mediathekDownloader 0.1

Downloads series and movies from German public media libraries (Öffentlich-Rechtliche Sender) to your Synology NAS, for use with Synology Video Station.

mediathekDownloader

Summary

Downloads series and movies from German public media libraries (Öffentlich-Rechtliche Sender) to your Synology NAS, for use with Synology Video Station. It works from the command line and should be used from scripts.

How to use

Using the search string

• Go to https://mediathekviewweb.de and search for your download.

  Example: !ARD #Maus >10 to search for all episodes of "Die Sendung mit der Maus" at station "ARD" that are longer than 10 minutes (they provide a lot of short cuts for each episode, which is not really helpful if you want to retrieve an episode as broadcasted each Sunday morning).

Command line

$:>python -m mediathekDwnld -h
Usage: mediathekDwnld.py [OPTIONS] PATH

  The app allows to retrieve videos from German, Austrian and Suisse TV
  station media libraries ("Mediathek").  Central accesspoint to these
  resources is https://mediathekviewweb.de/. Either the search string used
  there or the provided RSS-feed passed to the script using options
  --search or --feed. Idea is to write the file to a Synology NAS with DS
  Video app installed. This is why a .vsmeta file is being  generated with
  the media, to feed Synology's indexer.

Options:
  -f, --feed TEXT         Specify either the feed URL (RSS) or the search
                          string from mediathekviewweb.

  -s, --search TEXT       Specify either the feed URL (RSS) or the search
                          string from mediathekviewweb.

  -p, --threads INTEGER   The app supports multithreading. How many threads
                          should be started?  [default: 1]

  -m, --maxfiles INTEGER  When collecting a search result, several larger
                          files might be downloaded. Here, specify max=0 to
                          download all, or the maximum number to download.
                          [default: 8]

  -v, --verbous           Print program output at lowest level.  [default:
                          False]

  -V, --veryverbous       Print program output at lowest level plus feed
                          items.  [default: False]

  -t, --test              Do not really download or write files.  [default:
                          False]

  -S, --series            First option to set the media type: use it when
                          downloading episodes of a series.

  -M, --movie             Second option to set the media type: use it when
                          downloading movies.

  -h, --help              Show this message and exit.

Example script

#!/bin/sh
#encoding: utf8 

#go to the work directory
cd /volumeX/[path]

#Download using the venv
bin/python3 cleanup-generic.py /volume1/video/Kinder/Löwenzahn "https://mediathekviewweb.de/feed?query=%23L%C3%B6wenzahn%20%20%3E20"

#Index neu aufbauen
/usr/syno/bin/synoindex -R /volume1/video/Kinder/Löwenzahn &
#/usr/syno/bin/synoindex -R /volume1/video/Kinder/Maus &
#/usr/syno/bin/synoindex -R /volume1/video/Kinder/MausSpezial/ &