Bandcamp collection downloader

A command-line tool to automatically download all releases purchased with a Bandcamp account.

$ java -jar ./bandcamp-collection-downloader.jar -d myMusicFolder myBandcampAccount

Usage: java -jar bandcamp-collection-downloader.jar [-hnsV] [-c=<pathToCookiesFile>] [-d=<pathToDownloadFolder>]
                                                    [-f=<audioFormat>] [-j=<jobs>] [-r=<retries>] [-t=<timeout>] <bandcampUser>
Download items from an existing Bandcamp account collection.
      <bandcampUser>        The Bandcamp user account from which all releases must be downloaded.
  -c, --cookies-file=<pathToCookiesFile>
                            A file containing valid Bandcamp credential cookies.
                            The file must either be obtained using the Firefox extension "Cookie Quick Manager" (https://addons.
                              mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-quick-manager/) or using the Chrome extension "Get cookies.txt LOCALLY"
                              (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/get-cookiestxt-locally/cclelndahbckbenkjhflpdbgdldlbecc).
                            If no cookies file is provided, cookies from the local Firefox installation are used (Windows and
                              Linux).
  -d, --download-folder=<pathToDownloadFolder>
                            The folder in which downloaded releases must be extracted.
                            The following structure is considered: <pathToDownloadFolder>/<artist>/<year> - <release>.
                            (default: current folder)
  -f, --audio-format=<audioFormat>
                            The chosen audio format of the files to download (default: vorbis).
                            Possible values: flac, wav, aac-hi, mp3-320, aiff-lossless, vorbis, mp3-v0, alac.
  -h, --help                Show this help message and exit.
  -j, --jobs=<jobs>         Amount of parallel jobs (threads) to use (default: 4).
  -n, --dry-run             Perform a trial run with no changes made on the filesystem.
  -r, --retries=<retries>   Amount of retries for each HTTP connection (default: 3).
  -s, --skip-hidden         Don't download hidden items of the collection.
  -t, --timeout=<timeout>   Timeout in ms before giving up an HTTP connection (default: 50000).
  -V, --version             Print version information and exit.

Bandcamp authentication

This tool does not manage authentication with Bandcamp servers, as they require a valid token from Google Captcha. Hence, authentication must first be achieved using Firefox or Chrome. Then there are two possibilities:

• If using Firefox and running a Windows or Linux system (and if the --cookies-file parameter is not used), then the tool will automatically find the required cookies in the Firefox profile folder of the system user. Currently, the tool will not use cookies from "container tabs", only cookies from regular tabs. This approach is incompatible with versions of Firefox prior to 74.0.

• Else, Bandcamp cookies must be exported in JSON using the Firefox Addon Cookie Quick Manager or in text format with the Chrome Addon Get cookies.txt LOCALLY. The output, either txt from Get cookies.txt LOCALLY or JSON from Cookie Quick Manager, can then be used using the parameter --cookies-file.

Usage

Example of command:

$ java -jar bandcamp-collection-downloader.jar --cookies-file=cookies.json --download-folder=~/Music myBandcampIdentifier

This will download all albums ever bought by the Bandcamp account myBandcampIdentifier, and extract the music in the folder ~/Music, The tool always creates one folder per artist, each containing one folder per album (with the format <year> - <album name>).

After downloading the first album, it will create a bandcamp-collection-downloader.cache file in the chosen download folder. This allows the tool to remembers which albums have already been successfully downloaded, and thus prevents unnecessarily hitting the Bandcamp servers.

Installing and updating

Releases are published on this page.

Each release comes with an executable jar file named bandcamp-collection-downloader.jar that contains all required dependencies, and that can therefore be directly executed with a simple java -jar command. Look for the link named "Executable jar" under each release description.

At the moment there it no official installation procedure: just put bandcamp-collection-downloader.jar wherever you want and execute it from anywhere you want. To install a newer version, simply replace your bandcamp-collection-downloader.jar file by the most recent version from the releases page.

If you want to be notified of new releases, you can subscribe to this Atom feed.

Compiling

The tool is written in Kotlin and compilation is handled by Gradle 8. A Gradle task named fatJar is available to build a standalone executable jar with all dependencies:

$ git clone https://framagit.org/Gwendal/bandcamp-collection-downloader.git
$ cd bandcamp-collection-downloader
$ gradle fatjar

The resulting binary can then be found in build/libs/bandcamp-collection-downloader.jar.

Dependencies

This tool relies on the following libraries:

• jsoup to get and parse HTML,

• zt-zip to unzip downloaded albums,

• picocli to provide a fancy CLI,

• Gson to parse JSON files,

• [ini4j] to parse INI files,

• sqlite-jdbc to read SQLite files.