Download videos from Yle servers

Copyright (C) 2010-2017 Antti Ajanki, [email protected]

License: GPLv3

Homepage: https://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
• ffmpeg
• 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 https://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/)

Enable the PHP extensions by appending the following lines with the correct paths in the php.ini:

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

Dependencies on Debian 9 (Stretch)/Ubuntu 16.04

sudo apt-get install rtmpdump python python-crypto php-cli php-curl php-mcrypt php-xml php-bcmath
sudo phpenmod mcrypt

Dependencies on Debian 8 (Jessie)/Ubuntu 15.10 or older

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

Dependencies on Mac OS X

Install the PHP interpreter and the other libraries:

brew install python
brew install --HEAD rtmpdump
brew install homebrew/php/php70-mcrypt

Edit the php.ini as instructed above.

2. Install yle-dl

Easier way (installation without downloading the source codes):

sudo pip install yle-dl

Installation from sources. Download the sources and run the following on the source directory:

sudo python setup.py 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:

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

Packages for various distros

A list of available packages

Usage

yle-dl [options] URL

or

yle-dl [options] -i filename

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

• -i filename Read input URLs to process from the named file, one URL per line

• --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

• --audiolang lang Select stream's audio language if available, lang = fin (default) or swe

• --sublang lang Download stream's subtitle language, lang = fin, swe, smi, none or all (default)

• --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

• --postprocess cmd Execute a command cmd after a successful download. The command is called with the downloaded FLV file as the first parameter and subtitle files (if any) as the following parameters.

• --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 https://areena.yle.fi/1-1544491 -o video.flv

yle-dl --backend youtubedl https://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 https://areena.yle.fi/1-2409251 | mplayer -cache 1024 -

Executing a script to postprocess a downloaded video (see the example postprocessing script at scripts/muxmp4):

yle-dl --postprocess scripts/muxmp4 https://areena.yle.fi/1-1864726