Freevine - A downloader for free streaming services (discontinued)

[stabbedbybrick]

Looks like iplayer just got a lot more fun


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[Grimbarian]

Looks like iplayer just got a lot more fun


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Oh wow that's awesome! Wonder how much content is available in 4k these days...

[stabbedbybrick]

Oh wow that's awesome! Wonder how much content is available in 4k these days...

Not a whole lot, but it's growing:

Latest:
Vigil 
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Special - Christmas special coming 25 December
Boat Story
Planet Earth III 
The Reckoning

Full list of Ultra HD programmes: 
Attenborough's Wonder of Song
Blue Lights 
Blue Planet II
Boat Story
Boiling Point
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse 
Champion 
Chloe
The Coronation of TM The King and Queen Camilla 
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Special 
Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor 
Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
Dynasties
Eden: Untamed Planet
The English 
Everything I know about Love
Frozen Planet II
Planet Earth III 
The Girl Before
The Gold
Great Expectations 
The Green Planet
His Dark Materials
Industry, Series 2
Life After Life
Life and Death in the Warehouse
The Mating Game
Mood
A Perfect Planet
The Reckoning
Red Rose
The Responder
SAS Rogue Heroes
Serengeti, Series 3
Seven Worlds, One Planet
Sherwood 
The Sixth Commandment
Squad Goals: Dorking 'Til I Die
Ten Pound Poms
The Tourist
A Very British Scandal
Vigil
Wild Isles
Winter Journey: Schubert's Winterreise
The Woman in the Wall 
Wreck

[Grimbarian]

Stupid question sorry, how do you find that list of UHD content?

[pauli3]

Looks like iplayer just got a lot more fun


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awesome! available next update?

[stabbedbybrick]

Stupid question sorry, how do you find that list of UHD content?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/questions/programme-availability/uhd-content

awesome! available next update?

That's the goal, but there are still some aspects that makes it tricky to roll out to all current users and would cause a support nightmare. I'll keep poking at it, though.

[billybanana]

Looks like iplayer just got a lot more fun

Ooh nice. Look forward to that update.

Been messing with the 'dev' app for most of today (yes I am retired, so have time on my hands ). Haven't found any real issues with anything OOB so far. It did break my GUI in that the embedded command prompt no longer worked. Spent many hours trying to figure out why. Turns out it does not like the console print line in commands.py.

console.print(f"\n❯_ 𝕗𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕟𝕖 {__version__}\n")

I have commented out that line and now it's back working normal. You had me worried there. Thought my GUI was killed off already.

With the profile creation function. Is All4 the only service that currently offers any benefit by creating a profile ? If a profile is created for another service, BBC for example, does your script currently do anything with that ?

[SE14man]

Hey

Struggling with ITVX.

In particular Doc Martin.

Command used was "python freevine.py -s s03 https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104"
and
"python freevine.py -s s03 https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/762839"

[billybanana]

Hey

Struggling with ITVX.

In particular Doc Martin.

I get a similar error with different versions of FV. ITV have borked something with that one.

The individual episodes still download ok if you can be bothered doing them one x one.

https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824286
https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824287
https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824288
https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824289
https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824290
https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824291
https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824292

[Grimbarian]

Hey

Struggling with ITVX.

In particular Doc Martin.

Command used was "python freevine.py -s s03 https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104"
and
"python freevine.py -s s03 https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/762839"

Yeah only downloading individual episodes work for me for that one for some reason...

If you just paste:

python freevine.py -e https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824286
python freevine.py -e https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824287
python freevine.py -e https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824288
python freevine.py -e https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824289
python freevine.py -e https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824290
python freevine.py -e https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824291
python freevine.py -e https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824292

Into a command prompt it will queue the commands and download them one at a time.

I use a firefox extension called "Snap Links" to add multiple URLs to the clipboard, just drag with the right mouse button to select what I want then hold down ctrl and let go of the right mouse to copy all the episode links to the clipboard...

https://cpriest.github.io/SnapLinksPlus/#/


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Apologies if none of the reply is useful it's just how I would do it in a similar situation if -s wasn't working for a show but I saw that individual episodes were...

[stabbedbybrick]

Yeah, I get the same error. It's because some "series" values aren't numbers, which I stupidly assumed they always would be. It's an easy fix and will be added for the next update.

In the meantime, Doc Martin is available in much higher quality on CTV if you have access to a Canadian VPN/proxy: https://www.ctv.ca/shows/doc-martin/

[Grimbarian]

I seem to get the same issue with this series: https://iview.abc.net.au/show/australia-remastered-wild-australians grabbing them as individual episodes.

[stabbedbybrick]

Been messing with the 'dev' app for most of today (yes I am retired, so have time on my hands ). Haven't found any real issues with anything OOB so far. It did break my GUI in that the embedded command prompt no longer worked. Spent many hours trying to figure out why. Turns out it does not like the console print line in commands.py.

console.print(f"\n❯_ 𝕗𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕟𝕖 {__version__}\n")

I have commented out that line and now it's back working normal. You had me worried there. Thought my GUI was killed off already.

With the profile creation function. Is All4 the only service that currently offers any benefit by creating a profile ? If a profile is created for another service, BBC for example, does your script currently do anything with that ?

Oops, sorry about that. I know how hunting for those "hidden" errors can drive you mad.

As for the profiles, only ALL4 is currently making use of it. CBC will be added as well since login is required, and I might a couple others. But most of these free streaming services don't require credentials. It's just nice to have a profile setup ready to go in case you need it in the future.

[SE14man]

Very quick to respond. Thanks everyone. Plenty of options provided there!

[SE14man]

Hey

Struggling with ITVX.

In particular Doc Martin.

I get a similar error with different versions of FV. ITV have borked something with that one.

The individual episodes still download ok if you can be bothered doing them one x one.

https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824286
https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824287
https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824288
https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824289
https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824290
https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824291
https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824292

Thanks Billy and also thanks Grimbarian for github link.

Does this get you 720s at all?

For me it seemed to only grab 504s when within the actual mpd there are 720s available.

Using SmartDNS

Cheers

[Grimbarian]

Hey

Struggling with ITVX.

In particular Doc Martin.

I get a similar error with different versions of FV. ITV have borked something with that one.

The individual episodes still download ok if you can be bothered doing them one x one.

https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824286
https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824287
https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824288
https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824289
https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824290
https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824291
https://www.itv.com/watch/doc-martin/26104/824292

Thanks Billy and also thanks Grimbarian for github link.

Does this get you 720s at all?

For me it seemed to only grab 504s when within the actual mpd there are 720s available.

Using SmartDNS

Cheers

Yeah it only gave me 540p.

[tjac]

Is Pluto TV still supported? I've been trying to get this to work and get an error "Service is not supported".

I'm using this command:

D:\freevine>python freevine.py -e S01E01 https://www.pluto.tv/en/on-demand/series/61ba35904b12ef001494687b/details/season/1

Using freevine v1.06 and Python v3.12.1 with all the other latest version of pre-reqs installed. Maybe I didn't install everything properly. I appreciate any guidance/help anyone can share.

[iamghost]

list episode...

freevine.py -t https://pluto.tv/en/on-demand/series/61ba35904b12ef001494687b/details

single episode

freevine.py -e s01e01 https://pluto.tv/en/on-demand/series/61ba35904b12ef001494687b/details

[stabbedbybrick]

Is Pluto TV still supported? I've been trying to get this to work and get an error "Service is not supported".

I'm using this command:

D:\freevine>python freevine.py -e S01E01 https://www.pluto.tv/en/on-demand/series/61ba35904b12ef001494687b/details/season/1

Using freevine v1.06 and Python v3.12.1 with all the other latest version of pre-reqs installed. Maybe I didn't install everything properly. I appreciate any guidance/help anyone can share.

Yes, it is. Remove the "www" from your URL and it'll work. I'd recommend using the search function to get proper URLs.

freevine.py --search pluto "dick van dyke show"

    PlutoTV
    Title: The Dick Van Dyke Show
    Type: series
    Synopsis: None
    Link: https://pluto.tv/en/on-demand/series/61ba35904b12ef001494687b/details

[durmonator]

Hey, having a few issues with CWTV, using main and beta:

File "/Users/luke/WKS-KEYS/freevine-1.0.6/services/cwtv/cwtv.py", line 52, in __init__
    self.get_options()
  File "/Users/luke/WKS-KEYS/freevine-1.0.6/services/cwtv/cwtv.py", line 260, in get_options
    downloads, title = get_downloads(self)
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/luke/WKS-KEYS/freevine-1.0.6/utils/options.py", line 166, in get_downloads
    content, title = stream.get_content(stream.url)
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/luke/WKS-KEYS/freevine-1.0.6/services/cwtv/cwtv.py", line 218, in get_content
    content = self.get_series(url)
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/luke/WKS-KEYS/freevine-1.0.6/services/cwtv/cwtv.py", line 91, in get_series
    episodes = asyncio.run(self.get_titles(data))

Trying to grab https://www.cwtv.com/shows/penn-teller-fool-us

[SE14man]

Just another question i've been meaning to also ask...

With the sites that offer 5.1 audio(Roku etc) . Is it possible to download the 5.1 then somehow using ffmpeg make it 2.0 audio and rejoin to the video afterwards?

I would know how to rejoin it would just be ideal for me (the equipment I have) to make audio 2.0. Not the end of the world if not.

Its just for things like dialogue being very quiet then explosions being almost deafening.

This script really is a work of art, the amount of time its saved me in doing each episode....

Thanks!

[stabbedbybrick]

Hey, having a few issues with CWTV, using main and beta:

File "/Users/luke/WKS-KEYS/freevine-1.0.6/services/cwtv/cwtv.py", line 52, in __init__
    self.get_options()
  File "/Users/luke/WKS-KEYS/freevine-1.0.6/services/cwtv/cwtv.py", line 260, in get_options
    downloads, title = get_downloads(self)
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/luke/WKS-KEYS/freevine-1.0.6/utils/options.py", line 166, in get_downloads
    content, title = stream.get_content(stream.url)
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/luke/WKS-KEYS/freevine-1.0.6/services/cwtv/cwtv.py", line 218, in get_content
    content = self.get_series(url)
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/luke/WKS-KEYS/freevine-1.0.6/services/cwtv/cwtv.py", line 91, in get_series
    episodes = asyncio.run(self.get_titles(data))

Trying to grab https://www.cwtv.com/shows/penn-teller-fool-us

No issues on my end. Please include full command + output.

[stabbedbybrick]

Just another question i've been meaning to also ask...

With the sites that offer 5.1 audio(Roku etc) . Is it possible to download the 5.1 then somehow using ffmpeg make it 2.0 audio and rejoin to the video afterwards?

I would know how to rejoin it would just be ideal for me (the equipment I have) to make audio 2.0. Not the end of the world if not.

Its just for things like dialogue being very quiet then explosions being almost deafening.

This script really is a work of art, the amount of time its saved me in doing each episode....

Thanks!

Just download the 2.0 audio track instead of 5.1. Use the --select-audio/-sa to select the track you want. If you don't know the id, the easiest way is to just tell it download the "worst" audio:

freevine.py -sa for=worst

[SE14man]

So glad to know this can be done

Thanks!

[pelago]

Many thanks for this awesome script!

I'd like to ask the community, have any of you wrapped this script (or ones like it) in any fancy system to automate or schedule downloads?

It'd be great to have a system like MythTV (which works with TV tuners) to automatically download new episodes when they come out, and manage existing downloads (e.g. keep just the 10 latest episodes) and so on.

[stabbedbybrick]

Heyo, a new update has just been posted. Please read the changelog here: https://github.com/stabbedbybrick/freevine/releases/tag/v1.1.0

An addition I forgot to post is that using "--info" now will tell N_m3u8DL-RE to print out track info without downloading anything. Which means you can also use it to test your command without initiating a download, which is pretty useful if you're trying to select specific things using the --sv/--sa arguments.

[iamghost]

thank you new updated version

btw is iplayer still max 1080p. i try go for 2160p

freevine.py get --select-video res=2160 --season S01 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0gjwxhv

but it up to 1080p

[stabbedbybrick]

Sorry, still 1080p max for now.

[ehurdler]

stabbedbybrick - Thank you once again! Love the newest version. Have been testing and getting things, and understanding the changes/additions. Thank you!

I do have a question, not a bug or issue. Curious for ALL4 - Channel4, The Americans. Url/episode I was testing on was s01e02:

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-americans/on-demand/75885-002

I do see with freevine I do see only up to 1024x576. However when I am looking through the Developer Tools - Network. I am seeing a "stream.mpd" url below as the example goes:

https://cf.jos.c4assets.com/CH4_43_02_900_75885002001001_001/CH4_43_02_900_75885002001001_001_J01.ism/stream.mpd?c3.ri=13494570595474539845&mpd_segment_template=time&filter=%28type%3D%3D%22video%22%26%26%28%28DisplayHeight%3E%3D288%29%26%26%28systemBitrate%3C4800000%29%29%29%7C%7Ctype%21%3D%22video%22&ts=1703371173&e=600&st=qOVpShsm8yTi1s06ssxzNEUtSAglvzHk2QSc75dnNjc

that seems to have 1280, and 1920 options. The normal stream "_001.mpd" url below as the example goes:

http://cf.dash01.stream.c4assets.com/wvmod-stream/CH4_33_05_42_75885002001001_001.mpd?c3.ri=13503014845349450466

does not, only up to 1024. Is it possible for 1280 or 1920 versions here? I did try using the kid:key from your working script with the other mpd, obviously did not work. Just curious, looking to get fresh better versions of the show than what I currently have.

[iamghost]

stabbedbybrick - Thank you once again! Love the newest version. Have been testing and getting things, and understanding the changes/additions. Thank you!

I do have a question, not a bug or issue. Curious for ALL4 - Channel4, The Americans. Url/episode I was testing on was s01e02:

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-americans/on-demand/75885-002

I do see with freevine I do see only up to 1024x576. However when I am looking through the Developer Tools - Network. I am seeing a "stream.mpd" url below as the example goes:

https://cf.jos.c4assets.com/CH4_43_02_900_75885002001001_001/CH4_43_02_900_75885002001001_001_J01.ism/stream.mpd?c3.ri=13494570595474539845&mpd_segment_template=time&filter=%28type%3D%3D%22video%22%26%26%28%28DisplayHeight%3E%3D288%29%26%26%28systemBitrate%3C4800000%29%29%29%7C%7Ctype%21%3D%22video%22&ts=1703371173&e=600&st=qOVpShsm8yTi1s06ssxzNEUtSAglvzHk2QSc75dnNjc

that seems to have 1280, and 1920 options. The normal stream "_001.mpd" url below as the example goes:

http://cf.dash01.stream.c4assets.com/wvmod-stream/CH4_33_05_42_75885002001001_001.mpd?c3.ri=13503014845349450466

does not, only up to 1024. Is it possible for 1280 or 1920 versions here? I did try using the kid:key from your working script with the other mpd, obviously did not work. Just curious, looking to get fresh better versions of the show than what I currently have.

just change from "andriod" to "web" (line 6) in service/channel4/api.yaml

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