touka9029/nndownload

Download videos and process other links from Niconico (nicovideo.jp).

nndownload

nndownload allows you to process videos and other links from Niconico, formerly known as Nico Nico Douga. For videos, it simulates the HTML5 player by performing a session request to get the HQ source. Where not available, it will fallback to the Flash player. Keep in mind that if your account doesn't have premium, it may download the LQ source during economy mode hours (12 PM - 2 AM JST). When not providing a login, some Flash videos will not be available for download or will only be available in a lower quality.

Features

• Download videos with comments, thumbnails, and metadata
• Download Seiga images and manga
• Download a user's videos
• Download mylists
• Download videos faster using multiple threads
• Generate stream URLs for Niconama broadcasts
• Process text files with URLs

Requirements

Python version

• Python >=3.6

Dependencies

• beautifulsoup4
• requests
• websockets

Installation

pip install nndownload

Binaries for Windows are available on the releases page.

Usage

CLI

usage: nndownload.py [options] input

positional arguments:
  input                 URL or file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
                        account username
  -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
                        account password
  -n, --netrc           use .netrc authentication
  -q, --quiet           suppress output to console
  -l, --log             log output to file
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit

download options:
  -y PROXY, --proxy PROXY
                        http or socks proxy
  -o TEMPLATE, --output-path TEMPLATE
                        custom output path (see template options)
  -r N, --threads N     download using a specified number of threads
  -g, --no-login        create a download session without logging in
  -f, --force-high-quality
                        only download if the high quality source is available
  -m, --dump-metadata   dump video metadata to file
  -t, --download-thumbnail
                        download video thumbnail
  -c, --download-comments
                        download video comments
  -e, --english         request video on english site
  -aq AUDIO_QUALITY, --audio-quality AUDIO_QUALITY
                        specify audio quality (DMC videos only)
  -vq VIDEO_QUALITY, --video-quality VIDEO_QUALITY
                        specify video quality (DMC videos only)
  -s, --skip-media      skip downloading media

Module

import nndownload

url = "https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm35249846"
output_path = "/tmp/{id}.{ext}"
nndownload.execute("-g", "-o", output_path, url)

Custom Output Paths

Custom filepaths are constructed like standard Python template strings, e.g. {uploader} - {title}.{ext}. For Seiga manga, the output path should be the template for a chapter directory, e.g. {manga_id}\{id} - {title}. The available options are:

• comment_count
• description
• duration
• ext
• id
• mylist_count
• published
• quality
• size_high
• size_low
• thread_id
• thumbnail_url
• title
• uploader
• uploader_id
• url
• view_count
• audio_quality (DMC)
• video_quality (DMC)
• manga_id (Seiga, manga)
• manga_title (Seiga, manga)
• page_count (Seiga, manga)
• clip_count (Seiga, images)

Using Stream Links

After generating a stream URL, the program must be kept running to keep the stream active. mpv and streamlink are the best options for playing generated stream URLs. Other programs that use aggressive HLS caching and threading may also work.

For mpv:

mpv https://...

For streamlink, replace https with hls in the output stream URL:

streamlink "hls://..." best

Known Bugs

• Check open issues.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.