Login
Before you can do anything, you have to login first.
This can be performed via crunchyroll account email and password.
$ crunchy login user@example.com password
or via session id
$ crunchy login --session-id 8e9gs135defhga790dvrf2i0eris8gts
Note that this stores the credentials only temporary until the next reboot (on windows systems where the temp directory is not cleared it may stay forever ¯_(ツ)_/¯).
If you want to store it explicit persistent, use the --persistent flag while login.
Download
By default, the cli tries to download the episode with your system language as audio. If no streams with your system language are available, the video will be downloaded with japanese audio and hardsubbed subtitles in your system language. If your system language is not supported, an error message will be displayed and en-US (american english) will be chosen as language.
$ crunchy download https://www.crunchyroll.com/darling-in-the-franxx/episode-1-alone-and-lonesome-759575
With -r best the video(s) will have the best available resolution (mostly 1920x1080 / Full HD).
$ crunchy download -r best https://www.crunchyroll.com/darling-in-the-franxx/episode-1-alone-and-lonesome-759575
The file is by default saved as a .ts (mpeg transport stream) file.
.ts files may can't be played or are looking very weird (it depends on the video player you are using).
With the -o flag, you can change the name (and file ending) of the output file.
So if you want to save it as, for example, mp4 file, just name it whatever.mp4.
You need ffmpeg to store the video in other file formats.
$ crunchy download -o "daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarling.ts" https://www.crunchyroll.com/darling-in-the-franxx/episode-1-alone-and-lonesome-759575
With the --audio flag you can specify which audio the video should have and with --subtitle which subtitle it should have.
Type crunchy help download to see all available locales.
$ crunchy download --audio ja-JP --subtitle de-DE https://www.crunchyroll.com/darling-in-the-franxx
The following flags can be set to modify the command behavior:
| Short | Extended | Description |
|---|---|---|
-a |
--audio |
Forces audio of the video(s). |
-s |
--subtitle |
Forces subtitle of the video(s). |
-d |
--directory |
Directory to download the video(s) to. |
-o |
--output |
Name of the output file. |
-r |
--resolution |
The resolution of the video(s). best for best resolution, worst for worst. |
-g |
--goroutines |
Sets how many parallel segment downloads should be used. |
Archive
Archive is like Download but for data horders and those under us which want to store anime for archive reasons.
It downloads the given episode(s) into an .mkv file, including all subtitles and audios which can be set by the user by specifying locales with the -l flag.
Unlike Download, you must have ffmpeg installed in case to use this command.
Support for compression is also implemented. .tar.gz (gzip), .tar (tar) and .zip (zip) are currently supported.
To use compression, use the --compress flag and use a file name as argument.
The ending of the file sets the compression algorithm.
$ crunchy archive -l en-US -l de-DE https://www.crunchyroll.com/darling-in-the-franxx
To store all locales, use all as argument for -l.
If you're using --compress you can format the name: Every {series_name} in the string gets replaced with the actual series name from the episode(s) you're downloading.
If you want to sort the subtitles after the specified language (you've specified the first languages as en-US, so the first subtitle language will also be en-US, ...), set the environment variable SORT_SUBTITLES=1 before executing.
$ crunchy archive --compress "{series_name}.tar.gz" -l all https://www.crunchyroll.com/darling-in-the-franxx
NOTE: Because of local restrictions (or other reasons) some episodes with different languages does not have the same length (because some scenes were cut out, for example).
I originally planned to only download the japanese video and extracting the audios of episodes with other languages and adding them to the video stream.
But because of this length differences it is possible that the audios does not match to the video.
With the --merge flag you can change the behaviour if the described situation is the case: audio stores one video and only the audio of all other languages, video stores all videos of the given languages and their audio, auto (which is the default) only behaves like video if the length of two videos are different (and only for the two videos), else like audio.
The following flags can be set to modify the command behavior:
| Short | Extended | Description |
|---|---|---|
-l |
--language |
Audio locale which should be downloaded. Can be used multiple times. |
-d |
--directory |
Directory to download the video(s) to. |
-o |
--output |
Name of the output file. |
-m |
--merge |
Sets the behavior of the stream merging. Valid behaviors are 'auto', 'audio', 'video'. See the wiki for more information. |
-c |
--compress |
If is set, all output will be compresses into an archive. This flag sets the name of the compressed output file and the file ending specifies the compression algorithm (gzip, tar, zip are supported). |
-r |
--resolution |
The resolution of the video(s). best for best resolution, worst for worst. |
-g |
--goroutines |
Sets how many parallel segment downloads should be used. |
Format
The -o / --output and -d / --directory flags accept some patterns that get replaced with meta information about the episode which is currently downloaded.
| Pattern | Information |
|---|---|
{title} |
Title of the video. |
{series_name} |
Name of the series. |
{season_name} |
Name of the season. |
{season_number} |
Number of the season. |
{episode_number} |
Number of the episode. |
{resolution} |
Resolution of the video. |
{fps} |
Frame Rate of the video. |
{audio} |
Audio locale of the video. |
{subtitle} |
Subtitle locale of the video. |
Example:
$ crunchy download -o "S{season_number}E{episode_number} ({title}).ts" https://www.crunchyroll.com/darling-in-the-franxx/episode-1-alone-and-lonesome-759575
...
➞ Downloading episode `Alone and Lonesome` to `S1E1 (Alone and Lonesome).ts`
...
Filter
If you want to download only specific episode of a series, you could either pass every single episode url to the downloader (which is fine for 1 - 3 episodes) or use filtering.
It works pretty simple, just put a specific pattern surrounded by square brackets at the end of the url from the anime you want to download. A season and / or episode as well as a range from where to where episodes should be downloaded can be specified. Use the list below to get a better overview what is possible
...[E5]- Download the fifth episode....[S1]- Download the full first season....[-S2]- Download all seasons up to and including season 2....[S3E4-]- Download all episodes from and including season 3, episode 4....[S1E4-S3]- Download all episodes from and including season 1, episode 4, until and including season 3....[S3,S5]- Download episode 3 and 5....[S1-S3,S4E2-S4E6]- Download season 1 to 3 and episode 2 to episode 6 of season 4.
In practice, it would look like this: https://beta.crunchyroll.com/series/12345678/example[S1E5-S3E2].
The S, followed by the number indicates the season number, E, followed by the number indicates an episode number.
It doesn't matter if S, E or both are missing. Theoretically [-] is a valid pattern too.
Note that S must always stay before E when used.
There is also a regex available at regex101.com where you can test if your pattern is correct. Just put in your pattern into the big empty field and if the full pattern is highlighted this means it is valid. If none or only some parts are highlighted not.