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.

[Tom Saurus]

No I didn't put it in quotations and I now put in the program name in and I am getting closer as it looks like other than 403 forbidden error it is getting closer. I am going to sign out here and go to CBC Gem and sign in and see about getting a video to archive.

Saint-Pierre I am giving it a second chance it didn't suck me in like "The Republic Of Doyle" which I liked so much I memorized the theme song.

[Tom Saurus]

Sorry I am getting stopped by a 403 error. I was signed into CBC Gem and finally got the correct url and put in the line of code but it has failed. Regardless even if this doesn't work for me I appreciate your advice and I am bit ashamed for sidetracking this thread about Devine.

I'm back after taking a closer look at your first screenshot I see the "lock" url and that must be the one with the token. I also looked up 403 error here at Videohelp so I am going to give this a try again and see if I can be successful at this.

[WhiskeyJack]

the link expires, you need to get a fresh link
it will be the link that aligns with

200 | get | cbcrcott | index-aes.m3u8?pckgrp=

Which is usually the first one that loads on FF/Zen

[Tom Saurus]

the link expires, you need to get a fresh link
it will be the link that aligns with

200 | get | cbcrcott | index-aes.m3u8?pckgrp=

Which is usually the first one that loads on FF/Zen

Thank you and I will give this a try right away and see how this works out.

[Tom Saurus]

I had success and the subititles are embedded in the video file. I am sure there is a command that can be added into the command line to mux the audio and video together. The chapters were not included but they download so fast via Devine that one could get them just by requesting Devine to get the chapters only and it would be just a matter of seconds and then just mux them into the file as well I would think. Though other than be a tad slower with Devine and then the download stopping for whatever reason for certain videos in your episode range it is a terrific tool. Perhaps it is something like one's anti-virus updating itself that wants some bandwidth to do its task and Devine doesn't want to share. TUBI doesn't usually give me this problem but it very noticable on the UK Services and CBC.

Devine is terrific and I am sorry for this distraction. Thanks WiskeyJack and thank you for your patience. For whatever reason I never did see the red padlock icon and it wasn't first in line but "pckgrp=" eventually was noticed by me. Also this has opened up my mind like on that 2001 A Space Odyssey moment where they play Rick Flair's Wrestling Entrance Music. The tokens part of CBC Devine this is what this code is. I feel rather smart but I am sure it is just a momentary illusion.

[WhiskeyJack]

ccextractor <target-video.mkv>

Make sure it's the correct, earlier version of ccextractor, the latest version fails.

https://github.com/CCExtractor/ccextractor/releases/tag/v0.90
This is the version I use (compiled my own build and hosted privately for NIXOS, but that github link is what I compile against, but the msi file should install for you on Windows. )
5.1 audio for some reason fails, kinda. Find the downloaded files, and concatenate them (That's your own homework )
mkvmerge the lot, and you're sorted

mkvmerge is part of the mkvtoolnix suite

https://mkvtoolnix.download/downloads.html

you can merge cmd style using something like

 mkvmerge -o <output video name.mkv> --title "<Video title" --track-name 0:"Video" <video stream> --track-name 0:"English" --language 0:en-CA <audio-stream.m4a>  --track-name 0:"English [SDH]" --hearing-impaired-flag 0:yes --sub-charset 0:UTF-8 --language 0:en-CA <subtitle.srt>

Rick Flair's Wrestling Entrance Music.

Ricahrd Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szdziw4tI9o

[iamkennethy_]

I have just tried downloading the same episode and it works fine.

So, a couple more questions.

Is this the only service you are having problems with?

Where did you get your wvd from? (downloaded/created/extracted)

Looking at your envs file, I assume you are using windows.

Also it looks like it's failing and not downloading anything.

So open a command prompt in windows. cmd.exe
type:

pip list

make sure that 'requests' is in the list, as that is the default downloader.

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ok im getting irritated, before i reinstalled devine i got the same error for tubi, now im getting the same error, i installed the EXACT versions required for devine and it still gives me this annoying error.

I am no expert. But i'd be looking at the modules that download stuff, to make sure they are all installed.

CCExtractor for extracting Closed Caption data like EIA-608 from video streams and converting as SRT.
FFmpeg (and ffprobe) for repacking/remuxing streams on specific services, and evaluating stream data.
MKVToolNix v54+ for muxing individual streams to an .mkv file.
shaka-packager for decrypting CENC-CTR and CENC-CBCS video and audio streams.
(optional) aria2(c) to use as a downloader.

Also check 'devine env info' that the paths look correct.

Post the errors you are getting.(if it tells you)

Are you using a vpn? Can you watch it in a browser, without errors?

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idk how to see my errors, but this is what ts looks like on my end, plus i dont use a vpn

the wvd i have was downloaded and extracted from a zip file.

i do have the requests thing on the pip list cmd, and the request version i have is 2.32.3

ok, not being rude but i hope nobody forgot me

[phased]

ok, not being rude but i hope nobody forgot me

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/414154-Devine-Modular-Movie-TV-and-Music-Archival-...52#post2772818

[Tom Saurus]

Devine tip: Keep an eye on your "temp folder" as for mine at least failed downloads gather in there. I had nearly thirty gigabytes of partial files in their. I deleted them and no harm no foul and freed up some space.

Also I have wrote how much I still like Freevine and that is more forgiving. One of things I like is being able to pick up where you left off when you are getting a season of a show. The program knows you have download such and such episodes and can then go on when you have a problem where one episode has failed to download. What I do if I am downloading a season or a whole season in Freevine I have my line of code and I copy and paste until I have eight more lines in a list of that code and if a download fails a lot of times the other line of code continues on the download. With Devine if you tried that it doesn't remember what you had an you could overwrite what you already have unless I am mistaken but I think I am correct.

Both Freevine and Devine and thank you stabbedbybrick for the services. Thank you to all those who take the time to help us figure out how to install it and run it.

[SirBacon]

For some reason when downloading from All4, some episodes are missing or skipped over, so I have to manually copy the link and paste it into the command line. Has anyone had this issue or know what to do?

[SummerArk]

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ok im getting irritated, before i reinstalled devine i got the same error for tubi, now im getting the same error, i installed the EXACT versions required for devine and it still gives me this annoying error.

I think there is an obscure error in one of the python 3.13.2 packages. I had errors like this with a previously working devine setup after machine updated itself.
Eventually I reinstalled devine with its own venv using an older python (3.12) and it all worked again. My computer has had several updates since moving to python 3.13.3 and the original install of devine works once more.

ok, not being rude but i hope nobody forgot me

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/414154-Devine-Modular-Movie-TV-and-Music-Archival-...52#post2772818

phased,

From my [bad] memory, I think that someone mentioned (posted on this thread) that "devine" is not supported on Python 3.13. Someone, may want to verify, for me.

[phased]

phased,

From my [bad] memory, I think that someone mentioned (posted on this thread) that "devine" is not supported on Python 3.13. Someone, may want to verify, for me.

Then 'someone' was wrong. I still have, and use, the venv using python 3.12 but my system received python 3.13 updates a few weeks ago that allowed Devine with python 3.13 to function again. I just think there was a hiccup in one of the python packages.

Remember devine was written when 3.12 was current. And its not been updated since. Later pythons work hard to be backwards compatible, so there is no reason why python 3.14 won't work when it arrives.

[deva67]

HI guys, newbie here..

Looking to practice test out devine first time, so that I can get to grips with it components.. Services, Profiles, Provisions etc..

Looking at the services shared https://cdm-project.com/stabbedbybrick/devine-services what is a good service for a new user that is not geoblocked? Thanks.

[SaintyUK]

@stabbedbybrick: 2160p for CBS seems to have stopped being offered. Any idea what happened and if it's still possible to still get?

[stabbedbybrick]

@stabbedbybrick: 2160p for CBS seems to have stopped being offered. Any idea what happened and if it's still possible to still get?

From an initial quick look it seems like they've simply removed 2160p content for CBS shows. When I check with Paramountplus, only the originals and movies return 2160p now, whereas all the CBS shows I tried return 1080p at best.

There might be more to it, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is the case. Paramount has steadily been reducing the quality overall.

[SaintyUK]

Thank you sir for checking so rapidly! Great info. Cheers!

[grimeire]

Does shaka-packager have to be renamed to something in particular for linux.

I downloaded packager-linux-x64 from the shaka github repo and place 3 copies of it in /bin/ called packager-linux-x64, shaka-packager and packager but still get the same error below. I tired with aria2c as download also but get some error.

❌ Download Failed...
An unexpected error occurred in one of the download workers.
See the error trace above for more information.

All other dependencies seem to work fine and are installed via package manager. Any idea where i could find a log to tell me whats actually wrong as "/root/.cache/devine/log" has not been helpful

Heres my config and output of env info.

directories:
  services: /mnt/storage-drive/stuff/CDM-stuff/devine/devine-configs/devine/services
  WVDs: /mnt/storage-drive/stuff/CDM-stuff/devine/devine-configs/devine/WVDs
  downloads: /mnt/storage-drive/requests/
  temp: /mnt/storage-drive/requests/devine
  cache: /mnt/storage-drive/requests/devine/cache

cdm:
  default: ANDROID_8159_l3

#downloader:
#    aria2c


key_vaults:
- type: SQLite
  name: Local Vault
  path: /mnt/storage-drive/requests/CDM-stuff/devine/devine-configs/devine/key_store.db

# Set proxy to be used when invoking --proxy
# See README and help documentation on how to set up proxies
proxy: # basic, hola or windscribe

# If using windscribe, credentials must be provided
windscribe:
  username:
  password:
profiles:
  default: default

I dont understand why i have 2 WvD paths here. seems the one in my config does not work and i have to copy WVD to "/root/.local/share/devine/WVDs "

                       / __ \/ ____/ |  / /  _/ | / / ____/
                      / / / / __/  | | / // //  |/ / __/
                     / /_/ / /___  | |/ // // /|  / /___
                    /_____/_____/  |___/___/_/ |_/_____/
                    ⠀
                    v3.3.3 Copyright © 2019-2025 rlaphoenix
                      https://github.com/devine-dl/devine

     Config loaded from /root/.config/devine/devine.yaml

                                  Directories
     ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
     ┃ Name          ┃ Path                                               ┃
     ┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
     │ Wvds          │ /mnt/storage-drive/stuff/CDM-stuff/devine/devine-… │
     │ Cache         │ /mnt/storage-drive/requests/devine/cache           │
     │ Commands      │ /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/devine/co… │
     │ Cookies       │ /root/.local/share/devine/Cookies                  │
     │ Core_Dir      │ /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/devine/co… │
     │ Data          │ /root/.local/share/devine                          │
     │ Dcsl          │ /root/.local/share/devine/DCSL                     │
     │ Downloads     │ /mnt/storage-drive/requests                        │
     │ Fonts         │ /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/devine/fo… │
     │ Logs          │ /root/.cache/devine/log                            │
     │ Namespace_Dir │ /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/devine     │
     │ Services      │ /mnt/storage-drive/stuff/CDM-stuff/devine/devine-… │
     │ Temp          │ /mnt/storage-drive/requests/devine                 │
     │ User_Configs  │ /root/.config/devine                               │
     │ Vaults        │ /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/devine/va… │
     │ Wvds          │ /root/.local/share/devine/WVDs                     │

[pelago]

Is it possible to download ITV news videos, which have URLs like https://www.itv.com/watch/news/catch-up-on-itv-news-anglia-west-from-wednesday-14th-may/hjpzn73 (note the additional "news/" after "watch/")?

[iamkennethy_]

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hey, how do i fix this error

[Wilkies]

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hey, how do i fix this error

Have a look at the "devine.yaml" file in your appdata/local/devine folder.

in the "dl:" section, do you have "sub_format: srt"?

[Wilkies]

How do I download just 1 series of a show without having to manually download each episode?

[sipho]

How do I download just 1 series of a show without having to manually download each episode?

devine dl -w s01-s03 (season 1 to 3 inclusive)

or
devine dl -w s01,s03,s05 (only those seasons)

[phased]

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hey, how do i fix this error

Fix? I don't know. But I have the exact same error with Python 3.13.3 and found a work-around is to use python 3.12.10. Assume one of the python updates is screwed.

https://chatgpt.com/share/68318a7b-96e8-800e-a25a-c8b3cce74c97 explains creating a venv with specific python version.

[dwk33]

Thanks to Tom Saurus for helping me solve a problem with Channel 4/ALL4. I wasn't aware of the devine cache, and I've now deleted the ALL4 devine cache entry. Magically, ALL4 now works again!
dwk33

[iamkennethy_]

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hey, how do i fix this error

Have a look at the "devine.yaml" file in your appdata/local/devine folder.

in the "dl:" section, do you have "sub_format: srt"?

i do, but it still dont work

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