Narr

Netflix Audio Ripper - Download audio tracks from Netflix to sample your favourite shows. :musical_note:

Usage

Close all browser instances and start Chrome, Brave or Edge from the terminal with enabled remote debugging :

 google-chrome --remote-debugging-port=9222
 brave-browser --remote-debugging-port=9222
./msedge.exe  --remote-debugging-port=9222

• Make sure that you are logged in on Netflix in the started browser.
• Navigate to the show you want to download the audio from.
• Copy the URL of the show.
• Run narr with the URL as argument.

narr "https://www.netflix.com/watch/12345678?trackId=12345678"

Observe the progress in the terminal:

2023/02/18 18:34:25 ▼ Downloading https://www.netflix.com/watch/81237996?trackId=14170056  ⟾  /home/looper/81237996-14170056-4037200794235010051
2023/02/18 18:34:35 ✓ Finished    https://www.netflix.com/watch/81237996?trackId=14170056  ⟾  /home/looper/81237996-14170056-4037200794235010051, got 65346400 bytes

You can navigate to any other show or episode or change the language of the audio track while narr is running. It will download the audio track of the currently playing episode.

2023/02/18 18:34:25 ▼ Downloading https://www.netflix.com/watch/81237996?trackId=14170056  ⟾  /home/looper/81237996-14170056-4037200794235010051
2023/02/18 18:34:35 ✓ Finished    https://www.netflix.com/watch/81237996?trackId=14170056  ⟾  /home/looper/81237996-14170056-4037200794235010051, got 65346400 bytes
2023/02/18 16:59:42 🗺Navigate to https://www.netflix.com/watch/81238005?trackId=14170056 
2023/02/18 16:59:43 ▼ Downloading https://www.netflix.com/watch/81238005?trackId=14170056  ⟾  /home/looper/81238005-14170056-605394647632969758
2023/02/18 16:59:53 ✓ Finished    https://www.netflix.com/watch/81238005?trackId=14170056  ⟾  /home/looper/81238005-14170056-605394647632969758, got 65346400 bytes

It is also possible to navigate to the Netflix home page. Narr will then download audio tracks of trailers or previews.

How it works

Narr uses the Chrome DevTools Protocol to communicate with the browser. It intercepts the network requests and downloads the audio tracks in mp4 format. This is possible because the audio is not protected by DRM.

Build from source

Narr is written in Go. You can build it from source with the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/IljaN/narr.git
make build_all

This builds binaries for Linux, Windows and MacOS (amd64 + arm64) and places them in the bin directory.

Flags

narr --help
~/c/narr:λ ./narr --help
Usage: narr [--chrome-url CHROME-URL] VIDEOURL [DOWNLOADDIR]

Positional arguments:
  VIDEOURL               url of the video to download audio from. Must be a netflix url. e.g. https://www.netflix.com/watch/12345678?trackId=12345678
  DOWNLOADDIR            directory where to download the audio files. Defaults to current working directory.

Options:
  --chrome-url CHROME-URL, -c CHROME-URL
                         url of the chrome debugger. [default: http://127.0.0.1:9222]
  --help, -h             display this help and exit