Kickassanime Downloader

Not working at the moment

A nice and fast asynchronous anime downloader, streamer and more for kickassanime.

Here's a demo of this tool.

Index:

• Installation
• Update
• Command Alias
• Configuration
• Usage
• FAQ
• Usage Examples

Update :

• Check for updates by running the alias or cli.py and select "Fetch Latest" to check if a newer version is available.

1. If you used git to clone the repository then running git pull will do the trick.

2. If you downloaded the repository as a zip file then you need to download the repository again and replace all the files except the Config folder

3. You would need to check if there are any changes to the .eg.json files in the Config folder (there may be some breaking changes) and change your .json files in the Config folder accordingly.

Installation :

The setup is a little tedious at the moment, but I might make a nice installable package using pip. But right now these are the installation steps:

1. Install python 3 with python and pip on path.

2. Clone this repository using git clone https://github.com/KorigamiK/kickassanime-downloader or download and extract this repository to a directory. For example: ~/Documents/kickassanime-downloader.

3. Open terminal/command prompt and navigate to the directory using: cd /home/origami/Documents/kickassanime-downloader.

4. Run pip install -r requirements.txt

5. [Optional] if you are on Linux also run pip install SelectMenu and pip install uvloop to get the nice looking command line menu with blazing fast performance!

6. Navigate to your download directory and navigate to the Config folder (~/Documents/kickassanime-downloader/Config for example).

7. Rename all the .eg.json and remove the .eg from the file name. Open each one of them and adjust the configurations as you want. Refer to Config section.

8. Set up the command line aliases from the wiki or run the command line interface directly by running python cli.py.

9. You may need to download tools like MPV or VLC and add them to your path to stream the shows. This website shows how to add VLC to path on Windows.

10. Now profit.

To set up the command alias:

1. For windows

2. For Linux/Mac

Config :

1. The quality of downloads from servers can be adjusted in the config.json or from example ~/Documents/kickassanime-downloader/Config/config.json

2. The numbers for each of the servers refer to the qualities in the order in which they appear on the website.

3. For example, for KICKASSANIMEX the numbers would refer to the qualities like this:

   

Usage :

1. Run the alias with no commands/arguments or just python cli.py to get the menu of all the actions you have.

$ kaa
What would you like? (Use arrow keys)
 > Play Episode
   Search And Download
   Autoupdate Library
   Fetch Latest
   Check For Updates
   See Config

2. kaa update or python cli.py update → auto updates library

3. kaa download or python cli.py download → starts menu to download a series

4. kaa latest or python cli.py latest → Shows the latest updates on the website

5. Run the alias with commands to stream any anime that you want. kaa --help or python cli.py --help for list of all the commands.

6. Here's the output of the above command:

$ kaa -h
usage: play.py [-h] [--list] [--ep EP] [--url URL] [--opt OPT] [--ext]
               [--stop] [--encode] [--custom_server [CUSTOM_SERVER]]
               [name [name ...]]

Play anime directly

commands:
    update      Autoupdate the library by fetching the latest episodes form to_update.json
    download    Run the download menu to download a range of episodes
    latest      Prints the latest updates on the website
    check       Checks for any available updates for download


positional arguments:
  name                  Name of the anime to search

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --list, -L            Optional switch to list available player servers (not
                        ext) with their index
  --ep EP, -e EP        Episode number. Default is the latest episode.
  --url URL, -u URL     Optional kickass anime url
  --opt OPT, -o OPT     Optional way to select search result number.
  --ext                 Optional switch to play only from ext servers (its
                        faster if it works). Needs no arguments
  --stop, -s            Optional switch to stop the script after searching
                        without playing anything. Will also display the url of
                        the anime.
  --encode              Optional switch to print ffmpeg command to encode the
                        stream
  --custom_server [CUSTOM_SERVER], -c [CUSTOM_SERVER]
                        Name of the player/server you want or the INDEX number
                        in the watch_config priority dictionary. Overrides the
                        current priority.

FAQ :

If you have any questions about errors or installation you can check the issues page and read the already closed issues. I have answered most of the problems that you might be facing.

You are welcome to make an issue for any bug or error or feature that you might need.

If you encounter any problems due to repeated requests and cloudflare protection, wait for some time and then run the script again.

Some usage examples:

1. Auto update your ongoing series for new episodes

2. Play any episode of any show

3. Download a range of episodes of any show

Make sure to correctly create the config files or remove the .eg from the file names in the config folder.