bandcamp-downloader VS browser_cookie3

Two projects I greatly appreciate, allowing me to easily archive my bandcamp and GOG purchases (after the initial setup anyways):

https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader

https://github.com/Kalanyr/gogrepoc

And I recently learned about archivebox, which I think is going to be a fast favorite and finally let me clear out my mess of tabs/bookmarks: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

Reminder to archive all purchases

https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader

I have a windows oriented “get past setup pain points” tutorial here: https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader/issues/21

For generating a cookie file, I suggest just using https://github.com/hrdl-github/cookies-txt

Make sure to archive your bandcamp collection, which you can do with the following script: https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader

I have a straightforward guide on how to get up and running on windows here: https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader/issues/21

You should always archive your collection anyways. One negative thing about bandcamp is that artists/labels/bandcamp can remove anything at anytime for any reason, so things you paid for can straight up disappear. This was very disappointing to discover. Note that sometimes things are set as hidden, rather than outright removed. This info may be outdated, as the relevant support page seems to gave changed from the last time I looked at it.

Because of their no DRM policy and full on downloads, not just streaming, Bandcamp has basically become the only place I’ll buy music outside of CDs.

I’m happy enough to hand artists money if it’s easy and I can archive a lossless copy, but if they start fucking around with things, I’ll go right back to doing what I was before. That said, if they fix the outright removal of paid things problem, and start treating “artist” as first class instead of “label” in searches and links, I’ll be singing their praises.

Bandcamp is what I use.

One thing to note, is that the artist/label retain full control of what music is present, and as such can be removed at any time, even ones you paid for. See: https://get.bandcamp.help/hc/en-us/articles/4406122372119-Wh...

I use https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader to immediately archive flac files to my NAS after a purchase, then convert to those to a lossy for space saving format for mobile playback/family sharing as desired with a playlist. This way I have my archive, and the artists I like get their support.

2) Download this code from the repo

Feel like you can just read Chrome's cookie from the file (and filter out the ones you need by site, of course) so you don't need to bother run chrome in debugging mode?

Like https://github.com/borisbabic/browser_cookie3

> which has multiple OS-level controls to protect token leaks

Huh? https://github.com/borisbabic/browser_cookie3 will get you cookies for almost any browser, and plenty of libraries like it for your favorite language exist.

Yeah, turns out the library I used to grab the cookie files, browser_cookies3, has a bug where it is out of date for chromium browsers on windows. The only windows system I had to test it on is ancient and hold old enough chromium browsers to not hit the bug. I have tested it on newer versions of chromium now and submitted a PR to fix the issue in browser_cookies3.

It looks like browser-cookie3 is requesting access to all cookies. It looks like there is a way to filter down to the bandcamp.com domain, as referenced in the README here, in the last codeblock in "Usage".