Command line tool to download complete Giant Bomb shows or a list of separate videos with a single command.
- Node.js (version 18 or later)
The easiest way to run this tool is to use npx.
npx giantbomb-show-dl@latest --api_key <YOUR_API_KEY> --show "Unprofessional Fridays" --dir "~/Downloads/GiantBomb"It's also possible to install the tool globally using npm, after which the binary can be used in your shell. If you use this method make sure to regularly check for updates.
npm install -g giantbomb-show-dl
giantbomb-show-dl --api_key <YOUR_API_KEY> --show "Unprofessional Fridays" --dir "~/Downloads/GiantBomb"| Option | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
--api_key |
✅ | Your Giant Bomb API key, can be found at https://www.giantbomb.com/api/. |
--show |
🔀 | Name of the Giant Bomb show to download, must be an exact match. Mutually exclusive with --video_id and --archive. |
--video_id |
🔀 | Giant Bomb video ID, multiple can be separated by commas. IDs can be found in the video URL on the website, they are formatted as 12345-87654.Mutually exclusive with --show and --archive. |
--archive |
🔀 | Enable archive mode, will download every video from the API one by one. Mutually exclusive with --show and --video_id. |
--dir |
✅ | Directory the videos should be downloaded to. When using the --show option a subdirectory will be created for the selected show. |
--quality |
❌ | Quality to download videos in, will fall back to lower quality if selected is not available. Defaults to highest. Options are low, high, hd and highest. |
--retries |
❌ | Amount of times a failed download will be retried, defaults to 2. |
--from_date |
❌ | Videos published before this date will not be downloaded. Formatted as YYYY-MM-DD. Only when using --show. |
--to_date |
❌ | Videos published after this date will not be downloaded. Formatted as YYYY-MM-DD. Only when using --show. |
--mp3tag |
❌ | Create a .txt file that can be used within the Mp3tag software to tag your videos for use in media libraries. Ignored when downloading using --archive. |
--debug |
❌ | Will output extra logging when enabled, can be useful for troubleshooting. |
Will always download the highest quality available for each video. Normally the API does not return 8k bitrate versions of videos. but this tool checks if they are available and downloads them when the quality highest is used.
Will keep track of which files are downloaded successfully. These files will not be downloaded again on the next run, this provides an easy way to retry failed downloads by re-running the same command.
To reset download tracking remove the downloaded.json file from the relative directory.
If a download is interrupted this tool will resume where the download previously ended on the next attempt.
This tool also downloads the image(s) and metadata for each show and video. This data can be used to enhance your library in your media server of choice.
This tool will autmatically rate limit API requests to not exceed Giant Bomb API usage guidelines.