nrkripper: Rip your favourite shows on nrk with ease.

nrkripper.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

"""nrkripper: Rip your favourite shows on nrk with ease."""
__author__ = "Alexander H."
__license__ = "GPLv3"

from urllib import request
from json import loads
from sys import argv, exit
from re import search
from subprocess import run

def getPlaylistInfo(vidid):
    api_url = 'https://psapi-we.nrk.no/mediaelement/{0}'.format(vidid)
    r_headers = {
        'accept': 'application/vnd.nrk.psapi+json;version=9;ludo-client=true;psapi=snapshot',
        'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64)' }
    req = request.Request(api_url, headers=r_headers)
    with request.urlopen(req) as resp:
        resp = loads(resp.read().decode('utf-8'))
        title = resp['title'].lower().replace(' ', '-').replace('"', '').replace(':','-')
        ga = resp['statistics']['ga']
        if ga:
            day, month, year = ga['dimension5'], ga['dimension4'], ga['dimension3']
            title += '_{0}-{1}-{2}'.format(year, month, day)
        m3u8 = search('^(.*?)m3u8', resp['playable']['parts'][0]['assets'][0]['url']).group(0)
        return(m3u8, title)

if len(argv) is 2:
    video_id = str(argv[1])
    playlist, title = getPlaylistInfo(video_id)
    print(title)
    ffm = 'ffmpeg -i {0} -c copy {1}.mp4'.format(playlist, title)
    run(ffm, shell=True)
else:
    print('missing video id, try again')
    exit(1)