any-dl --- a tool for download any mediafiles

Overview

The program is intended to download mediafiles from any mediathek. It's name is derived from tools like youtube-dl (downloads videos from youtube), arte-dl (downloads videos from ARTE-TV mediathek, zdf-dl (downloads videos from ZDF mediathek), dctp-dl and some other tools. Because this tool is intended to be general / generic, it got his name: intended to allow downloads from ANY mediathek.

• any-dl 0.9.8 (new site parsers, enhanced parser-language, better handling of conf-files)
• any-dl 0.9.10 (new command line option "-ms" to add a sleep-time, when a bulk-get is performed)

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• any-dl 0.9.12 (2014-06-18), any-dl 0.9.12: md5sum
  In short: many new features: if a get-command is followed by save-command, for bulk-download, files will be saved directly after download, instead of using RAM for it; more than one level of verbosity, ...
• any-dl 0.12.0 (2015-01-31), any-dl 0.12.0: md5sum
  

  So many changes, bug-fixes and enhancements during the updates from year 2014 to 2015, that not all is mentioned here.

  There is a lot of information in the git-repo (see commit-messages).

  But one nice feature is the tagselect-command, which allows extracting html-content based on DOM-description.
  If picking one certain tag and atrribute is necessary, this is easily done now.

• any-dl 0.12.2 (2015-02-07),
• any-dl 0.14.0 (2015-03-19) New in 0.14.0, since 0.12.0:
  • completely switched to OCamlnet; curl not longer needed
  • new command "download": directly writing data to disk (implemented and used)
  • new command "urldecode": decode url's
  • new parser "script-src": download script-src files (e.g. *.js)
  • new parser "rbb", for http://www.rbb-online.de/
  • new parser "DWN", for Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten
  • new parser as warapper for youtube-dl
  • some parsers enhanced (e.g. subtitles for ARTE now added to filename)
  • unused parser-definitons removed
  • code refactored and cleaned up
  • code from main.ml splitted into main.ml and evaluate.ml
  • some commands (to_string, tagselect, dump) accept some more input-types
  • grep/grepv-commands: accept argument-list now
  • unnecessary messages to stderr removed
  • some messages that formerly (verbose-)printed to stderr, now write to stdout
  • parser "arte-guide" renamed to "arte-dl", which is more appropriate
  • command tagselect: empty list (nothing found) not throwing an exception anymore. It's just giving back empty list.
  • using newer version of OCamlMakefile (from github)
  • Makefile changed to get more warnings

...if you want to be very close to the current / up_to-date release, you can follow me on github. you can look at github here for any-dl.