ard-mediathek

Deprecated! This does no longer work!

The German public TV station "ARD" has a nice mediathek (video on demand) where they offer all their movies/documentations and so on. Sadly they delete or at least take them offline after 7 days.

There is no official way for downloading the videos.

Therefore bouni has written ard-mediathek.py, a simple commandline python script for downloading the videos. It was extended by dotcs.

Installation

pipenv install 

Usage

pipenv run python ard-mediathek.py "<url>" [--filename FILENAME]

• Go to the ARD mediathek and open the page with the video you want to download.
• Copy the URL from your browser, for example (http://mediathek.daserste.de/sendungen_a-z/799280_reportage-dokumentation/15880804_unser-wirtschaftswunder-die-wahre-geschichte)
• Run the script as shown above
• You can optionally pass a target filename as second parameter (otherwise video.mp4 is used as the default filename)
• if you set the parameter --derivefilename, the script will set the filename to the title of the URL which contains the video
• Wait for the download to complete :-)

You can get also a quick overview by calling

./ard-mediathek.py --help