Freevine - A downloader for free streaming services (discontinued)

[SB47x]

Right, but should you be in c:\devine\devine\ rather than c:\devine\ ?

If you want to be able to run it from other places, you'll need to put it in the PATH.

Is Python installed and working fine?

edit: how did you install it?

[SL33K]

Right, but should you be in c:\devine\devine\ rather than c:\devine\ ?

If you want to be able to run it from other places, you'll need to put it in the PATH.

Is Python installed and working fine?

edit: how did you install it?

divine is in devine\devine

It's installed, should be working fine?

As the directions said... pip install devine

[SB47x]

If pip installed it OK, it sounds like a PATH issue. Have you tried closing the command line and opening a new one? Maybe it'll refresh the path.

[iamghost]

mine...

[Attachment 78259 - Click to enlarge]
i run cmd from there, poetry shell
devine dl SERVICES -?

[SL33K]

If pip installed it OK, it sounds like a PATH issue. Have you tried closing the command line and opening a new one? Maybe it'll refresh the path.

Yes, a few times.... Also tried re-installing again, same results.

[SL33K]

mine...

[Attachment 78259 - Click to enlarge]

So mine didn't install fully (via win10).

[iamghost]

pip install poetry

install poetry first then use devine after

[SL33K]

pip install poetry

install poetry first then use devine after

I'm pretty sure I did yesterday in that order I followed on here few pages back...

Should I uninstall everything, and try again? What should I use to be installing? CMD or PowerShell?

[iamghost]

1st install poetry before use this step https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/411643-Freevine-A-downloader-for-free-streaming-se...42#post2730799

[achilles]

"pip install devine" would install a devine executable in your python scripts directory (which would already be in your path - otherwise you wouldn't even be able run poetry). If you try to run devine and get nothing, then your "pip install devine" failed.

Since you are showing what looks like a full devine distribution, you likely downloaded a zip file and unzipped it. In which case, the suggested method to actually install devine is to do the following:

poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true
poetry install
poetry shell

This will install devine in a virtual environment so any dependencies will not affect any other python projects you have. After those three commands, you should at least be able to type devine and something should execute.

Of course, this is assuming poetry is installed but if you didn't at least have that, it would complain that poetry 'is not recognized as an internal or external command...'.

[SL33K]

1st install poetry before use this step https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/411643-Freevine-A-downloader-for-free-streaming-se...42#post2730799

PATH error... missed that message the first time prob?

Using cached poetry-1.8.2-py3-none-any.whl (249 kB)
Installing collected packages: poetry
  WARNING: The script poetry.exe is installed in 'C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\Scripts' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
Successfully installed poetry-1.8.2

C:\devine>

[SL33K]

"pip install devine" would install a devine executable in your python scripts directory (which would already be in your path - otherwise you wouldn't even be able run poetry). If you try to run devine and get nothing, then your "pip install devine" failed.

Since you are showing what looks like a full devine distribution, you likely downloaded a zip file and unzipped it. In which case, the suggested method to actually install devine is to do the following:

poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true
poetry install
poetry shell

This will install devine in a virtual environment so any dependencies will not affect any other python projects you have. After those three commands, you should at least be able to type devine and something should execute.

Of course, this is assuming poetry is installed but if you didn't at least have that, it would complain that poetry 'is not recognized as an internal or external command...'.

This is helpful, Thank you... and yes I downloaded zip, unzipped it...
I did do poetry config first and didn't work yesterday, or just now a second time..

C:\devine>poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true
'poetry' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

[achilles]

achilles: I put "wvds" in lower case letters in the yaml but I got the same result as above that my Android CDM doesn't exists. Regardless I better stop discussing Devine here and I will wait a bit to see someone launch a thread dedicated to Devine and if they don't I will.

Start a new thread and in there post:
1. The output of "devine env info"
2. The contents of the directory listed as [WVDs]
3. The contents of devine.yaml
3. The output of the command "devine dl -w s01e01 CTV cold-squad"

[achilles]

This is helpful, Thank you... and yes I downloaded zip, unzipped it...
I did do poetry config first and didn't work yesterday, or just now a second time..

C:\devine>poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true
'poetry' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

That's because poetry was installed in the your python Scripts directory and that directory is not in your PATH (as you noted above).

In windows, click on the windows icon in bottom left and go into "Settings" and search for "environment". "Edit the system environment variables" should show up. Click on "Environment Variables.." Then add the "c:\users\[user]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310" and "c:\users\[user]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Scripts" to it.

Well, that's where my python scripts directory is anyway. Yours may be different but I think you should get the idea.

[SL33K]

"pip install devine" would install a devine executable in your python scripts directory (which would already be in your path - otherwise you wouldn't even be able run poetry). If you try to run devine and get nothing, then your "pip install devine" failed.

Since you are showing what looks like a full devine distribution, you likely downloaded a zip file and unzipped it. In which case, the suggested method to actually install devine is to do the following:

poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true
poetry install
poetry shell

This will install devine in a virtual environment so any dependencies will not affect any other python projects you have. After those three commands, you should at least be able to type devine and something should execute.

Of course, this is assuming poetry is installed but if you didn't at least have that, it would complain that poetry 'is not recognized as an internal or external command...'.

This is helpful, Thank you... and yes I downloaded zip, unzipped it...
I did do poetry config first and didn't work yesterday, or just now a second time..

C:\devine>poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true
'poetry' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

I manually added variables, restarted, got poetry to load finally, install etc... Now where here

(devine-py3.10) C:\devine>devine env info

                       / __ \/ ____/ |  / /  _/ | / / ____/
                      / / / / __/  | | / // //  |/ / __/
                     / /_/ / /___  | |/ // // /|  / /___
                    /_____/_____/  |___/___/_/ |_/_____/
                    ?
                    v3.3.1 Copyright © 2019-2024 rlaphoenix
                      https://github.com/devine-dl/devine

     [Root Config]     : C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\devine\devine.yaml
     [Cookies]         : C:\devine\devine\cookies
     [WVDs]            : C:\Users\*\AppData\Local\devine\WVDs
     [Cache]           : C:\devine\cache
     [Logs]            : C:\devine\Logs
     [Temp Files]      : C:\devine\temp
     [Downloads]       : C:\devine\downloads

(devine-py3.10) C:\devine>

[SL33K]

This is helpful, Thank you... and yes I downloaded zip, unzipped it...
I did do poetry config first and didn't work yesterday, or just now a second time..

C:\devine>poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true
'poetry' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

That's because poetry was installed in the your python Scripts directory and that directory is not in your PATH (as you noted above).

In windows, click on the windows icon in bottom left and go into "Settings" and search for "environment". "Edit the system environment variables" should show up. Click on "Environment Variables.." Then add the "c:\users\[user]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310" and "c:\users\[user]\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Scripts" to it.

Well, that's where my python scripts directory is anyway. Yours may be different but I think you should get the idea.

I got it before this post but yeah, same place, I figured it out.. PATH wasn't set and had to manually add it. Thanks for the help/tips

[Tom Saurus]

Some good news I misunderstood PlutoTV and most of the movies have the audio and video downloading together and as one file that the subs get muxed into. So I am quite happy about that. I am going to relax awhile and take at least one more try with Devine.

Thank you to pxman for posting that there is a way to select download quality in Devine.

Of course thank you to everyone else as well.

[iamghost]

Options:
  -p, --profile TEXT              Profile to use for Credentials and Cookies (if available).
  -q, --quality QUALITY_LIST      Download Resolution(s), defaults to the best available resolution.
  -v, --vcodec [H.264|H.265|VC-1|VP8|VP9|AV1]
                                  Video Codec to download, defaults to any codec.
  -a, --acodec [AAC|DD|DD+|OPUS|VORB|DTS|ALAC|FLAC]
                                  Audio Codec to download, defaults to any codec.
  -vb, --vbitrate INTEGER         Video Bitrate to download (in kbps), defaults to highest available.
  -ab, --abitrate INTEGER         Audio Bitrate to download (in kbps), defaults to highest available.
  -r, --range [SDR|HLG|HDR10|HDR10+|DV]
                                  Video Color Range(s) to download, defaults to SDR.
  -c, --channels FLOAT            Audio Channel(s) to download. Matches sub-channel layouts like 5.1 with 6.0
                                  implicitly.
  -w, --wanted EP_RANGE           Wanted episodes, e.g. `S01-S05,S07`, `S01E01-S02E03`, `S02-S02E03`, e.t.c,
                                  defaults to all.
  -l, --lang LANG_RANGE           Language wanted for Video and Audio.
  -vl, --v-lang LANG_RANGE        Language wanted for Video, you would use this if the video language doesn't
                                  match the audio.
  -sl, --s-lang LANG_RANGE        Language wanted for Subtitles.
  --proxy TEXT                    Proxy URI to use. If a 2-letter country is provided, it will try get a proxy
                                  from the config.
  --tag TEXT                      Set the Group Tag to be used, overriding the one in config if any.
  --sub-format [SRT|SSA|ASS|TTML|VTT|STPP|WVTT]
                                  Set Output Subtitle Format, only converting if necessary.
  -V, --video-only                Only download video tracks.
  -A, --audio-only                Only download audio tracks.
  -S, --subs-only                 Only download subtitle tracks.
  -C, --chapters-only             Only download chapters.
  --slow                          Add a 60-120 second delay between each Title download to act more like a real
                                  device. This is recommended if you are downloading high-risk titles or streams.
  --list                          Skip downloading and list available tracks and what tracks would have been
                                  downloaded.
  --list-titles                   Skip downloading, only list available titles that would have been downloaded.
  --skip-dl                       Skip downloading while still retrieving the decryption keys.
  --export PATH                   Export Decryption Keys as you obtain them to a JSON file.
  --cdm-only / --vaults-only      Only use CDM, or only use Key Vaults for retrieval of Decryption Keys.
  --no-proxy                      Force disable all proxy use.
  --no-folder                     Disable folder creation for TV Shows.
  --no-source                     Disable the source tag from the output file name and path.
  --workers INTEGER               Max workers/threads to download with per-track. Default depends on the
                                  downloader.
  --downloads INTEGER             Amount of tracks to download concurrently.
  -?, -h, --help                  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  ALL4  https://channel4.com
  AMZN  https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Video
  CR    https://crunchyroll.com
  CRKL  https://www.crackle.com
  CTV   https://www.ctv.ca
  DSNP  https://disneyplus.com
  HM    https://www.hmnow.com/
  HULU  https://hulu.com
  PLU   https://pluto.tv
  RBOX  https://www.redbox.com/ondemand-movies/
  ROKU  https://therokuchannel.roku.com
  SPOT  https://open.spotify.com
  iP    https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

[Spectrumhsm]

Maybe this will be a help to the Windows users
(I am not an expert, but just tried to get it working on Windows 11 using just CMD prompt).


Updated version
https://telegra.ph/Devine-On-Win-v003-04-10

All is working.

thanks.Useful info.

[Spectrumhsm]

While downloading from All4 I downloaded both video and audio files decrypted but it did not merge with the error:

OSError: Aria2c executable not found...

     ❌ Download Failed...
        One of the track downloads had an error!
        See the error trace above for more information.

[Attachment 78313 - Click to enlarge]

Any suggestions?
Thanks.

PS: merged audio and video manually with
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i audio.wav -c copy output.mkv

[PSXman_uk]

While downloading from All4 I downloaded both video and audio files decrypted but it did not merge with the error:

OSError: Aria2c executable not found...

     ❌ Download Failed...
        One of the track downloads had an error!
        See the error trace above for more information.

[Attachment 78313 - Click to enlarge]

Any suggestions?
Thanks.

PS: merged audio and video manually with
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i audio.wav -c copy output.mkv

--sub-format SRT

[Fallito]

achilles: Thank you. I put the file there and it seems to register now that the CTV service exists but I must have the cdm set up wrong:

Run "devine env info" again. Where it says [WVDs], make sure your .wvd is in there and the CDM you named in your config matches the filename of your .wvd file.

Once again thank you and I am thinking maybe I should move my .wvd file to appdata devine folder:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.2538]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\sheld\Desktop\devine\devine>devine env info

                       / __ \/ ____/ |  / /  _/ | / / ____/
                      / / / / __/  | | / // //  |/ / __/
                     / /_/ / /___  | |/ // // /|  / /___
                    /_____/_____/  |___/___/_/ |_/_____/
                    ⠀
                    v3.3.1 Copyright © 2019-2024 rlaphoenix
                      https://github.com/devine-dl/devine

     [Root Config]     : C:\Users\sheld\AppData\Local\devine\devine.yaml
     [Cookies]         : C:\Users\sheld\Desktop\devine\cookies
     [WVDs]            : C:\Users\sheld\AppData\Local\devine\WVDs
     [Cache]           : C:\Users\sheld\Desktop\devine\cache
     [Logs]            : C:\Users\sheld\Desktop\devine\logs
     [Temp Files]      : C:\Users\sheld\Desktop\devine\temp
     [Downloads]       : C:\Users\sheld\Desktop\devine\downloads

C:\Users\sheld\Desktop\devine\devine>devine dl -w s01e01 CTV cold-squad

                       / __ \/ ____/ |  / /  _/ | / / ____/
                      / / / / __/  | | / // //  |/ / __/
                     / /_/ / /___  | |/ // // /|  / /___
                    /_____/_____/  |___/___/_/ |_/_____/
                    ⠀
                    v3.3.1 Copyright © 2019-2024 rlaphoenix
                      https://github.com/devine-dl/devine

     Service Config loaded
     Failed to load Widevine CDM,
     C:\Users\sheld\Desktop\devine\WVDs\ANDROID_4464_l3.wvd does not exist
     or is not a file

C:\Users\sheld\Desktop\devine\devine>

Some pictures:


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@Tom Saurus

You have the WDVs Directory wrong! You have "WDVs: C:\Users\sheld\Desktop\devine\WVDs\ANDROID_4464_l3 .wvd" and that is the wdv location; the directory is just "C:\Users\sheld\Desktop\devine\WVDs". FIX IF AND DEVINE WILL FIND IT.

[pauli3]

Bump to get the rest of the freevine services ported across to devine. Having to juggle both these tools now, when this is one discontinued.

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

Bump to get the rest of the freevine services ported across to devine. Having to juggle both these tools now, when this is one discontinued.

Do you not realise how rude that is? StabbedByBrick has worked his socks off producing freevine for FREE, at no cost for you and our community. Yet here you are expecting him to slave away at your behest to do the transfer to Devine so you do not have to be inconvenienced. Poor you.

I imagine you must be about eight and haven't yet learnt any meaningful social awareness. Ask your Mum about manners and respect, could you? Then, instead of moaning, you could get off your backside and code some services yourself!

[Karoolus]

Bump to get the rest of the freevine services ported across to devine. Having to juggle both these tools now, when this is one discontinued.

You have some nerve...
How about you just do something yourself? I went through your post history and you've only ever leeched and asked for features instead of contributing something useful. Maybe it's time to give back to the community?

[SB47x]

Bump to get the rest of the freevine services ported across to devine. Having to juggle both these tools now, when this is one discontinued.

It must be a terrible inconvenience to you, having to use two different tools to download things. Thoughts and prayers.

[deccavox]

Bump to get the rest of the freevine services ported across to devine. Having to juggle both these tools now, when this is one discontinued.

Do you not realise how rude that is? StabbedByBrick has worked his socks off producing freevine for FREE, at no cost for you and our community. Yet here you are expecting him to slave away at your behest to do the transfer to Devine so you do not have to be inconvenienced. Poor you.

I imagine you must be about eight and haven't yet learnt any meaningful social awareness. Ask your Mum about manners and respect, could you? Then, instead of moaning, you could get off your backside and code some services yourself!

Absolutely and 2000% agree Angela and well said.
what an obnoxious self centred entity is this pauli3. Oh diddums, what a shame having to juggle your tools around. My heart bleeds for you (not).

[deccavox]

I have now got devine up and running with All4 and iplayer (including 4K), using Windows 10. Although the procedure is all in this thread, scattered about, I will outline my interpretation in hopefully layman's terms to help those that are struggling. I cannot say it is all my own work, another member gave me a lot of useful input. Also, member iamghost provided a huge amount of help with his posts.

The actual github page for devine is here: https://github.com/devine-dl/devine
It describes which dependencies are required, ie. CCExtractor, ffmpeg (and ffprobe), mkvtoolnix (the actual important file is mkvmerge.exe), shaka-packager and aria2c. Although you can put them in the devine folder that you will have, I personally have them in a separate folder on my C:\ drive (I've called mine download_tools), I've put them all in there and I've setup my Windows Environmental PATH to point to them.

1. You need to install the Python module 'poetry' as a global entity. So, open up a CMD terminal (anywhere) and

pip install poetry

FYI: poetry is an alternative to 'venv' but better. Also, normally, a requirements.txt would contain the list of packages required. poetry will use the pyproject.toml file instead to do the same.

2. Download and unzip devine: https://files.videohelp.com/u/301156/devine.zip
Put the devine folder somewhere convenient (I wouldn't recommend having too deep a folder structure).

3. clone stabbedbybrick's excellent devine-services: https://cdm-project.com/stabbedbybrick/devine-services into your .\devine\devine folder to replace the existing 'services' folder in there.

4. Copy/paste your .wvd file from your freevine to .\WVDs folder.
If you don't have a working wvd, see Angela's excellent instructions: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/411862-Beyond-WKS-KEYS#post2708046

5. In .\devine\devine folder, open devine.yaml in Notepad++ or similar. You need to change settings/paths to suit youir setup. Here's mine:

directories:
    services: D:\devine\devine\services
    temp: D:\devine\temp
    downloads: D:\devine\downloads
    cookies: D:\devine\cookies
    cache: D:\devine\cache
    logs: D:\devine\Logs
    WVDs: D:\devine\WVDs\ANDROID_1111_l3.wvd
cdm: 
  default: ANDROID_1111_l3
  
credentials: 
  ALL4: email:password
#  ROKU: email:password
  
key_vaults:
  - type: SQLite
    name: Local Vault
    path: D:\devine\devine\key_store.db

tag: ''
  
downloader: aria2c
         
profiles:
  default: default
services:
    iP:
        cert: D:\devine\devine\certs\bbciplayer.pem

Where yours may differ: I have put my devine folder in D:\. Swap that to your path setup.
My WVDs number is made up, but at least you can get the gist.
Note, where is says
'cdm:
default: ANDROID_1111_l3'
It's important to not include the extension '.wvd'.
I've #'d out ROKU. I don't use it.
Also, I've not given you my All4 email & p/w lol.

6. Go to C:\Users\your_pc_name\AppData\Local\
or, just enter %localappdata% in Windows search box
Create a folder called 'devine'
Copy/paste your WVDs folder and your 'device.yaml' to there, so that you end up with an actual folder WVDs and file devine.yaml in there.

7. Now let's create your venv. Go back to your (outer) devine folder.

poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true

FYI that will ensure the venv to be created is within your cwd (ie. devine folder)

8.

poetry install

FYI this will create your venv, complete with correct packages (from pyproject.toml). You should notice a new folder '.venv'

That's you all set up (unless I've missed something out lol.

To activate your venv:

poetry shell

Your command line will now start with (devine-py3.10)
You're in.
Let's try a few things

devine env info

That will list your working directories

devine dl -?

gives you all the download commands, including what channels are setup.

devine dl ALL4 -?

a bit of stabby's help regarding All4

Instead of ALL4 above, put in the channel that you're interested in, eg.

devine dl iP -?

for iplayer.

Just to get you going

devine dl -w s17e01 ALL4 taskmaster

or, for a 4K show:

devine dl -v H.265 -w S01E02 iP m001xxn5

To exit your venv, quote oficial poetry documentation:
To deactivate the virtual environment and exit this new shell type 'exit'. To deactivate the virtual environment without leaving the shell use 'deactivate'.
Probably just closing the terminal does the same lol.

Hope all that helps and I haven't missed anything out.

[achilles]

1. We have a thread for devine now, so that's where the post should go.
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/414154-Devine-Modular-Movie-TV-and-Music-Archival-Software
2. People need to stop downloading devine.zip from videohelp. There's an official repo. https://github.com/devine-dl/devine. It will always be the most up to date.
3. Cloning https://cdm-project.com/stabbedbybrick/devine-services will actually create a device-services/services directory. You will need to move that services directory to devine/services (which is probably where most people will put the services directory).
4. It is best to put your .wvd in your /users/USER/AppData/Local directory instead of putting in your devine directory. The reason is to not put private user stuff in your devine directory. The best thing is to let devine handle the wvd for you. "devine wvd add WVD_FILE" will put it in the right place.
5. People need to stop reposting that copied/pasted devine.yaml. It's not "WVDs:" It must be "wvds:". lowercase. And the filename should not be included. It only works if it's "wvds: d:\devine\wvds". The only reason why your setup works is because below you say you copied your WVDs folder to /user/USER/AppData/Local/devine anyway. That line in your config file does nothing. It does not change where devine looks for the WVDs but does confuse people who keep copying/pasting this same wrong config.yaml.

[A_n_g_e_l_a]

1.
2. People need to stop downloading devine.zip from videohelp. There's an official repo. https://github.com/devine-dl/devine. It will always be the most up to date.

By far the easiest way to install devine is via pip. Pheonix says so on github.
First set up an environment (explained elsewhere - search 'beyond WKS-KEYS')

pip install devine

My install found my wvd automatically and preconfigured devine.yaml with it.. And when new updates arrive 'pip install devine --upgrade' will save loads of hassle.