====== RIPPING TOOLBOX ======

===== Standalone basics =====
==== Video & Audio ====
(example: youtube, vimeo, soundcloud, ceskatelevize.cz, Google Drive, twitch...)

The venerable [[https://youtube-dl.org/|youtube-dl]]. ([[https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html|supported sites]])

Alternatively, its currently better maintained community fork, [[https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp|yt-dlp]].

//Always// try this first, //then// look around for alternatives.

**Make sure** you're up to date though! (''youtube-dl -U'' or ''yt-dlp -U'') YouTube and many other sites like to play a cat & mouse game, meaning ''youtube-dl'' breaks periodically... If a download errors out, there's a 95% chance you're just using an outdated version and it has been already fixed upstream (they make a new release every week or so).

==== Images ====
=== Galleries ===

(example: imgur, flickr, 4chan, tumblr, twitter...) \\
Analoguous to ''youtube-dl'', there's [[https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/|gallery-dl]] ([[https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/docs/supportedsites.md|supported sites]])

Alternatively, https://github.com/RipMeApp/ripme/ but usually doesn't work as well?

=== Zoomable images ===
(example: Google Arts & Culture, all sorts of hi-res scans...) \\
For all zoomable images, try https://dezoomify.ophir.dev/dezoomify/dezoomify.html (also has a [[https://dezoomify-rs.ophir.dev/|standalone version]])

==== Web archival ====

=== Single file webpage downloads ===
https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

For downloading a site as a single ''.html'' file with everything loaded and embedded, instead of a ''.html'' file + a directory that's likely going to be broken.

=== Archivebox ===

>Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more... 

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

Nerdy shit alert, but a very powerful tool.



===== Various Browser Addons =====
  * https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hls-stream-detector/
    * For grabbing live streams or even obscure video sites. Usually an intermediary step to get an URL to put into [[ffmpeg]] or ''youtube-dl''.
  * https://www.downloadhelper.net/
    * Good for sites that require authentication or are otherwise awkward to rip via ''youtube-dl''.
  * https://www.downthemall.org/
    * Classic addon for grabbing webpages with dozens of direct links, or obscure image galleries.