Monstercat Gold mass downloader

monstercat_gold_downloader.ps1

# use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies-txt/ for making cookies.txt
# downloading as zip is broken at the time of writing, therefore per-track downloading is used.
# getting tracks for all releases is also broken at the time, so releases without catalog id
# are still downloaded as zips because you can get zips without the track ids or catalog id.

$format = "flac";

$args = @{
    skip=0
    limit=50
};

$api = "https://connect.monstercat.com/v2/";

$first = Invoke-RestMethod ($api + "releases") -Method Get -Body $args;

$total = ($first.total + 1) / 50;

$r = $first.results;

For ($i = 1; $i -lt $total; $i += 1) {
    $args["skip"] = $i * 50;
    $r += (Invoke-RestMethod ($api + "releases") -Method Get -Body $args).results;
}

$links = ($r | % {
    If ($_.catalogID -eq "") {
        $api + "release/" + $_.id + "/download?format=" + $format;
    } Else {
        $curr = Invoke-RestMethod ($api + "catalog/release/" + $_.catalogID)
        $curr.tracks | % {
            $api + "release/" + $curr.release.id + "/track-download/" + $_.id + "?format=" + $format
        }
    }
} | Sort-Object | Get-Unique)

$links > links.txt

.\aria2c --load-cookies=cookies.txt --input-file=links.txt --retry-wait=5