Nightmare Bandcamp

A browser automation script to batch download your private bandcamp collection.

npm i impaler/bandcamp-dl -g

This provides the bandcamp-dl command. So to download your entire collection to ~/Downloads/.bandcamp run this:

bandcamp-dl -d ~/Downloads/.bandcamp --username charles --password secrets

A hidden Chromium browser now run's in the background, progress info will print to stdout.

See more options in the help:

bandcamp-dl --help

You can do other things like specify format and a search filter, eg:

bandcamp-dl --format FLAC --search "Amiga500" -u Charles -p secrets -d ~/Downloads/.bandcamp

Thanks to Nightmare, Electron and Chromium. With this we can automate almost anything in a web browser.

Warning this is just a script that automates what an actual user does in the bandcamp website. It is coupled to how the website works at the time of writing the script. Because of this it can break any time bandcamp decides to change their website. If you are keen to help maintain this, see the --debug options to show the browser and debug it yourself ;)