coub-dl-liked

Download your liked videos from coub.com.

Program downloads mp3, mp4 files and combines them together using ffmpeg. All videos will be looped to the length of an audio file. Pages with an info about your liked videos will be saved to json dump: likes.json, any future runs will use that instead of an API. In case of multiple sequential runs, it doesn't re-download already downloaded videos, comparison based on filenames only.

How to use it

Install python

Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Install ffmpeg programm (Windows detailed instruction)

Go to https://coub.com/api/v2/users/me and find your api_token: a long sequence of characters, copy it

Now you're ready to download your sweet COUB's:

Windows:

cd coub-dl-liked
set API_TOKEN=your_long_token
# you could set audio and video quality preference
# set VIDEO_QUALITY=high     available values: higher, high, med; default - high
# set AUDIO_QUALITY=high     available values: high, med; default - high
python .\download_liked_coubs.py

Linux&MAC:

cd coub-dl-liked
API_TOKEN=your_long_token VIDEO_QUALITY=high AUDIO_QUALITY=high python ./download_liked_coubs.py

All video loops would be downloaded to /videos directory.

Disk usage estimation: 1000 higher quality videos ~38 GB

Tested on Windows 10, Ubuntu 20.04, python 3.10.3