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bandcamper

The most powerful Bandcamp downloader there is! If you can play a song on Bandcamp, bandcamper can download it for free ;).

Description

bandcamper is a Python-powered tool that tries its best to download albums and tracks from Bandcamp for free! It does that by trying these 3 methods:

1. If an item has a "free download" option (example), amazing! bandcamper will be able to download it in any format you'd like.
2. If an item has an "email download" option (example), amazing! bandcamper will use onesecmail to get a temporary email address and will be able to download the item in any format you'd like.
3. If an item is playable via Bandcamp (example), good! bandcamper will be able to download it in mp3-128 format.

Does Bandcamp allow this?

You can read Bandcamp's position here (I heard you can steal music on Bandcamp. What are you doing about this?).

Installation

Use pipx or pip to install bandcamper:

pipx install bandcamper

Usage

Call bandcamper through the command line:

Usage: bandcamper [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

Options:
  Input Options:
    -i, --input FILE              Download from URLs/artists subdomains listed
                                  on file. This option can be used multiple
                                  times
  Audio Options:
    -f, --format [aac-hi|aiff-lossless|alac|flac|mp3-128|mp3-320|mp3-v0|vorbis|wav]
                                  Preferred audio formats to download. This
                                  option can be used multiple times. Defaults
                                  to mp3-320.
    --fallback / --no-fallback    Download fallback mp3-128 audio file in case
                                  there are no other free downloads available
  Download Options:
    -d, --destination DIRECTORY   Base destination folder for downloaded
                                  files. Defaults to current folder
    -o, --output TEMPLATE         Output filename template. See the 'Output
                                  Template' section of the README for all the
                                  info
    --output-extra TEMPLATE       Output filename template for extra files.
                                  See the 'Extra Output Template' section of
                                  the README for all the info
  Request Options:
    --random-user-agent           Use random User-Agent for Bandcamp requests
    --http-proxy URL              Proxy to use for HTTP connections
    --https-proxy URL             Proxy to use for HTTPS connections
    --proxy URL                   Proxy to use for all connections. This
                                  option overrides --http-proxy and --https-
                                  proxy
    --force-https / --no-force-https
                                  Rewrite every URL to use HTTPS  [default:
                                  force-https]
  Output Options:
    -v, --verbose                 Run bandcamper with more verbose output
    -q, --quiet                   Completely disable output
    --colored / --no-colors       Use colored output  [default: colored]
  --config FILE                   Read option defaults from the specified JSON
                                  config file. Defaults to
                                  bandcamper_config.json
  -V, --version                   Show the version and exit.
  -h, --help                      Show this message and exit.

Output Template

The output template is a string that can contain special variables and will be joined to the destination directory to determine the final path of the downloaded tracks.

This template follows the Python string formatting scheme of {var} and is, by default, "{artist}/{album}/{track_num:02d} - {track}.{ext}". You can change the template through the -o/--output flag.

These are the available variables you can use in the template:

Extra Output Template

Some Bandcamp downloads come with extra files other than the tracks, like the cover art image. These files will not follow the output template, since they are not tracks.

Instead, they follow the extra output template, which can be passed through the --output-extra parameter and by default is "{artist}/{album}/{filename}".

These are the available variables you can use in the template:

Examples

Download all releases from the band stippling:

bandcamper stippling

Download album stippling - Perfect Life in flac format:

bandcamper -f flac "https://stippling.bandcamp.com/album/perfect-life"

Results:

stippling
└── Perfect Life
   ├── 01 - My Friend Dead.flac
   ├── 02 - Oh My God.flac
   ├── 03 - Sunshine Kids.flac
   ├── 04 - Brights.flac
   ├── 05 - Monologue.flac
   ├── 06 - 2am.flac
   ├── 07 - Inner Dark.flac
   ├── 08 - Think of You.flac
   ├── 09 - Scared of Changing.flac
   ├── 10 - Ready Set Rock.flac
   ├── 11 - The Journal.flac
   ├── 12 - Letters to Ghosts.flac
   ├── 13 - Fake Smile.flac
   ├── 14 - Perfect Life.flac
   └── cover.jpg

Download album stippling - Perfect Life in flac and mp3-320 formats with custom output template:

bandcamper -f flac -f mp3-320 -o "{artist}/{album} ({year})/{ext}/{track_num:02d} - {track}.{ext}" --output-extra "{artist}/{album} ({year})/{filename}" "https://stippling.bandcamp.com/album/perfect-life"

Results:

stippling
└── Perfect Life (2018)
   ├── cover.jpg
   ├── flac
   │  ├── 01 - My Friend Dead.flac
   │  ├── 02 - Oh My God.flac
   │  ├── 03 - Sunshine Kids.flac
   │  ├── 04 - Brights.flac
   │  ├── 05 - Monologue.flac
   │  ├── 06 - 2am.flac
   │  ├── 07 - Inner Dark.flac
   │  ├── 08 - Think of You.flac
   │  ├── 09 - Scared of Changing.flac
   │  ├── 10 - Ready Set Rock.flac
   │  ├── 11 - The Journal.flac
   │  ├── 12 - Letters to Ghosts.flac
   │  ├── 13 - Fake Smile.flac
   │  └── 14 - Perfect Life.flac
   └── mp3
      ├── 01 - My Friend Dead.mp3
      ├── 02 - Oh My God.mp3
      ├── 03 - Sunshine Kids.mp3
      ├── 04 - Brights.mp3
      ├── 05 - Monologue.mp3
      ├── 06 - 2am.mp3
      ├── 07 - Inner Dark.mp3
      ├── 08 - Think of You.mp3
      ├── 09 - Scared of Changing.mp3
      ├── 10 - Ready Set Rock.mp3
      ├── 11 - The Journal.mp3
      ├── 12 - Letters to Ghosts.mp3
      ├── 13 - Fake Smile.mp3
      └── 14 - Perfect Life.mp3

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome! We just released the alpha so right now our top priorities are refactoring and testing, but any contribution might be a good contribution :-). I also plan on replacing requests with httpx soon.

In order to start contributing with bandcamper's code, make sure you install the pre-commit hooks listed in the .pre-commit-config.yaml file with the following commands:

pip install -r requirements_dev.txt
pre-commit install

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.