This is a Python script to download HD trailers from the Apple Trailers website. It uses the "Just Added" JSON file that is also used by the web interface to find new trailers, and keeps track of the ones it has already downloaded so they aren't re-downloaded.
To download all the "Just Added" trailers in 720p into the script directory, run:
$ python download_trailers.py
You can also download a specific trailer by passing the URL of the trailer's
page on the Apple Trailers site with the -u parameter. For example:
$ python download_trailers.py -u "http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/thehungergames/"
You can customize several settings either with command-line
options or with a config file. To see all available command-line options,
run the script with the --help switch.
$ python download_trailers.py --help
You can also put settings in a config file. An example settings file,
settings-example.cfg is included with the script. By default, the script
first looks for a settings.cfg file in its directory, and if it doesn't find
one there, it looks for a file .trailers.cfg in the user's home directory.
Whichever one it finds first will be used as the configuration file. You can
copy settings-example.cfg to either settings.cfg or .trailers.cfg and
customize the values in it. Alternatively, you can use the --config option
to specify a path to a config file.
If a setting is specified in both the config file and a command-line option, the command-line setting will override the setting in the config file.
The script stores a list of files it has already downloaded in in a text
file. Any trailer file listed in the download list will not be re-downloaded,
even if the trailer file has already been deleted. This allows you to delete
trailers after you've watched them, but still run the script on a regular
basis and only download trailers you've never seen before. By default the
script stores the download list in the file download_list.txt in the
download directory, but you can change the file location with the
--listfile command-line option or with the list_file option in the
config file.
This code is free software licensed under the GPL v3. See the COPYING file for details.