Downloads Japanese media (anime, films, drama) from free sources with Japanese and English subtitles for use with Voracious. Hence, this tool is only of any use for those studying Japanese.
Note: As I'm very busy studying Japanese any help adding support for additional sources or ticking off any of the todo items would be much appreciated!
- Windows Subsystem for Linux with PHP and Composer installed.
- Java for Selenium
- Chrome
Clone this repo to a suitable directory and ensure the defined composer dependencies are installed by running Composer's install command.
Open resources/chromedriver.exe, open resources/start-selenium.bat, open a CLI and run php animedl.php [source-website.com] for a listing of all available media or php animedl.php [source-website.com] ["Media Name in Romaji"] to download media with Japanese and English (if available) subtitles.
Run without any arguments to display all available sources:
php animedl.php
Search a list of available media with grep:
php animedl.php animejpnsub.ezyro.com | grep -i "nihonjin"
Download a title with English and Japanese subtitles ready for Voracious:
php animedl.php animejpnsub.ezyro.com "Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo"
- animejpnsub.ezyro.com
- Add more sources (e.g. daiweeb.org/terakoya, animelon.com, anjsub.com)
- Make anime-dl start chrome driver and selenium if not already running
- Hide Chrome (prevent Chrome from popping up when downloading webpages)
- Rename project as 'anime-dl' doesn't really convey the project's intentions
- Mac support
- Linux support