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The only thing I really don't like about Bandcamp is their lack of an API and the consequent difficulty of automatically downloading purchased albums.

nowahe 4y ago
Having bought a few artist compilation on it, after clicking 5 links manually I resorted to writing a script to parse the webpage and get the links there. But what's even worse is that their CDN throttles your IP after ~15 downloads and you have to wait 1-2 hours before you can download again (which I've already hit a few times, even while clicking on the links manually)
- throwanem 4y ago
  Thanks! That's good to know - I've already built out authentication in the Puppeteer-based sync tool I'm working on, but haven't yet got further, and it'll help a lot once I do to know to account for this. Granted, that means still a third step to orchestrate - auth ending in cookie capture, then album list fetch and reconciliation, and finally (on the other end of some queue) album downloading. Thank goodness they didn't make it too simple, I guess - I'd have hated for their annoyingly inconsistent login captcha to have been the last arbitrary challenge I had to overcome. (I can't fairly give them too hard a time, I suppose - they're doing an incredible amount with a tiny team and in that context even having pulled their public API is reasonable, however much I wish they hadn't. Just that it'd be nice if they had the scope for dealing with use cases that aren't the adversarial mirroring they've clearly optimized against...)
- samstave 4y ago
  CRON the DL?
ascagnel_ 4y ago
youtube-dl (and yt-dlp) supports downloading from Bandcamp, but I'm not sure if it supports downloading anything other than the publicly-available low-quality MP3s. This[1] Reddit post seems like it may work if you capture your login cookie. [1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/lge576/using_cookiestxt_with_bandcamp/ https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/lge576/using_coo...
- throwanem 4y ago
  Yeah, I wasn't able to find any way for yt-dlp to download the HQ zipfiles either.

nowahe 4y ago

Having bought a few artist compilation on it, after clicking 5 links manually I resorted to writing a script to parse the webpage and get the links there. But what's even worse is that their CDN throttles your IP after ~15 downloads and you have to wait 1-2 hours before you can download again (which I've already hit a few times, even while clicking on the links manually)

throwanem 4y ago
Thanks! That's good to know - I've already built out authentication in the Puppeteer-based sync tool I'm working on, but haven't yet got further, and it'll help a lot once I do to know to account for this. Granted, that means still a third step to orchestrate - auth ending in cookie capture, then album list fetch and reconciliation, and finally (on the other end of some queue) album downloading. Thank goodness they didn't make it too simple, I guess - I'd have hated for their annoyingly inconsistent login captcha to have been the last arbitrary challenge I had to overcome. (I can't fairly give them too hard a time, I suppose - they're doing an incredible amount with a tiny team and in that context even having pulled their public API is reasonable, however much I wish they hadn't. Just that it'd be nice if they had the scope for dealing with use cases that aren't the adversarial mirroring they've clearly optimized against...)
samstave 4y ago
CRON the DL?

ascagnel_ 4y ago

youtube-dl (and yt-dlp) supports downloading from Bandcamp, but I'm not sure if it supports downloading anything other than the publicly-available low-quality MP3s. This[1] Reddit post seems like it may work if you capture your login cookie. [1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/lge576/using_cookiestxt_with_bandcamp/ https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/lge576/using_coo...

throwanem 4y ago
Yeah, I wasn't able to find any way for yt-dlp to download the HQ zipfiles either.