yt-dlp batch file for https://southparkstudios.com
Downloads all the South Park episodes directly from Viacom's servers.
You need to live in anywhere that lets you visit https://southparkstudios.com. If it redirects you to https://southpark.cc.com, you'll need to use a VPN to anywhere in the EU or, if you live in North America, "Canada, buddy!" (Rule of thumb: Closest to you.)
First, you'll need to put yt-dlp.exe and ffmpeg.exe in the same folder as the batch file. Then, open cmd. Type in: yt-dlp --batch-file batch.txt --concat-playlist always --concurrent-fragments 20. Let it do it's thing (this will take a while).
In the meantime, any episodes that are clearly labeled (ex: "The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer [NA].mp4") can be played with your media player of choice. Do not play episodes labeled weirdly (ex: "South Park _ The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer _ E 0604 _ HDSS0604X eng _ Version - 423310 _ Comedy Central S1 [5be2e22a-03ea-4f38-886c-2e599aa1e961].mp4"). They are not finished downloading, and playing them could mess up the process when they are done.
Press Ctrl+C to stop the program (if applicable), delete all the bad files, then edit the batch.txt to remove the episodes you already downloaded. Run it again.
(also known as ERROR: rtmpdump exited with code 1)
This is a server issue. Press Ctrl+C to stop the program (if applicable), delete the weirdly labeled files, edit the batch.txt to remove already downloaded episodes, then retry again in 15 minutes.
ERROR: The files have different streams/codecs and cannot be concatenated. Either select different formats or --recode-video them to a common format
The files are corrupted. Press Ctrl+C to stop the program (if applicable), delete all the weirdly labeled files, then edit the batch.txt to remove already downloaded episodes. Run it again.
Remove the --concurrent-fragments 20 line when starting up. Note that this will make downloading the entire show take from 2 hours at most to DAYS. Only do this if you have to.
It cannot download:
- Super Best Friends
- The Biggest Douche In The Universe
- Best Friends Forever
- Cartoon Wars (parts 1 and 2)
- 200 and 201
- Insheeption
- Bigger, Longer and Uncut
- All Paramount+ specials
as those are not available on the Viacom servers publicly, for reasons I can't list on a GitHub repo (hint: politics). Most of those can be downloaded via https://southparkuncensored.com, or your local you-know site.
Subtitles are not downloaded, because that's a giant mess to deal with. If you can figure it out, you can make a pull request and i'll credit you here.
You can delete lines of the batch.txt file to only download the episodes/seasons you want, then run the same command again.
good luck
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