bandcamp-archiver

Cli tool to archive Bandcamp albums

Installation

Clone this repo, in root directory run:

bandcamp-archiver --url album_url --destination ./downloads

Example:

bandcamp-archiver --url https://padsbanger.bandcamp.com/album/eleventh-dimension --destination ./downloads

Destination is optional, defaults to current working directory.

Limitations

• Only mp3 128kbps quality is supported, no lossless formats
• Only public albums are supported, no private/shared links
• Progress bars are sometimes broken, thats because Bandcamp sometimes blocks HEAD requests, causing wrong content length to be reported

Legality

This tools uses Bandcamp Player html/js to look for audio files, which are publicly available on the album page anyway.

Apperantly Bandcamp is aware of this and doesnt care about patching it: https://bandcamp.com/help/audio_basics#steal

I am not a lawyer, but downloading copyrighted material without permission is probably illegal in your country. Use this tool at your own risk.

Always support the artists you like by buying their music!

TODO

• Create scrapper struct
• Create album struct
• Create song struct
• Get Bandcamp schema and deserialize response into structs
• Download whole album into a directory
• Add destination folder option
• Download using threads
• Download whole artist discography
• Implement some kind of CLI UI Interface with progress bars