Unshackle - Modular Movie, TV, and Music Archival Software

[SummerArk]

Starting a new Unshackle discussion to keep it out of billybanana's Devine thread.

https://github.com/unshackle-dl/unshackle

Discuss away

[billybanana]

Haha, now get ready for all the PM'S you'll get from people thinking you're behind Unshackle. I've lived that Devine life just from starting the thread.

[Tom Saurus]

I might give it a try as long as I can still have Devine installed and working along side it. I also want to try Ozvine and AllHellYes.

[deccavox]

A couple of teething problems but, yes, much much much much easier to install than devine. I'm a great fan of uv and use it with all my scripts now. It makes the installation, installing dependencies and creating venvs a piece of piss. And it's incredibly easy to pass on a complete project to others and they have minimal work to do to get it going (usually just 'uv sync').

I've still to tailor my download settings in the unshackle.yaml file. I've installed it so that everything is completely self contained within its own folder (ie. not global). That's the way I prefer it. I've tested it out on the usual UK channels: ITVX, STV, iplayer, All4, My5, UKTV. Works well. I've done nothing fancy, just downlloaded individual epsisodes so far.

Let's hope that unshackle remains supported by the developer.

PS, did I mention how much easier it is to install than devine and bloody poetry

[ImSp4rky]

A couple of teething problems but, yes, much much much much easier to install than devine. I'm a great fan of uv and use it with all my scripts now. It makes the installation, installing dependencies and creating venvs a piece of piss. And it's incredibly easy to pass on a complete project to others and they have minimal work to do to get it going (usually just 'uv sync')...

I'm happy to try to clean up those teething problems; I want to make the general installation and preparation as seamless as possible. What parts caused issues other than copying services over and renaming the "from devine" to "from unshackle" I've added some additional commands for Windows/Mac/Unix for automating this process https://github.com/unshackle-dl/unshackle/wiki/Migration-from-Devine

Wiki has some initial information, but will be opening it further.

I'm looking to support this for the foreseeable future, as it's my primary tool for archiving my content.

Issues/problems can either be raised on Github or mentioned here and I will raise on your behalf.