Download videos from Yle servers

Copyright (C) 2010-2016 Antti Ajanki, [email protected]

License: GPLv3

Homepage: http://aajanki.github.com/yle-dl/index-en.html

Source code: https://github.com/aajanki/yle-dl

yle-dl is a tool for downloading media files from the video streaming services of the Finnish national broadcasting company Yle: Yle Areena, Elävä Arkisto and Yle news.

Installation

1. Install the dependencies

• python (2.6 or newer)
• pycrypto
• PHP interpreter
• PHP extensions: bcmath, curl, mcrypt and SimpleXML

Optionally (for downloading Areena audio streams):

• rtmpdump (version 2.4 or newer, preferably the latest development version from the project homepage at http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/)

Enable the PHP extensions by appending the following lines with the correct paths in the [php.ini]: [php.ini]:https://secure.php.net/manual/en/configuration.file.php

extension=/path/to/curl.so
extension=/path/to/mcrypt.so

2. Install yle-dl

sudo make install

Installation on Debian/Ubuntu

1. Install the dependencies

sudo apt-get install rtmpdump python python-crypto php5-cli php5-curl php5-mcrypt
sudo php5enmod mcrypt

2. Install yle-dl

sudo make install

Installation on Mac OS X

1. Install the dependencies

Install the PHP interpreter and the other libraries:

brew install --HEAD rtmpdump
brew install homebrew/php/php55-mcrypt
pip install pycrypto

Enable the PHP extensions by appending the following lines with the correct paths in the [php.ini]: [php.ini]:https://secure.php.net/manual/en/configuration.file.php

extension=/path/to/curl.so
extension=/path/to/mcrypt.so

2. Install yle-dl

make install

Installation with youtube-dl as an alternative downloader backend

By default, yle-dl downloads streams from Yle Areena using the included copy of AdobeHDS.php. If the default downloader does not work for some reason, it is possible to use youtube-dl (for Python 2) instead. yle-dl will automatically fall back to youtube-dl if it is installed and downloading with AdobeHDS.php fails.

Follow the above installation instructions (except for the PHP and the PHP libraries) and additionally install youtube-dl:

• Debian/Ubuntu: apt-get install youtube-dl
• Mac OS X: brew install youtube-dl
• Other operating systems: pip install --upgrade youtube_dl

Uninstalling earlier versions

Starting from version 1.99.9, yle-dl doesn't anymore require a modified rtmpdump or plugin. Instead, everything is now downloadable with the plain rtmpdump. To remove the remnants of previous versions run make uninstall-old-rtmpdump.

Packages for various distros

A list of available packages

RPM packaging:

contrib/yle-dl.spec is a spec file for creating a RPM-package for Fedora.

Usage

yle-dl [options] URL

where URL is the address of the Areena or Elävä arkisto web page where you would normally watch the video in a browser.

yle-dl options:

• -o filename Save stream to the named file

• --latestepisode Download the latest episodes

• --showurl Print the URL of the stream, don't download

• --showtitle Print stream title, don't download

• --vfat Create Windows-compatible filenames

• --sublang lang Download subtitles, lang = fin, swe, smi, none or all

• --maxbitrate br Maximum bitrate stream to download, integer in kB/s or "best" or "worst". Not all streams support limited bitrates. Only approximate when downloading using AdobeHDS.php.

• --rtmpdump path Set path to rtmpdump binary

• --adobehds cmd Set command for executing AdobeHDS.php script

• --proxy uri Proxy for downloading stream manifests. Example: --proxy socks5://localhost:7777

• --destdir dir Save files to dir

• --pipe Dump stream to stdout for piping to media player. E.g. yle-dl --pipe URL | vlc -.

• --backend vals Downloaders that are tried until one of them succeeds (a comma-separated list). Possible values: adobehdsphp (download HDS streams using AdobeHDS.php), youtubedl (download HDS streams using youtube-dl).

• -V, --verbose Show verbose debug output

Type yle-dl --help to see the full list of options.

Any unrecognized options will be relayed to rtmpdump process (when downloading RTMP streams).

Firewall must allow outgoing traffic on ports 80 and 1935.

Examples

yle-dl http://areena.yle.fi/1-1544491 -o video.flv

yle-dl --backend youtubedl http://areena.yle.fi/1-1544491 -o video.flv

yle-dl http://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2010/10/28/studio-julmahuvi-roudasta-rospuuttoon

Playing in mplayer (or vlc and others) without downloading first:

yle-dl --pipe http://areena.yle.fi/1-2409251 | mplayer -cache 1024 -