Download videos from avgle.com

avgle-download.sh

#!/bin/sh

if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
    echo Usage: avgle-download.sh video_title url_of_last_segment
    exit 1
fi

# Visit a video page, open the network tab of the dev tools,
# seek to the end of the video and copy the url of the last .ts segment
# (the .m3u8 playlist is encoded and therefore harder to get).

curl --remote-name --output-dir /tmp --referer https://avgle.com $(echo $2 | sed -E 's/seg-([0-9]*)/seg-[1-\1]/') &&
ffmpeg -i concat:$(ls -tr /tmp/*.ts | paste -sd '|') -c copy "$1.mp4" &&
rm /tmp/*.ts

This is a shell script for Unix-like systems, so if you use Windows you have to run it in Windows Subsystem for Linux. You need to download it, make it executable from a terminal with chmod +x /path/to/avgle-download.sh, then run it with /path/to/avgle-download.sh 'your video filename' https://last_segment_url.ts.

Unbelievable, its still works! Thanks for making this script..

I also cannot believe how small the code is.

The javascript downloader didn't work for me, so I guess this is an example of simple code working better. ;)

This could be even smaller and avoid the temporary files by using the ts urls directly with ffmpeg's concat protocol or demuxer, but unfortunately in that case FFmpeg ignores the -referer option which is necessary for downloading from avgle (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54272901/cant-set-ffmpeg-header-when-using-file-for-input)

hi, Guidocella. thank you for this amazing simple sh.
but I have a question about curl cmd.

's/seg-([0-9])/seg-[1-\1]/'
[0-9]

Is regular expression right?

[1-\1]

Not a regular expression but telling curl to download seg-1.ts, seg-2.ts, seg-3.ts ...

Is that what I thought?
Thank you.

Yes, \1 is the backreference to the first capture group, which is the number of the last segment [0-9]*. So curl sees something https://foo/seg-[1-70].ts which it interprets as downloading everything from 1 to 70. This is documented at the very start of man curl.

not good at shell command. but author's code not working in my mac. if any one have the same issue my my code can help.

• save my code as run.sh
• put run.sh in some folder.ex: /Users/$YOUR_USER_NAME$/Downloads/tmp
• cd into the folder (as curl --output-dir not working in my mac)
• confirm you have already install ffmpeg, if not use brew install ffmpeg install it.
• first time run the shell need call chmod +x run.sh

#!/bin/sh

if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
    echo Usage: avgle-download.sh video_title url_of_last_segment
    exit 1
fi

# Visit a video page, open the network tab of the dev tools,
# seek to the end of the video and copy the url of the last .ts segment
# (the .m3u8 playlist is encoded and therefore harder to get).

curl --remote-name --referer https://avgle.com $(echo $2 | sed -E 's/seg-([0-9]*)/seg-[1-\1]/')

ls *.ts | sed 's/^\([^0-9]*\)\([0-9]*\)/\1 \2/' | sort -k2,2n | tr -d ' ' |
while read f; do
  echo "file '$f'" >> mylist.txt
done
ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i mylist.txt -c copy $1.mp4
rm mylist.txt
rm *.ts