nexxai / bandcamp-downloader

Download your bandcamp collection using this python script.

bandcamp-downloader

Download your Bandcamp collection using this python script.

It requires you to have a browser with a logged in session of bandcamp open. Cookies from the browser will be used to authenticate with Bandcamp.

Supported browsers are the same as in browser_cookie3: Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Brave, Opera, and Edge

Albums will be downloaded into their zip files and singles will just be plain files. Downloads are organized by Artist name. Downloads will happen in parallel, by default using a pool of 5 threads. Already existing files of the same name will have their file sizes checked against what it should be, and if they are the same, the download will be skipped, otherwise it will be over-written.

Be default, files are downloaded in mp3-320 format, but that can be changed with the --format/-f flag.

Requirements

• Python3
• BeautifulSoup 4 pip install bs4
• requests pip install requests
• browser_cookie3 pip install browser-cookie3
• TQDM pip install tqdm

Usage

usage: bandcamp-downloader.py [-h]
                              [--browser {firefox,chrome,chromium,brave,opera,edge}]
                              [--directory DIRECTORY]
                              [--format {aac-hi,aiff-lossless,alac,flac,mp3-320,mp3-v0,vorbis,wav}]
                              [--parallel-downloads PARALLEL_DOWNLOADS]
                              [--verbose]
                              username

Download your collection from bandcamp. Requires a logged in session in a
supported browser so that the browser cookies can be used to authenticate with
bandcamp. Albums are saved into directories named after their artist. Already
existing albums will have their file size compared to what is expected and re-
downloaded if the sizes differ. Otherwise already existing albums will not be
re-downloaded.

positional arguments:
  username              Your bandcamp username

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --browser {firefox,chrome,chromium,brave,opera,edge}, -b {firefox,chrome,chromium,brave,opera,edge}
                        The browser whose cookies to use for accessing
                        bandcamp. Defaults to "firefox"
  --directory DIRECTORY, -d DIRECTORY
                        The directory to download albums to. Defaults to the
                        current directory.
  --format {aac-hi,aiff-lossless,alac,flac,mp3-320,mp3-v0,vorbis,wav}, -f {aac-hi,aiff-lossless,alac,flac,mp3-320,mp3-v0,vorbis,wav}
                        What format do download the songs in. Default is
                        'mp3-320'.
  --parallel-downloads PARALLEL_DOWNLOADS, -p PARALLEL_DOWNLOADS
                        How many threads to use for parallel downloads. Set to
                        '1' to disable parallelism. Default is 5. Must be
                        between 1 and 32
  --verbose, -v

Notes

If things are not working correctly, but are also not spitting out errors, try setting -p 1 to disable parallelism. If multi-threading is used, threads won't show crashes/stack traces.

If you have a logged in session in the browser, have used the --browser/-b flag correctly, and still are being told that the script isn't finding any albums, check out the page for browser_cookie3, you might need to do some configuring in your browser to make the cookies available to the script.

If you are downloading your collection in multiple formats, the script can't tell if an already downloaded zip file is the same format or not, and will happily overwrite it. So make sure to use different directories for different formats, either by running the script somewhere else or by supplying directories to the --directory/-d flag.

TODO

• Allow filtering by artist?