DOCUMENTATION.md

multi-downloader-nx (5.1.5v)

If you find any bugs in this documentation or in the program itself please report it over on GitHub.

Legal Warning

This application is not endorsed by or affiliated with Crunchyroll, Hidive, AnimeOnegai, or AnimationDigitalNetwork. This application enables you to download videos for offline viewing which may be forbidden by law in your country. The usage of this application may also cause a violation of the Terms of Service between you and the stream provider. This tool is not responsible for your actions; please make an informed decision before using this application.

CLI Options

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• ${someText} shows that you should replace this text with your own
  • e.g. --username ${someText} -> --username Izuco

Authentication

--auth

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
All	--auth	boolean	No	NaN	NaN

Most of the shows on both services are only accessible if you payed for the service. In order for them to know who you are you are required to log in. If you trigger this command, you will be prompted for the username and password for the selected service

--username

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--username ${username}	string	No	NaN	undefined	username:

Set the username to use for the authentication. If not provided, you will be prompted for the input

--password

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--password ${password}	string	No	NaN	undefined	password:

Set the password to use for the authentication. If not provided, you will be prompted for the input

--silentAuth

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll	--silentAuth	boolean	No	NaN	false	silentAuth:

Authenticate every time the script runs. Use at your own risk.

--token

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll, AnimeOnegai	--token ${token}	string	No	NaN	undefined	token:

Allows you to login with your token (Example on crunchy is Refresh Token/etp-rt cookie)

Fonts

--dlFonts

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll	--dlFonts	boolean	No	NaN	NaN

Crunchyroll uses a variaty of fonts for the subtitles. Use this command to download all the fonts and add them to the muxed mkv file.

--fontName

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
Hidive, AnimationDigitalNetwork	--fontName ${fontName}	string	No	NaN	NaN

Set the font to use in subtiles

Search

--search

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
All	--search ${search}	string	No	-f	NaN

Search of an anime by the given string

--search-type

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Choices	Default	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll	--search-type ${type}	string	No	NaN	['', top_results, series, movie_listing, episode]	``	search-type:

Search only for type of anime listings (e.g. episodes, series)

--page

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll, Hidive	--page ${page}	number	No	-p	NaN

The output is organized in pages. Use this command to output the items for the given page

--locale

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Choices	Default	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll, AnimeOnegai, AnimationDigitalNetwork	--locale ${locale}	string	No	NaN	['', en-US, en-IN, es-LA, es-419, es-ES, pt-BR, pt-PT, fr-FR, de-DE, ar-ME, ar-SA, it-IT, ru-RU, tr-TR, hi-IN, zh-CN, zh-TW, zh-HK, ko-KR, ca-ES, pl-PL, th-TH, ta-IN, ms-MY, vi-VN, id-ID, te-IN, fr, de, '', es, pt]	en-US	locale:

Set the local that will be used for the API.

--new

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll, Hidive	--new	boolean	No	NaN	NaN

Get last updated series list

Downloading

--movie-listing

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll	--movie-listing ${ID}	string	No	--flm	NaN

Get video list by Movie Listing ID

--series

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll	--series ${ID}	string	No	--srz	NaN

Requested is the ID of a show not a season.

-s

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
All	-s ${ID}	string	No	NaN	NaN

Used to set the season ID to download from

-e

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
All	-e ${selection}	string	No	--episode	NaN

Set the episode(s) to download from any given show. For multiple selection: 1-4 OR 1,2,3,4 For special episodes: S1-4 OR S1,S2,S3,S4 where S is the special letter

--extid

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll	--extid ${selection}	string	No	--externalid	NaN

Set the external id to lookup/download. Allows you to download or view legacy Crunchyroll Ids

-q

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	-q ${qualityLevel}	number	No	NaN	0	q:

Set the quality level. Use 0 to use the maximum quality.

--dlVideoOnce

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll, AnimeOnegai	--dlVideoOnce	boolean	No	NaN	false	dlVideoOnce:

If selected, the best selected quality will be downloaded only for the first language, then the worst video quality with the same audio quality will be downloaded for every other language. By the later merge of the videos, no quality difference will be present. This will speed up the download speed, if multiple languages are selected.

--chapters

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll, AnimationDigitalNetwork	--chapters	boolean	No	NaN	true	chapters:

Will fetch the chapters and add them into the final video. Currently only works with mkvmerge.

--crapi

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Choices	Default	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll	--crapi	string	No	NaN	[android, web]	web	crapi:

If set to Android, it has lower quality, but Non-DRM streams, If set to Web, it has a higher quality adaptive stream, but everything is DRM.

--removeBumpers

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
Hidive	--removeBumpers	boolean	No	NaN	true	removeBumpers:

If selected, it will remove the bumpers such as the hidive intro from the final file. Currently disabling this sometimes results in bugs such as video/audio desync

--originalFontSize

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
Hidive	--originalFontSize	boolean	No	NaN	true	originalFontSize:

If selected, it will prefer to keep the original Font Size defined by the service.

-x

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Choices	Default	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll	-x ${server}	number	No	--server	[1, 2, 3, 4]	1	x:

Select the server to use

--kstream

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Choices	Default	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll	--kstream ${stream}	number	No	-k	[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]	1	kstream:

Select specific stream

--cstream

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Choices	Default	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll	--cstream ${device}	string	No	--cs	[chrome, firefox, safari, edge, fallback, ps4, ps5, switch, samsungtv, lgtv, rokutv, android, iphone, ipad, none]	chrome	cstream:

Select specific crunchy play stream by device, or disable stream with "none"

--hslang

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Choices	Default	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll	--hslang ${hslang}	string	No	NaN	[none, en, en-IN, es-419, es-ES, pt-BR, pt-PT, fr, de, ar, it, ru, tr, hi, zh, zh-CN, zh-TW, zh-HK, ko, ca-ES, pl-PL, th-TH, ta-IN, ms-MY, vi-VN, id-ID, te-IN, ja]	none	hslang:

Download video with specific hardsubs

--dlsubs

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Choices	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--dlsubs ${sub1} ${sub2}	array	No	NaN	[all, none, en, en-IN, es-419, es-ES, pt-BR, pt-PT, fr, de, ar, it, ru, tr, hi, zh, zh-CN, zh-TW, zh-HK, ko, ca-ES, pl-PL, th-TH, ta-IN, ms-MY, vi-VN, id-ID, te-IN, ja]	all	dlsubs:

Download subtitles by language tag (space-separated) Crunchy Only: en, en-IN, es-419, es-419, es-ES, pt-BR, pt-PT, fr, de, ar, ar, it, ru, tr, hi, zh-CN, zh-TW, zh-HK, ko, ca-ES, pl-PL, th-TH, ta-IN, ms-MY, vi-VN, id-ID, te-IN, ja

--novids

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
All	--novids	boolean	No	NaN	NaN

Skip downloading videos

--noaudio

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll, Hidive	--noaudio	boolean	No	NaN	NaN

Skip downloading audio

--nosubs

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
All	--nosubs	boolean	No	NaN	NaN

Skip downloading subtitles

--dubLang

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Choices	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--dubLang ${dub1} ${dub2}	array	No	NaN	[eng, spa, spa-419, spa-ES, por, fra, deu, ara-ME, ara, ita, rus, tur, hin, cmn, zho, chi, zh-HK, kor, cat, pol, tha, tam, may, vie, ind, tel, jpn]	jpn	dubLang:

Set the language to download: Crunchy Only: eng, eng, spa, spa-419, spa-ES, por, por, fra, deu, ara-ME, ara, ita, rus, tur, hin, zho, chi, zh-HK, kor, cat, pol, tha, tam, may, vie, ind, tel, jpn

--all

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--all	boolean	No	NaN	false	all:

Used to download all episodes from the show

--fontSize

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--fontSize ${fontSize}	number	No	NaN	55	fontSize:

When converting the subtitles to ass, this will change the font size In most cases, requires "--originaFontSize false" to take effect

--combineLines

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
Hidive	--combineLines	boolean	No	NaN	NaN

If selected, will prevent a line from shifting downwards

--allDubs

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
All	--allDubs	boolean	No	NaN	NaN

If selected, all available dubs will get downloaded

--timeout

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--timeout ${timeout}	number	No	NaN	15000	timeout:

Set the timeout of all download reqests. Set in millisecods

--waittime

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll, Hidive	--waittime ${waittime}	number	No	NaN	0	waittime:

Set the time the program waits between downloads. Set in millisecods

--simul

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
Hidive	--simul	boolean	No	NaN	false	simul:

Force downloading simulcast version instead of uncut version (if available).

--but

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
All	--but	boolean	No	NaN	NaN

Download everything but the -e selection

--downloadArchive

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
All	--downloadArchive	boolean	No	NaN	NaN

Used to download all archived shows

--addArchive

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
All	--addArchive	boolean	No	NaN	NaN

Used to add the -s and --srz to downloadArchive

--partsize

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--partsize ${amount}	number	No	NaN	10	partsize:

Set the amount of parts to download at once If you have a good connection try incresing this number to get a higher overall speed

--fsRetryTime

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--fsRetryTime ${time in seconds}	number	No	NaN	5	fsRetryTime:

Set the time the downloader waits before retrying if an error while writing the file occurs

--force

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Choices	cli-default Entry
All	--force ${option}	string	No	NaN	[y, Y, n, N, c, C]	NaN

If a file already exists, the tool will ask you how to proceed. With this, you can answer in advance.

Muxing

--mp4

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--mp4	boolean	No	NaN	false	mp4:

If selected, the output file will be an mp4 file (not recommended tho)

--keepAllVideos

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll, Hidive	--keepAllVideos	boolean	No	NaN	false	keepAllVideos:

If set to true, it will keep all videos in the merge process, rather than discarding the extra videos.

--syncTiming

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
Crunchyroll, Hidive	--syncTiming	boolean	No	NaN	false	syncTiming:

If enabled attempts to sync timing for multi-dub downloads. NOTE: This is currently experimental and syncs audio and subtitles, though subtitles has a lot of guesswork If you find bugs with this, please report it in the discord or github

--skipmux

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
All	--skipmux	boolean	No	NaN	NaN

Skip muxing video, audio and subtitles

--nocleanup

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--nocleanup	boolean	No	NaN	false	nocleanup:

Don't delete subtitle, audio and video files after muxing

--skipSubMux

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--skipSubMux	boolean	No	NaN	false	skipSubMux:

Skip muxing the subtitles

--forceMuxer

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Choices	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--forceMuxer ${muxer}	string	No	NaN	[ffmpeg, mkvmerge]	undefined	forceMuxer:

Force the program to use said muxer or don't mux if the given muxer is not present

--videoTitle

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
All	--videoTitle ${title}	string	No	NaN	NaN

Set the video track name of the merged file

--mkvmergeOptions

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--mkvmergeOptions ${args}	array	No	NaN	--no-date,--disable-track-statistics-tags,--engage no_variable_data	mkvmergeOptions:

Set the options given to mkvmerge

--ffmpegOptions

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--ffmpegOptions ${args}	array	No	NaN	``	ffmpegOptions:

Set the options given to ffmpeg

--defaultAudio

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--defaultAudio ${args}	string	No	NaN	eng	defaultAudio:

Set the default audio track by language code Possible Values: eng, eng, spa, spa-419, spa-ES, por, por, fra, deu, ara-ME, ara, ita, rus, tur, hin, cmn, zho, chi, zh-HK, kor, cat, pol, tha, tam, may, vie, ind, tel, jpn

--defaultSub

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--defaultSub ${args}	string	No	NaN	eng	defaultSub:

Set the default subtitle track by language code Possible Values: eng, eng, spa, spa-419, spa-ES, por, por, fra, deu, ara-ME, ara, ita, rus, tur, hin, cmn, zho, chi, zh-HK, kor, cat, pol, tha, tam, may, vie, ind, tel, jpn

Filename Template

--fileName

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--fileName ${fileName}	string	No	NaN	[${service}] ${showTitle} - S${season}E${episode} [${height}p]	fileName:

Set the filename template. Use ${variable_name} to insert variables. You can also create folders by inserting a path seperator in the filename You may use 'title', 'episode', 'showTitle', 'seriesTitle', 'season', 'width', 'height', 'service' as variables.

--numbers

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--numbers ${number}	number	No	NaN	2	numbers:

Set how long a number in the title should be at least. Set in config: 3; Episode number: 5; Output: 005 Set in config: 2; Episode number: 1; Output: 01 Set in config: 1; Episode number: 20; Output: 20

--override

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--override "${toOverride}='${value}'"	array	No	NaN	``	override:

Override a template variable

--ccTag

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--ccTag ${tag}	string	No	NaN	cc	ccTag:

Used to set the name for subtitles that contain tranlations for none verbal communication (e.g. signs)

Debug

--nosess

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--nosess	boolean	No	NaN	false	nosess:

Reset session cookie for testing purposes

--debug

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--debug	boolean	No	NaN	false	debug:

Debug mode (tokens may be revealed in the console output)

Utilities

--service

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Choices	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--service ${service}	string	Yes	NaN	[crunchy, hidive, ao, adn]	``	service:

Set the service you want to use

--update

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
All	--update	boolean	No	NaN	NaN

Force the tool to check for updates (code version only)

--skipUpdate

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	Default	cli-default Entry
All	--skipUpdate	boolean	No	NaN	false	skipUpdate:

If true, the tool won't check for updates

Help

--help

Service	Usage	Type	Required	Alias	cli-default Entry
All	--help	boolean	No	-h	NaN

Show the help output

GUI