Anime Downloader

Ever dreamt about watching anime for free effortlessly without all those unbearable ads? Ever dreamt of downloading your favourite anime for that long trip?

Yeah. Me too! That's why this tool exists.

Features

• Download or stream any episode or episode range of any anime.
• Specify the quality you want to stream or download.
• Search available if don't want to copy the url.
• Save yourselves from those malicious ads.

Supported Sites

• 9anime
• KissAnime

Installation

You can install the stable release from PyPI.

$ pip install anime-downloader

To install the dev version

$ pip install -U git+https://github.com/vn-ki/anime-downloader.git

NOTE: You might have to use pip3 depending on your system

KissAnime support is currently only available in master. Use the following command to install with KissAnime support.

pip install -U git+https://github.com/vn-ki/anime-downloader.git#egg=anime-downloader'[cloudflare]'

IMP: For KissAnime scraping cfscrape is used. It depends on node-js. So if you want to use KissAnime, make sure you have node installed.

Usage

Anime downloader has two sub commands, dl and watch. watch does nothing currently (but when it does, it will be awesome!).

Run anime dl --help for help text on dl subcommand.

$ anime dl --help
Usage: anime dl [OPTIONS] ANIME_URL

  Download the anime using the url or search for it.

Options:
  -e, --episodes <int>:<int>      Range of anime you want to download in the
                                  form <start>:<end>
  -p, --save-playlist             If flag is set, saves the stream urls in an
                                  m3u file instead of downloading
  -u, --url                       If flag is set, prints the stream url
                                  instead of downloading
  --play PLAYER                   Streams in the specified player
  --no-download                   Retrieve without downloading
  --download-dir TEXT             Specifiy the directory to download to
  -q, --quality [360p|480p|720p]  Specify the quality of episode. Default-720p
  -f, --force                     Force downloads even if file exists
  -ll, --log-level [DEBUG|INFO|WARNING|ERROR]
                                  Sets the level of logger
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

You can use this tool to search and download or download directly from the url.

Search and download

• To search and download all episodes.

anime dl 'code geass'

NOTE: The above command shows the search results (which would fit you're terminal size 😇) and you can select the desired result.

Download directly

• To download Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood all episodes

anime dl 'https://9anime.is/watch/fullmetal-alchemist-brotherhood.0r7/j69y93'

• To download Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood episode 1

anime dl 'https://9anime.is/watch/fullmetal-alchemist-brotherhood.0r7/j69y93' --episodes 1

• To download Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood episode 1 to 20

anime dl 'https://9anime.is/watch/fullmetal-alchemist-brotherhood.0r7/j69y93' --episodes 1:21

• To get stream url of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood episode 1.

anime dl 'https://9anime.is/watch/fullmetal-alchemist-brotherhood.0r7/j69y93' --url --episodes 1

• To play using vlc. (On windows use path to exe)

anime dl 'https://9anime.is/watch/fullmetal-alchemist-brotherhood.0r7/j69y93' --play vlc --episodes 1

To use anime_downloader in your package

This tool can be used as a library. This means you can import it into your own application and search for anime and do many other wonderful things. See documentation.

Development Instructions

# Clone this repo
$ git clone https://github.com/vn-ki/anime-downloader.git

# Run setup.py
$ cd anime-downloader
$ pip install -e .

TODO

• Support for more sites

Please don't judge me for not paying for anime. I want to support these animation studios, but being a college student, I can't.

arigatou gozaimasu