service has no Geofence

  ──────────────────────────── 89 Search Results ─────────────────────────────

     Return of the Beverly Hillbillies  movie
     id: /movies/674610dde835570013ca0f7c/details

     The Beverly Hillbillies  series
     id: /series/5fb80beee8b7e6001a753aa8/details

     The Big Show  movie
     id: /movies/69c49759351d15c1115649c3/details

     Beverly Hills Pawn  series
     id: /series/5fe26a447f73ec001aa9556f/details

Great call

Can this "search" feature also be used with envied? as I am having trouble finding the url of a particular movie. I can play the movie within chrome or firefox, but stream detector only shows me an mpd item.

movie in question:https://pluto.tv/gb_ie/movies/6448edc9dd38b4001a8dd813/#open

I have already attempted uv run envied dl PLUTO https://pluto.tv/gb_ie/movies/6448edc9dd38b4001a8dd813/ (both with and without the "/" and both give an error, with part of the error stating

:138 │ │ except Exception: │
│ ❱ 139 │ │ │ raise ValueError("Could not parse ID from title - is the U │
│ 140 │ │ │
│ 141 │ │ if kind == "series" and episode_id: │
│ 142 │ │ │ r = self.session.get(self.config["endpoints"]["series"].fo

Im guessing that error is telling me that I have not added the correct url for the movie in question.


I attempted it:

and envied kind of worked, I received this back:


The Trench movie
id: /movies/6448edc9dd38b4001a8dd813/details

World War I in the Trenches series
id: /series/68d150ee83275eb994ee8aea/details

Beyond the Reach movie
id: /movies/69382439779bf41d1dbe02c9/details

Sadly, thats as far as i got.

I'm really sorry for posting this chaps... my apologies for wasting peoples time. I managed to work it out:
uv run envied dl PLUTO /movies/6448edc9dd38b4001a8dd813

I knew I should have waited: Download fine, but threw an error at the end:

[Attachment 93483 - Click to enlarge]

[PunchDrunkL0ve]

try with https://pluto.tv/gb/on-demand/movies/6448edc9dd38b4001a8dd813/

[SL33K]

Hi, Is there a zip of services for Unshackle anywhere? Thanks

[iamghost]

...

[iamghost]

Download fine, but threw an error at the end:

[Attachment 93483 - Click to enlarge]

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/418705-Unshackle-Modular-Movie-TV-and-Music-Archiv...38#post2800264

Hi, Is there a zip of services for Unshackle anywhere? Thanks

https://git.gay/stabbedbybrick/unshackle-services

[LastResort]

Thank you iamghost. edited and saved.

[YmFzZTY0]

[QUOTE=iamghost;2802240]

Hi, Is there a zip of services for Unshackle anywhere? Thanks

https://git.gay/stabbedbybrick/unshackle-services

Archived, now, never to be updated, so as the services change their API, you will have to be able to debug and make amendments yourself.

This repository has been archived on June 22, 2026. You can view files and clone it, but you cannot make any changes to its state, such as pushing and creating new issues, pull requests or comments.

[Tom Saurus]

[QUOTE=YmFzZTY0;2802285]

Hi, Is there a zip of services for Unshackle anywhere? Thanks

https://git.gay/stabbedbybrick/unshackle-services

Archived, now, never to be updated, so as the services change their API, you will have to be able to debug and make amendments yourself.

This repository has been archived on June 22, 2026. You can view files and clone it, but you cannot make any changes to its state, such as pushing and creating new issues, pull requests or comments.

We are hopeful that stabbedbybrick will be back and find his passion again. Regardless stabbedbybrick is a smart person and he has the gratitude of many of us from when he got Freevine going and then we migrated to Devine and then to Unshackle. I especially appreciate what he did with the Pluto service. Back in the Freevine days he figured out how to remedy what is referred to as bumpers which was causing lip sync issues with some of the downloaded files.

I am going to rely on Twinvine specifically Envied for awhile. I did a git pull of Unshackle a few months back and the process seemed to work but the version number never changed to the version I was upgrading to. So I deleted Unshackle and went to Github and used that "tool git pull" as that was the only way available as the other way is not there anymore. I prefer a folder in my C: drive to hold most of the program. Now it buried deep and I think I will not delete it and start over as parts of Unshackle are here and there. Envied is working fine and Unshackle may work as well for awhile longer when it doesn't work I will cross that bridge when I come to it. But I am big fan of how Angela has laid out the instructions on how to set up Twinvine and it is impressive. Unshackle is obviously impressive as well and thankfully Twinvine is evolving along with Unshackle.