animethemes-dl 1.0.0

Downloads anime themes from theme.moe using an animethemes-api. Supports Batch download and MAL connecting.

animethemes-dl

Download anime themes with myanimelist.

what's this project

This project allows you to automaticaly download opening and ending songs from all of your favorite anime without the need of downoading everything yourself. Since almost every weeb uses MAL to track the anime he's watching, this tool is really useful, as every information you need to give it has been written down already. All you need to do is to enter your MAL or AniList username.

disclaimer

All videos are downloaded from animethemes.moe and originally belong to studios who made them. You are not allowed to distribute any videos downloaded, unless you have permission from the studios that made it and animethemes.moe. Note that owning and distributing the program itself is allowed.

how to install

• clone this repository or download it
• do pip install -r requirements.txt to install all required libraries
• install ffmpeg into the same folder or in PATH

usage

• make sure you have ffmpeg and python installed
• run python main.py -h for help
• run python main.py <username> <settings> to download your songs

guide

you may need to use python main.py instead of animethemes-dl

The most barebones download requires a username and a save folder. Username refferes to your MAL username, alternatively if you want to use AniList, you need to use --anilist. Save folders can be set by -a (audio) and -v (video).

animethemes-dl sadru -a "themes"
animethemes-dl sadru --anilist -v "anime oped"

Use --settings to get settings from a json file.

animethemes-dl --settings "settings.json"

If you want extra anime to be downloaded use --id. Ids passed must be MAL's anime id.

animethemes-dl --id 42364 31240

Set the audio format with --audio-format. Works only if converting locally

animethemes-dl --audio-format wav

You can do some filtering based on your animelist. either by status or by score/priority. All videos that you are currently watching and have completed are downloaded. You can add other statuses by using --on-hold, --dropped or --planned. Set the minimum score (range 0-10) with --minscore and minimum priority (Low,Medium,High) with --minpriority.

animethemes-dl --minscore 7 --minpriority High
animethemes-dl --dropped

Currently you can filter out all NSFW themes with --sfw and all themes with dialogue in them with --no-dialogue. There may be cases where there's no dialogue tag but it still has dialogue, that is because this theme happens to have important dialogue in them (complain to animethemes about this). If you don't want that use --no-spoilers.

animethemes-dl --sfw --no-dialogue --no-spoilers

When downloading, you can choose to not redownload songs that are already in the save folder with -r. If your download keeps missing some themes, you can use --retry-forever to force the download, this is currently highly unreliable. To fix problems with downloading you can use --local-convert which converts themes to audio with ffmpeg instead of having it converted and then downloaded. This is may be slow however, so you can use --try-both to try the chosen method, and then the other one.

animethemes-dl --local-convert --retry-forever
animethemes-dl --try-both

You can modify filenames by using --filename (look at filename naming for more info). If your system/player cannot read Japanese characters or emojis, use --ascii to remove them from the filename.

animethemes-dl --filename "%a-%t.%e" --ascii

Add coverart to mp3 files with --coverart. Uses ID3 COVER_ART (id 3) to do so. CURRENTLY DOESN'T WORK.

animethemes-dl --coverart

Set path to ffmpeg with --ffmpeg. Most bugs might come from ffmpeg not being 'trusted'. Try ./ffmpeg.

animethemes-dl --ffmpeg "../../utilities/ffmpeg"

You can choose which tags you preffer by using --preffered (look at preffered tags for more info).

animethemes-dl --preffered Lyrics Cen 60FPS

You can turn off printing with --quiet, turn off color with --no-color. Print all args with --print-settings for bugfixing.

animethemes-dl --quiet
animethemes-dl --no-color --print-settings

usage examples

These are some of the settings I (may) personally use.

animethemes-dl sadru -a "anime themes"
animethemes-dl sadru -a "anime themes" --minscore 5 -r -d --try-both --ffmpeg "./ffmpeg" --coverart --filename "%a%t.%e"
animethemes-dl sadru -a "anime themes" --anilist --minpriority Medium -r --audio-format ogg --sfw

filename naming

Filename are by the default named %A %t (%S).%e which returns for example: AppareRanman OP (I got it!).webm variables are:

%% = percent symbol ("%")
%a = short anime name (no spaces)
%A = long anime name (spaced)
%t = theme type [OP | ED]
%s = song name (underscored)
%S = song name (spaced)
%e = extension [webm | mp3]

preffered tags

You can value some tags over other by adding it to the preffered tags. They are valued by asigning points to them, like this: ['NC','BD','720'] will be: NC:3, BD:2, 720:1. By default more tags will be put higher. avalible tags:

Tag	Meaning
NC	No captions/no credits
Subbed	Video includes subtitles of dialogue
Lyrics	Video includes English lyrics as subtitles
Cen	Video is censored
Uncen	Video is uncensored from original broadcast
60FPS	Video is 60 frames per second
Trans	Part of the anime episode transitions into the video
BD	Video is sourced from a Blu-ray disc
420	420p
720	720p
1080	1080p

settings file

default settings look like:

{
    "username": "",
    "anilist": false,
    "audio": null,
    "video": null,
    "status": [1,2],
    "print_settings": false,
    "id":[],
    "minscore": 0,
    "minpriority": 0,
    "no_redownload": false,
    "no_dialogue": false,
    "sfw": false,
    "filename": "",
    "retry_forever": false,
    "audio_format": "mp3",
    "ascii": false,
    "coverart": false,
    "ffmpeg": "ffmpeg",
    "local_convert": false,
    "try_both": false,
    "preffered": [],
    "no_color": false,
    "quiet": true
}

how does it work?

This code grabs your animelist data, filters it based off your settings, puts it through an api and then downloads it

• get your anime data
  • pull data from MAL/AniList
  • pull data from animethemes
  • sort them based on status and mirrors
• download
  • filter out spoilers/NSFW
  • download song (and convert)

TODO

• code optimizations
• add track, artist and description metadata
• create setup.py
• add to pypi
• add progress to download
• add an option to delete files that would have been filtered out