STV - Revisiting the Downloader

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

This is a set of STV downloaders that will get series of videos or just a single. The two scripts work in conjunction or alone. The set consists of a 'loader', that finds all available videos from a 'summary' url link - 110 videos for Taggart or 2 for Rosemary's Baby, and a 'getter' that does the business of downloading.


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Opening screen.


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Search results


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selecting download





The' getter' can be used on its own with single 'episode' urls.

pip install -r  requirements.txt

will install all the modules,you will need - hopefully.

Pywidevine or WKS-KEYS
A small quantity of STV's output is encrypted. You can still use these scripts for downloading non-encrypted material without a CDM. But with a Content Decryption Module - either Pywidevine or WKS-KEYS - you can successfully download and decrypt. If using Pywidevine as your key provider DO NOT place the scripts in the WKS-KEYS folder.

The scripts
https://files.videohelp.com/u/301890/stv_files.zip

I post these scripts in the hope they will be of use to those who already understand how to use them.

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Some bugs fixed:

1. A few single-video one-off programmes failed to download as curation does not follow standard procedure. Added an alternative path.
2. Database saving error; Despite testing with Rosemary's Baby, apostrophes in text later managed to cause a database save error, now corrected.

Remaining bugs

1. DRM Videos from Banjay only list series 1 in the loader. Series 2 ... etc. may still be downloaded as single videos. Still investigating.

[CrymanChen]

Excellent script. Thanks for your dedicated work.

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

How kind. Thank you.

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

A site search function on multi-keywords or phrase has now been added. A phrase search should be quoted.
And an annoying error which prevented series episodes after series 1 being listed, is now corrected.

I'm sure there are other bugs. if you can reproduce an error when using sane inputs - post the error here.

[sipho]

At the risk of incurring the wrath of Angela, I tried the latest script but this error was thrown up.

[info] Preparing to download ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\angela-stv\stv_loader.py", line 325, in <module>
    stv.entrypoint(str(result))
  File "D:\angela-stv\stvgetter.py", line 262, in entrypoint
    get_stage_one_data(client,videoid, seriesguid, guid, DRM)
  File "D:\angela-stv\stvgetter.py", line 230, in get_stage_one_data
    videoname, manifest, folder = get_stage_two_no_drm(videoid)
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "D:\angela-stv\stvgetter.py", line 116, in get_stage_two_no_drm
    videoname = myjson['name']
                ~~~~~~^^^^^^^^
TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not str

Using WKS-KEYS and here is folder structure for the CDM

D:\angela-stv\pywidevine\L3\cdm

Running on a VPN though.

STV URL is this.

https://player.stv.tv/summary/rugby-world-cup

Script presents all the episodes. Deselected all bar the first one (Wales vs Fiji)

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

At the risk of incurring the wrath of Angela, I tried the latest script but this error was thrown up.
Script presents all the episodes. Deselected all bar the first one (Wales vs Fiji)

Wrath of Angela? Is that like the Wrath of Khan? And where is it on?

Seriously; I cannot reproduce your error.

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I have uploaded the files to here. Maybe an error crept in copying & pasting?
https://files.videohelp.com/u/301890/stv_loader.py
https://files.videohelp.com/u/301890/stvgetter.py

[sipho]

Thank you Angela. It must be related to my VPN because when I switch it off it starts to download but I get this message.

ERROR: Download first segment failed!

So nothing with your script. Thank you though!

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Thank you Angela. It must be related to my VPN because when I switch it off it starts to download but I get this message.

ERROR: Download first segment failed!

So nothing with your script. Thank you though!

That's annoying. VPN is a pain.

If you take a url that is listed as a result, either of your video-search or 'summary' input, check to see if yt-dlp can do the download over your VPN. If it succeeds you could remove N_m3u8DL-RE as the script downloader and use yt-dlp instead.

[sipho]

I experimented with various VPN protocols and eventually one worked. I have a batch file that uses yt-dlp and that grabs STV stuff without a problem. Not encrypted videos though.

I'll look at making the change you suggested. Thanks for the input.

[peterb999]

Thanks for the great script Angela, it works really well. Thanks again for your hard work.

[deccavox]

FFS, Dannyboi's become famous. He's become a part of a python script arrgghh

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

I experimented with various VPN protocols and eventually one worked. I have a batch file that uses yt-dlp and that grabs STV stuff without a problem. Not encrypted videos though.

I'll look at making the change you suggested. Thanks for the input.

This may be relevant. https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/409051-STV-a-VPN-that-works-with-it

[sipho]

This may be relevant. https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/409051-STV-a-VPN-that-works-with-it

Thank you.

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Updated interface to match the recent more user-friendly ITV Revisited version.
Tweaked code to show series numbers where needed. Ctrl + C will bail out gracefully at program-waits. 'Escape' will move from search to manual input.
The database is no longer saved temporarily to disk; it resides in memory until program end.
updated Zip file at post #1