Unofficial commandline downloader for https://gronkh.tv

Compatibility

This tool is only compatible with recent Linux-based operating systems.
To run it on Windows, make use of WSL.

Features

• Download Stream-Episodes
• Specify a start- and stop-timestamp to download only a portion of the video
• Download a specific chapter
• Continuable Downloads
• Show infos about that Episode

Limitations

• Downloads are capped to 16 Mbyte/s by default and buffering is simulated to pre-empt IP blocking due to API rate-limiting
• HEVC is not supported!
• Because of the length of video chunks, start- and stop-timestamps are inaccurate (± 8 seconds)

Download / Installation

New versions will appear under Releases (remotebranch.eu).
Just download the application and run it via your favourite terminal emulator.

Note

You may have to mark the file as executable before being able to run it.

Usage

Note

This tool runs entirely on the command line.

Warning

Some videoplayers may have problems with the downloaded video file.
To fix this, you can use ffmpeg to rewrite the video into a MKV-File:
ffmpeg -i video.ts -acodec copy -vcodec copy video.mkv

Run lurch-dl --help to see available options.

Examples

Download a video in its best available format:

./lurch-dl --url https://gronkh.tv/stream/777

Continue a download:

./lurch-dl --url https://gronkh.tv/stream/777 --continue

Download a specific chapter:

./lurch-dl --url https://gronkh.tv/stream/777 --chapter 2

Specify a start- and stop-timestamp:

./lurch-dl --url https://gronkh.tv/stream/777 --start 5h6m41s --stop 5h6m58s

List all available formats, chapters, and more info for a video:

./lurch-dl --url https://gronkh.tv/stream/777 --info

Download the video in a specific format:

./lurch-dl --url https://gronkh.tv/stream/777 --format 720p

Specify a filename:

./lurch-dl --url https://gronkh.tv/stream/777 --output Stream777.ts