#Ananse 
- INSTALLATION
- DESCRIPTION
- FEATURES
- OPTIONS
- OUTPUT TEMPLATE
- VIDEO SELECTION
- DEVELOPER INSTRUCTIONS
- CONTRIBUTING
- BUGS
- COPYRIGHT
Still under development but if you want to try it right away refer to the developer instructions below for how to check out and work with the git repository.
Ananse is a download manager in every sense of the word allowing you to download videos and files from multiple sites including Youtube.com. It requires the Python interpreter, version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+, and it is not platform specific. It should work on your Unix box, on Windows or on Mac OS X. It is released to the public domain, which means you can modify it, redistribute it or use it however you like. It is build on youtube-dl, Although it has been restructured to provide the features below, it is still compatible with youtube-dl
- GUI Support (not implemented) See all your downloads and set downloading options for all downloads without typing a single thing at the command line
- Command Line Usage Use Ananse from the command line as you will use any other command line application
- Browser Integration (not implemented) Integrates into any internet application to take over downloads using easily understood and implemented APIs
- Video Grabber (not implemented) Easily downloads streaming videos with only one click
- Support Many types of Protocols and Proxy Servers Provide support for many types of protocols and proxy server like ftp, http/https, rtmp etc
- Download Categorization (not implemented) Automatically organize all your downloads using defined download categories to make locating downloaded files easy
- Download Acceleration (not implemented) Speeds up downloading by up to 5 time due to intelligent dynamic file segmentation technology
- Download Resume Ananse will resume unfinished download from the place where they left off. Comprehensive error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to lost or dropped connections, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpected power outages.
For any feature not included open an issues and label it as a feature request
Since we are restructuring the application not all options will work as expected for now
-h, --help print this help text and exit
--version print program version and exit
-U, --update update this program to latest version. Make
sure that you have sufficient permissions
(run with sudo if needed)
-i, --ignore-errors continue on download errors, for example to
skip unavailable videos in a playlist
--abort-on-error Abort downloading of further videos (in the
playlist or the command line) if an error
occurs
--dump-user-agent display the current browser identification
--list-extractors List all supported extractors and the URLs
they would handle
--extractor-descriptions Output descriptions of all supported
extractors
--proxy URL Use the specified HTTP/HTTPS proxy. Pass in
an empty string (--proxy "") for direct
connection
--socket-timeout None Time to wait before giving up, in seconds
--default-search PREFIX Use this prefix for unqualified URLs. For
example "gvsearch2:" downloads two videos
from google videos for youtube-dl "large
apple". Use the value "auto" to let
youtube-dl guess ("auto_warning" to emit a
warning when guessing). "error" just throws
an error. The default value "fixup_error"
repairs broken URLs, but emits an error if
this is not possible instead of searching.
--ignore-config Do not read configuration files. When given
in the global configuration file /etc
/youtube-dl.conf: Do not read the user
configuration in ~/.config/youtube-
dl/config (%APPDATA%/youtube-dl/config.txt
on Windows)
--flat-playlist Do not extract the videos of a playlist,
only list them.
--playlist-start NUMBER playlist video to start at (default is 1)
--playlist-end NUMBER playlist video to end at (default is last)
--match-title REGEX download only matching titles (regex or
caseless sub-string)
--reject-title REGEX skip download for matching titles (regex or
caseless sub-string)
--max-downloads NUMBER Abort after downloading NUMBER files
--min-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos smaller than
SIZE (e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
--max-filesize SIZE Do not download any videos larger than SIZE
(e.g. 50k or 44.6m)
--date DATE download only videos uploaded in this date
--datebefore DATE download only videos uploaded on or before
this date (i.e. inclusive)
--dateafter DATE download only videos uploaded on or after
this date (i.e. inclusive)
--min-views COUNT Do not download any videos with less than
COUNT views
--max-views COUNT Do not download any videos with more than
COUNT views
--no-playlist If the URL refers to a video and a
playlist, download only the video.
--age-limit YEARS download only videos suitable for the given
age
--download-archive FILE Download only videos not listed in the
archive file. Record the IDs of all
downloaded videos in it.
--include-ads Download advertisements as well
(experimental)
-r, --rate-limit LIMIT maximum download rate in bytes per second
(e.g. 50K or 4.2M)
-R, --retries RETRIES number of retries (default is 10)
--buffer-size SIZE size of download buffer (e.g. 1024 or 16K)
(default is 1024)
--no-resize-buffer do not automatically adjust the buffer
size. By default, the buffer size is
automatically resized from an initial value
of SIZE.
--playlist-reverse Download playlist videos in reverse order
-a, --batch-file FILE file containing URLs to download ('-' for
stdin)
--id use only video ID in file name
-o, --output TEMPLATE output filename template. Use %(title)s to
get the title, %(uploader)s for the
uploader name, %(uploader_id)s for the
uploader nickname if different,
%(autonumber)s to get an automatically
incremented number, %(ext)s for the
filename extension, %(format)s for the
format description (like "22 - 1280x720" or
"HD"), %(format_id)s for the unique id of
the format (like Youtube's itags: "137"),
%(upload_date)s for the upload date
(YYYYMMDD), %(extractor)s for the provider
(youtube, metacafe, etc), %(id)s for the
video id, %(playlist_title)s,
%(playlist_id)s, or %(playlist)s (=title if
present, ID otherwise) for the playlist the
video is in, %(playlist_index)s for the
position in the playlist. %(height)s and
%(width)s for the width and height of the
video format. %(resolution)s for a textual
description of the resolution of the video
format. %% for a literal percent. Use - to
output to stdout. Can also be used to
download to a different directory, for
example with -o '/my/downloads/%(uploader)s
/%(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s' .
--autonumber-size NUMBER Specifies the number of digits in
%(autonumber)s when it is present in output
filename template or --auto-number option
is given
--restrict-filenames Restrict filenames to only ASCII
characters, and avoid "&" and spaces in
filenames
-A, --auto-number [deprecated; use -o
"%(autonumber)s-%(title)s.%(ext)s" ] number
downloaded files starting from 00000
-t, --title [deprecated] use title in file name
(default)
-l, --literal [deprecated] alias of --title
-w, --no-overwrites do not overwrite files
-c, --continue force resume of partially downloaded files.
By default, youtube-dl will resume
downloads if possible.
--no-continue do not resume partially downloaded files
(restart from beginning)
--no-part do not use .part files - write directly
into output file
--no-mtime do not use the Last-modified header to set
the file modification time
--write-description write video description to a .description
file
--write-info-json write video metadata to a .info.json file
--write-annotations write video annotations to a .annotation
file
--write-thumbnail write thumbnail image to disk
--load-info FILE json file containing the video information
(created with the "--write-json" option)
--cookies FILE file to read cookies from and dump cookie
jar in
--cache-dir DIR Location in the filesystem where youtube-dl
can store some downloaded information
permanently. By default $XDG_CACHE_HOME
/youtube-dl or ~/.cache/youtube-dl . At the
moment, only YouTube player files (for
videos with obfuscated signatures) are
cached, but that may change.
--no-cache-dir Disable filesystem caching
--rm-cache-dir Delete all filesystem cache files
-q, --quiet activates quiet mode
--no-warnings Ignore warnings
-s, --simulate do not download the video and do not write
anything to disk
--skip-download do not download the video
-g, --get-url simulate, quiet but print URL
-e, --get-title simulate, quiet but print title
--get-id simulate, quiet but print id
--get-thumbnail simulate, quiet but print thumbnail URL
--get-description simulate, quiet but print video description
--get-duration simulate, quiet but print video length
--get-filename simulate, quiet but print output filename
--get-format simulate, quiet but print output format
-j, --dump-json simulate, quiet but print JSON information.
See --output for a description of available
keys.
-J, --dump-single-json simulate, quiet but print JSON information
for each command-line argument. If the URL
refers to a playlist, dump the whole
playlist information in a single line.
--newline output progress bar as new lines
--no-progress do not print progress bar
--console-title display progress in console titlebar
-v, --verbose print various debugging information
--dump-intermediate-pages print downloaded pages to debug problems
(very verbose)
--write-pages Write downloaded intermediary pages to
files in the current directory to debug
problems
--print-traffic Display sent and read HTTP traffic
--encoding ENCODING Force the specified encoding (experimental)
--no-check-certificate Suppress HTTPS certificate validation.
--prefer-insecure Use an unencrypted connection to retrieve
information about the video. (Currently
supported only for YouTube)
--user-agent UA specify a custom user agent
--referer URL specify a custom referer, use if the video
access is restricted to one domain
--add-header FIELD:VALUE specify a custom HTTP header and its value,
separated by a colon ':'. You can use this
option multiple times
--bidi-workaround Work around terminals that lack
bidirectional text support. Requires bidiv
or fribidi executable in PATH
-f, --format FORMAT video format code, specify the order of
preference using slashes: -f 22/17/18 . -f
mp4 , -f m4a and -f flv are also
supported. You can also use the special
names "best", "bestvideo", "bestaudio",
"worst", "worstvideo" and "worstaudio". By
default, youtube-dl will pick the best
quality. Use commas to download multiple
audio formats, such as -f
136/137/mp4/bestvideo,140/m4a/bestaudio.
You can merge the video and audio of two
formats into a single file using -f <video-
format>+<audio-format> (requires ffmpeg or
avconv), for example -f
bestvideo+bestaudio.
--all-formats download all available video formats
--prefer-free-formats prefer free video formats unless a specific
one is requested
--max-quality FORMAT highest quality format to download
-F, --list-formats list all available formats
--youtube-skip-dash-manifest Do not download the DASH manifest on
YouTube videos
--write-sub write subtitle file
--write-auto-sub write automatic subtitle file (youtube
only)
--all-subs downloads all the available subtitles of
the video
--list-subs lists all available subtitles for the video
--sub-format FORMAT subtitle format (default=srt) ([sbv/vtt]
youtube only)
--sub-lang LANGS languages of the subtitles to download
(optional) separated by commas, use IETF
language tags like 'en,pt'
-u, --username USERNAME login with this account ID
-p, --password PASSWORD account password
-2, --twofactor TWOFACTOR two-factor auth code
-n, --netrc use .netrc authentication data
--video-password PASSWORD video password (vimeo, smotri)
-x, --extract-audio convert video files to audio-only files
(requires ffmpeg or avconv and ffprobe or
avprobe)
--audio-format FORMAT "best", "aac", "vorbis", "mp3", "m4a",
"opus", or "wav"; "best" by default
--audio-quality QUALITY ffmpeg/avconv audio quality specification,
insert a value between 0 (better) and 9
(worse) for VBR or a specific bitrate like
128K (default 5)
--recode-video FORMAT Encode the video to another format if
necessary (currently supported:
mp4|flv|ogg|webm|mkv)
-k, --keep-video keeps the video file on disk after the
post-processing; the video is erased by
default
--no-post-overwrites do not overwrite post-processed files; the
post-processed files are overwritten by
default
--embed-subs embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4
videos)
--embed-thumbnail embed thumbnail in the audio as cover art
--add-metadata write metadata to the video file
--xattrs write metadata to the video file's xattrs
(using dublin core and xdg standards)
--prefer-avconv Prefer avconv over ffmpeg for running the
postprocessors (default)
--prefer-ffmpeg Prefer ffmpeg over avconv for running the
postprocessors
--exec CMD Execute a command on the file after
downloading, similar to find's -exec
syntax. Example: --exec 'adb push {}
/sdcard/Music/ && rm {}'
The -o option allows users to indicate a template for the output file names. The basic usage is not to set any template arguments when downloading a single file, like in ananse -o funny_video.flv "http://some/video". However, it may contain special sequences that will be replaced when downloading each video. The special sequences have the format %(NAME)s. To clarify, that is a percent symbol followed by a name in parenthesis, followed by a lowercase S. Allowed names are:
id: The sequence will be replaced by the video identifier.url: The sequence will be replaced by the video URL.uploader: The sequence will be replaced by the nickname of the person who uploaded the video.upload_date: The sequence will be replaced by the upload date in YYYYMMDD format.title: The sequence will be replaced by the video title.ext: The sequence will be replaced by the appropriate extension (like flv or mp4).epoch: The sequence will be replaced by the Unix epoch when creating the file.autonumber: The sequence will be replaced by a five-digit number that will be increased with each download, starting at zero.playlist: The name or the id of the playlist that contains the video.playlist_index: The index of the video in the playlist, a five-digit number.
The current default template is %(title)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s.
In some cases, you don't want special characters such as 中, spaces, or &, such as when transferring the downloaded filename to a Windows system or the filename through an 8bit-unsafe channel. In these cases, add the --restrict-filenames flag to get a shorter title:
$ ananse --get-filename -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc
ananse test video ''_ä↭𝕐.mp4 # All kinds of weird characters$ ananse --get-filename -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" BaW_jenozKc --restrict-filenames
ananse_test_video_.mp4 # A simple file nameVideos can be filtered by their upload date using the options --date, --datebefore or --dateafter, they accept dates in two formats:
- Absolute dates: Dates in the format
YYYYMMDD. - Relative dates: Dates in the format
(now|today)[+-][0-9](day|week|month|year)(s)?
Examples:
####Download only the videos uploaded in the last 6 months
$ ananse --dateafter now-6months
$ ananse --date 19700101
$ # will only download the videos uploaded in the 200x decade
$ ananse --dateafter 20000101 --datebefore 20091231`To run Ananse as a developer, you don't need to build anything either. Simply execute
cd Ananse
python ananse [options] url [url...]
To run the test, simply invoke your favorite test runner, or execute a test file directly; any of the following work:
python -m unittest discover
python test/test_download.py
nosetests --verbose
If you want to create a build of ananse yourself, you'll need
- python
- make
- pandoc
- zip
- nosetests
Coming soon. But any extractor that works in youtube-dl will work here
Note: All pull requests for extractors should be send to the extractor_testing branch and if your extractor passes it test will be merge to the master branch. Because extractors don't always behaviors as expected and something pass while other times fail, extractor tests has be disable in the master branch
See the CONTRIBUTING file
See CONTRIBUTING
Ananse is released into the public domain by the copyright holders.
This README file is adapted from youtube-dl