Add-on:Simple Downloader for xbmc plugins
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Installing
This add-on is installed from the Add-on browser located in Kodi as follows:
Introduction
This is a downloader developed and used with the YouTube and BlipTV addons.
Features
- One queue across all plugins
- Requeing an existing item moves it to the front of the queue.
- RTMP downloading if the rtmpdump binary is installed.
- RTSP/mms downloading if the vlc or mplayer binary is installed.(And any other stream they accept)
Testing/Status
Integration and unittests are run continously by Jenkins
http://tc.tobiasussing.dk/jenkins/view/Simple%20Downloader/
Developers
This is a unified cross plugin http/rtmp downloader.
It is currently not possible to distribute the rtmpdump binary with this addon.
The user must make sure rtmpdump is installed in a system PATH for rtmp downloading to work.
Development and support thread: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?t=116500
Setup
To use the downloader edit your addon.xml like this.
<requires> <import addon="xbmc.python" version="2.0"/> <import addon="script.module.simple.downloader" version="1.9.5"/> # Add this </requires>
And add the following to your py file.
import SimpleDownloader as downloader downloader = downloader.SimpleDownloader()
You can now access the downloader through the "downloader" variable.
Debugging
To enable debugging set the following values in your default.py
dbg = True # Default
Or you can change it after import with.
downloader.dbg = True # Default
Whenever you debug your own code you should also debug in the cache. Otherwise you should remember to DISABLE it.
download(self, filename, dict = {})
Takes filename(string) and dictionary list with url and download_path.
The filename must be unique.
Input dictinary variables:
- url(string): URL to download
- Title(string): Title to give download. Use filename if not set.
- download_path(string): Path to store file in
- live(bool): Set to True when streaming rtmp live.
- duration(int): Duration in minutes to download(For live streams).
Returns None
A simple http download
params = { "url": "http://server.com/video.mp4", "download_path": "/tmp" } downloader.download("myvideo.mp4", params)
A simple http download with a custom title.
params = { "url": "http://server.com/video.mp4", "download_path": "/tmp", "Title": "my video" } downloader.download("myvideo.mp4", params)
A simple RTMP download
params = {"url": "rtmp://edge01.fms.dutchview.nl/botr/bunny", "download_path": "/tmp", "Title": "bunny"} downloader.download("bunny.mp4", params)
A simple RTMP Live download
video = {"url": "rtmp://aljazeeraflashlivefs.fplive.net:1935/aljazeeraflashlive-live/aljazeera_english_1", "download_path": "/tmp", "Title": "Live Download", "live": "true", "duration": "10"} downloader.download("aljazeera-10minutes.mp4", params)
isRTMPInstalled()
Returns True if rtmpdump is installed
isVLCInstalled()
Returns True if vlc is installed
isMPlayerInstalled()
Returns True if mplayer is installed