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The most powerful Bandcamp downloader there is! If you can play a song on Bandcamp, bandcamper can download it for free ;).
bandcamper is a Python-powered tool that tries its best to download albums and tracks from Bandcamp for free! It does that by trying these 3 methods:
- If an item has a "free download" option (example), amazing! bandcamper will be able to download it in any format you'd like.
- If an item has an "email download" option (example), amazing! bandcamper will use onesecmail to get a temporary email address and will be able to download the item in any format you'd like.
- If an item is playable via Bandcamp (example), good! bandcamper will be able to download it in mp3-128 format.
You can read Bandcamp's position here (I heard you can steal music on Bandcamp. What are you doing about this?).
Use pipx or pip to install bandcamper:
pipx install bandcamperCall bandcamper through the command line:
Usage: bandcamper [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]
Options:
Input Options:
-i, --input FILE Download from URLs/artists subdomains listed
on file. This option can be used multiple
times
Audio Options:
-f, --format [aac-hi|aiff-lossless|alac|flac|mp3-128|mp3-320|mp3-v0|vorbis|wav]
Preferred audio formats to download. This
option can be used multiple times. Defaults
to mp3-320.
--fallback / --no-fallback Download fallback mp3-128 audio file in case
there are no other free downloads available
Download Options:
-d, --destination DIRECTORY Base destination folder for downloaded
files. Defaults to current folder
-o, --output TEMPLATE Output filename template. See the 'Output
Template' section of the README for all the
info
--output-extra TEMPLATE Output filename template for extra files.
See the 'Extra Output Template' section of
the README for all the info
Request Options:
--random-user-agent Use random User-Agent for Bandcamp requests
--http-proxy URL Proxy to use for HTTP connections
--https-proxy URL Proxy to use for HTTPS connections
--proxy URL Proxy to use for all connections. This
option overrides --http-proxy and --https-
proxy
--force-https / --no-force-https
Rewrite every URL to use HTTPS [default:
force-https]
Output Options:
-v, --verbose Run bandcamper with more verbose output
-q, --quiet Completely disable output
--colored / --no-colors Use colored output [default: colored]
--config FILE Read option defaults from the specified JSON
config file. Defaults to
bandcamper_config.json
-V, --version Show the version and exit.
-h, --help Show this message and exit.
The output template is a string that can contain special variables and will be joined to the destination directory to determine the final path of the downloaded tracks.
This template follows the Python string formatting scheme of {var} and is, by default, "{artist}/{album}/{track_num:02d} - {track}.{ext}". You can change the template through the -o/--output flag.
Two output operators are implemented; u and l which format the variable to all upper-case or all lower-case respectively. These are used with {var:format} where format is either of the format characters.
These are the available variables you can use in the template:
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
| album | The album's title |
| artist | The artist's name |
| ext | The track's file extension |
| track | The track's title |
| track_num | The track number |
| year | The album's release year |
Some Bandcamp downloads come with extra files other than the tracks, like the cover art image. These files will not follow the output template, since they are not tracks.
Instead, they follow the extra output template, which can be passed through the --output-extra parameter and by default is "{artist}/{album}/{filename}".
These are the available variables you can use in the template:
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
| album | The album's title |
| artist | The artist's name |
| filename | The name of the file |
| year | The album's release year |
Download all releases from the band stippling:
bandcamper stippling
Download album stippling - Perfect Life in flac format:
bandcamper -f flac "https://stippling.bandcamp.com/album/perfect-life"
Results:
stippling
└── Perfect Life
├── 01 - My Friend Dead.flac
├── 02 - Oh My God.flac
├── 03 - Sunshine Kids.flac
├── 04 - Brights.flac
├── 05 - Monologue.flac
├── 06 - 2am.flac
├── 07 - Inner Dark.flac
├── 08 - Think of You.flac
├── 09 - Scared of Changing.flac
├── 10 - Ready Set Rock.flac
├── 11 - The Journal.flac
├── 12 - Letters to Ghosts.flac
├── 13 - Fake Smile.flac
├── 14 - Perfect Life.flac
└── cover.jpg
Download album stippling - Perfect Life in flac and mp3-320 formats with custom output template:
bandcamper -f flac -f mp3-320 -o "{artist}/{album} ({year})/{ext}/{track_num:02d} - {track}.{ext}" --output-extra "{artist}/{album} ({year})/{filename}" "https://stippling.bandcamp.com/album/perfect-life"
Results:
stippling
└── Perfect Life (2018)
├── cover.jpg
├── flac
│ ├── 01 - My Friend Dead.flac
│ ├── 02 - Oh My God.flac
│ ├── 03 - Sunshine Kids.flac
│ ├── 04 - Brights.flac
│ ├── 05 - Monologue.flac
│ ├── 06 - 2am.flac
│ ├── 07 - Inner Dark.flac
│ ├── 08 - Think of You.flac
│ ├── 09 - Scared of Changing.flac
│ ├── 10 - Ready Set Rock.flac
│ ├── 11 - The Journal.flac
│ ├── 12 - Letters to Ghosts.flac
│ ├── 13 - Fake Smile.flac
│ └── 14 - Perfect Life.flac
└── mp3
├── 01 - My Friend Dead.mp3
├── 02 - Oh My God.mp3
├── 03 - Sunshine Kids.mp3
├── 04 - Brights.mp3
├── 05 - Monologue.mp3
├── 06 - 2am.mp3
├── 07 - Inner Dark.mp3
├── 08 - Think of You.mp3
├── 09 - Scared of Changing.mp3
├── 10 - Ready Set Rock.mp3
├── 11 - The Journal.mp3
├── 12 - Letters to Ghosts.mp3
├── 13 - Fake Smile.mp3
└── 14 - Perfect Life.mp3
Pull requests are welcome! We just released the alpha so right now our top priorities are refactoring and testing, but any contribution might be a good contribution :-). I also plan on replacing requests with httpx soon.
In order to start contributing with bandcamper's code, make sure you install the pre-commit hooks listed in the .pre-commit-config.yaml file with the following commands:
pip install -r requirements_dev.txt
pre-commit installThis project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
