anime-downloader 4.5.0

Download your favourite anime

A simple yet powerful tool for downloading anime.

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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.
• Have a locally stored anime list to track your progress and stream anime using the watch command.
• Specify the quality you want to stream or download.
• Search and download.
• Save yourselves from those malicious ads.
• Download using external downloader (aria2 recommended).
• Configurable using config.json. See documentation.

Supported Operating Systems:

• Windows
• Mac OS
• Linux
• Android
• iOS (requires Jailbreak and some tinkering)
  • Instructions for Mobile Operating Systems can be found in the Installation Documentation Page

Supported Sites

Details about the sites can be found in FAQ

• 4Anime
• 9Anime
• a2zanime
• Anistream
• AnimeOnline360
• Animeflix
• Animefreak
• animeout
• Animeflv
• AnimeKisa
• Animesimple
• Animerush
• Animedaisuki
• Animixplay
• Animepahe - requires Node.js
• Animevibe
• Darkanime
• DreamAnime
• Erai-Raws
• Gogoanime
• GurminderBoparai (AnimeChameleon)
• HorribleSubs
• itsaturday
• Justdubs
• Kickassanime
• Kissanimefree
• Kissanime - requires Selenium
• Kisscartoon - requires Selenium
• Nyaa.si
• RyuAnime
• twist.moe - requires Node.js
• Watchmovie
• Yify
• Vostfree
• Voiranime
• Vidstream

Sites that require Selenium DO NOT and WILL NOT work on mobile operating systems

Twist.moe DOES NOT work and WILL NOT work on iOS, a specific Python module that is required for twist.moe is not supported on iOS and cannot be installed.

Installation

Installation instructions*

If you have trouble installing, see extended installation instructions here or join the discord server for help.

Note:

• For Cloudflare scraping either cfscrape or selenium is used. Cfscrape depends on node-js and selenium utilizes an automated invisible instance of a browser (chrome/firefox). So, if you want to use Cloudflare enabled sites, make sure you have node-js and a webdriver installed.
• You might have to use pip3 depending on your system

Usage

See docs.

Anime Downloader has two sub-commands, dl and watch.

• dl: dl can download anime.
• watch: watch can manage your anime watch list. Needs mpv. Deprecated in favour of adl

To use anime_downloader in your package:

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

Development Instructions:

See development instructions.

Related Projects

• adl - a command-line tool for watching anime that makes use of anime-downloader.
• Cloudstream - mobile gui for pirating anime and movies.

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