Devine - Modular Movie, TV, and Music Archival Software

[Tom Saurus]

I have been able to get CBC working. It was a matter of getting a new Chrome Add On for getting cookies and then deleting a file named CBC in the Devine Cache folder. So it works fine though it is frustrating as it has a habit of dropping the download a fair bit. But with some additional effort you can archive what you want.

You know there is no drm on CBC content? Use n-m3u8re on the master.m3u8 found in the inspection console, under network.
Grab the url, edit it (change the desktop to smarttv) and it will grab most of what you need. Some additional work is needed (the 5.1 audio has to be concatinated. and the streams need to be muxed. But, hey it works.)

I certainly would like additional options with CBC. With Devine the suddenly stop downloading thing is quite disheartning. But with patience one just keeps pecking away at eventually you get all the episodes you want to archive. With DSL you never know when it is going to dip or perhaps another program wants internet access so that probably affects things. Thank you for your post.

[WhiskeyJack]

I have been able to get CBC working. It was a matter of getting a new Chrome Add On for getting cookies and then deleting a file named CBC in the Devine Cache folder. So it works fine though it is frustrating as it has a habit of dropping the download a fair bit. But with some additional effort you can archive what you want.

You know there is no drm on CBC content? Use n-m3u8re on the master.m3u8 found in the inspection console, under network.
Grab the url, edit it (change the desktop to smarttv) and it will grab most of what you need. Some additional work is needed (the 5.1 audio has to be concatinated. and the streams need to be muxed. But, hey it works.)

I certainly would like additional options with CBC. With Devine the suddenly stop downloading thing is quite disheartning. But with patience one just keeps pecking away at eventually you get all the episodes you want to archive. With DSL you never know when it is going to dip or perhaps another program wants internet access so that probably affects things. Thank you for your post.

Briefly, open the video page and inspection console search m3u8, and grab the url for index.m3u8

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In this example the url provided is

https://cbcrcott-aws-gem.akamaized.net/out/v1/12fc1352a15d40e1957ac41ee39356d4/026bf27581e640c4b4fb78ae5aaa5021/4992c413374a4be4af23a7b5453f28df/index-aes.m3u8?pckgrp=bf5b9c2800b7e86d48330ceb5add54a4&ewid=83317&manifestType=desktop&hdnea=st=1746032914~exp=1746033034~acl=*~hmac=58e094f50aabe60c4b9c932711c73139a5120dade704cad8e1b540fa0f24ca79&EIA608ClosedCaptions=true&lang=en

change the type flag from desktop to smarttv

https://cbcrcott-aws-gem.akamaized.net/out/v1/12fc1352a15d40e1957ac41ee39356d4/026bf27581e640c4b4fb78ae5aaa5021/4992c413374a4be4af23a7b5453f28df/index-aes.m3u8?pckgrp=bf5b9c2800b7e86d48330ceb5add54a4&ewid=83317&manifestType=smarttv&hdnea=st=1746032914~exp=1746033034~acl=*~hmac=58e094f50aabe60c4b9c932711c73139a5120dade704cad8e1b540fa0f24ca79&EIA608ClosedCaptions=true&lang=en

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After that, you can figure it out for yourself
Good luck

[Tom Saurus]

Thank you WhiskyJack. I will give it a try and I am thinking this might work on BBC iPlay as well. At the moment I have figured out a way of using YT-DLP to download from there and info I get from VideoDownload Helper to get the correct m3u8. But this method you have is probably better as it might get the subtitles as well.

[Tom Saurus]

I am sorry I was not able to get that method to work WiskeyJack. N_m3U8DL-RE spit out "htpps is not a caommand" and the list goes on. Sainte Pierre" was actually the show I was working on so that is quite a coinidence that was the example you provided. I finished up with Devine to get what I was missing.

Thank you WiskeyJack for your kindness.

[WhiskeyJack]

I am sorry I was not able to get that method to work WiskeyJack. N_m3U8DL-RE spit out "htpps is not a caommand" and the list goes on. Sainte Pierre" was actually the show I was working on so that is quite a coinidence that was the example you provided. I finished up with Devine to get what I was missing.

Thank you WiskeyJack for your kindness.

Did you place the url in quotations?
n-m3u8-re "<target-url>"

Saint Pierre was the first page that opened on my browser, I ripped the show months back and uploaded it in a few places.