crunchyrollDownloader

What is this?

Crunchyroll is an American distributor, publisher, licensing company and international online community focused on video streaming East Asian media including anime, manga, drama, music, electronic entertainment, and content. definition from wikipedia.

This script downloads anime videos from Crunchyroll using youtube-dl.

Requirements:

1. Any Linux distribution. Other unix systems untested but should work.
2. youtube-dl installed.
3. A Crunchyroll account. You can use a free account but this will only allow downloads up to 480p and premium episodes won't work.
4. A working brain.

How does it work?

First things first, clone this repository. You can do that from GitHub web interface or with the command: git clone https://github.com/r33int/crunchyrollDownloader.git

Make the script executable using: chmod +x crunchyroll-dl.sh

Finally, execute it and follow the instructions. ./crunchyroll-dl.sh

About cookies

To authentificate to Crunchyroll, you will need a cookies.txt file. To extract this file, download this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookiestxt/njabckikapfpffapmjgojcnbfjonfjfg?hl=fr

Once installed, go to crunchyroll.com, login if that's not already done (don't forget to tick "Stay logged in"), then click on the extensions's icon, and click download.

Finally, your cookies.txt file is ready. For convenience, I recommend putting this file in the folder where the script is.