need help improving my downloader

[swappyison]

delete

[Karoolus]

Why not just always download the highest quality?

[sk8ordi3]

@swappyison
it's true that I don't usually put my name in my scripts, but if you create a github with my script at least include my name..
https://github.com/swappyison/JiocinemaDownloader/blob/main/jiodownloader.py

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otherwise if you want to use N_m3u8DL-RE it's not the best solution to ask the user for the resolution
because, if he gives you a resolution that is not there, RE will not download the video just the audio

with yt-dlp that if you enter 1080 and maybe 540p is the highest resolution available, download the 540p and it won't throw an error


so, if you want to get the resolution from the user, yt-dlp is the better choice..

[swappyison]

delete

[Karoolus]

sure, I am getting a problem with scraper it can scrape episodes up to 10 but not higher.

like i tried this: https://www.jiocinema.com/tv-shows/up65/3758866
for higher episodes it just takes too long to load and doesn't give any links
this is the code:

...

Wait, are you emulating a browser and scrolling down the page to extract links?


Try this:

Perform a GET request to this url:

https://content-jiovoot.voot.com/psapi/voot/v1/voot-web/view/show/3758866?&responseType=common&features=include:buttonsTray&premiumTrays=false&devicePlatformType=desktop

(you can obviously change the show ID in the url)

You'll get back something like this:

{
    "id": "3758866",
    "name": "UP65",
    "description": "Extended from - show",
    "platformId": "voot-common",
    "slug": "show",
    "customizable": false,
    "editable": true,
    "default": true,
    "trays": [
        ....
        {
            "tabId": "",
            "layoutOptions": {},
            "cardTemplateId": "with_title_subtitle_below_image",
            "customOptions": [],
            "description": "All Season by show (Chips) (Show ID is cascased by API)",
            "filters": [
                {
                    "values": "",
                    "scope": "api",
                    "exposed": false,
                    "preset": false,
                    "validValues": [],
                    "key": "id"
                },
                {
                    "values": "SERIES",
                    "scope": "static",
                    "exposed": false,
                    "preset": true,
                    "validValues": [],
                    "key": "type"
                }
            ],
            "title": "Episodes",
            "segments": [],
            "layout": "SeasonsLayoutMultiFilterRail",
            "layoutTemplateId": "16x13 2 cards",
            "moreLayout": "SeasonsLayoutMultiFilterRail",
            "apiUrl": "content/generic/series-wise-episode?sort=episode%3Aasc&id=3758869",
            "lockedBy": "",
            "meta": {
                "contentVersions": [
                    "*"
                ],
                "isAvodTray": false,
                "trayType": "dynamic",
                "isPremiumTray": false
            },
            "trayId": "season-by-show-multifilter",
            "isLocked": false,
            "apiPath": "content/generic/series-wise-episode?sort=episode%3Aasc&id=3758869",
            "id": "rail_jiouat_voot-common_show_0_season-by-show-multifilter_182248302",
            "sorts": [
                {
                    "orders": [
                        "desc",
                        "asc"
                    ],
                    "label": "Season",
                    "preset": true,
                    "key": "season",
                    "order": "desc"
                }
            ],
            "status": "published",
            "moreButtons": [],
            "trayTabs": [
                {
                    "id": "3758869",
                    "label": "Season 1",
                    "type": "dynamic",
                    "queryId": "",
                    "apiUrl": "content/generic/series-wise-episode?sort=episode%3Aasc&id=3758869"
                },
                {
                    "id": "3758871",
                    "label": "Season 2",
                    "type": "dynamic",
                    "queryId": "",
                    "apiUrl": "content/generic/series-wise-episode?sort=episode%3Aasc&id=3758871"
                }
            ],
            "totalTrayTabs": 2
        },
    ],
    "variant": "0",
    "basePlatform": "voot-common",
    "updated": 1689927337,
    "includeBaseTrays": false,
    "groupName": "Default Views",
    "scaffoldId": "default",
    "tabs": [],
    "tabbed": false,
    "scope": "custom",
    "extended": true,
    "parentViewId": "show",
    "activeTrayLimit": "999",
    "trayCount": 6,
    "viewConfigUrl": ""
}

The ... represent more trays in the request but as far as I could tell, they were useless so just ignore them. Look for the tray with title Episodes

This will give you an ID for all seasons of that show. These IDs can be used to do a new request that will return all episode metadata (including the video URLs)

For UP65, there is 2 seasons. The IDs for those seasons are:

"trayTabs": [
    {
        "id": "3758869",
        "label": "Season 1",
        "type": "dynamic",
        "queryId": "",
        "apiUrl": "content/generic/series-wise-episode?sort=episode%3Aasc&id=3758869"
    },
    {
        "id": "3758871",
        "label": "Season 2",
        "type": "dynamic",
        "queryId": "",
        "apiUrl": "content/generic/series-wise-episode?sort=episode%3Aasc&id=3758871"
    }
]

As you can see, there's an ID for each season, but also an apiUrl. You could go 2 ways for the next request:

1.

f"https://content-jiovoot.voot.com/psapi/voot/v1/voot-web/{apiUrl}&responseType=common"

or

2.

id = "whateverseasonID"
f"https://content-jiovoot.voot.com/psapi/voot/v1/voot-web/content/generic/series-wise-episode?sort=episode:asc&id={id}&responseType=common"

Either one should work just fine

The response to that request is: https://pastebin.com/D7PfYCVi

It should have all the information you need

[swappyison]

thank you so much!

[swappyison]

hi the json data has for some reason only 10 episodes while the first season has 13 of them, what could be the reason?

[Karoolus]

Oh I didn't notice that. Check the bottom of the json reply, how many pages does it show? It might only give 10 episodes in a normal request so you might have to check for extra pages and do another request

[swappyison]

shows Page 1. both api url seem to give only 10 videos

[Karoolus]

I just had a look and it indeed only shows 10 episodes per page. That is easily solved though.

In that last request you have this in the json:

"totalAsset": 13

Knowing that it only doens 10 episodes per page, you can just do this:

totalAsset = json['totalAsset']
totalPages = math.ceil(int(totalAsset)/10)

for x in range(totalPages):
    requestUrl = 'https://content-jiovoot.voot.com/psapi/voot/v1/voot-web/content/generic/series-wise-episode?sort=episode%3Aasc&id=3758869&responseType=common&page=' + str(x)
    #perform the request, parse the episodes, then do the next loop for the other pages
    #rinse and repeat

Edit: I don't code in Python so my code is probably not correct, but you should be able to fix it up easily. Either way, I'm sure you get what I mean so you should be able to come up with working code anyway