rbbKultur - Mediathek-Downloader

HowTo download “Mediathek” features for archival purposes

rbbKultur - Mediathek-Downloader

// Introduction

For archival or educational purposes it might be useful to know how to download content from public radio and TV broadcasters’ archives, i.e. “Mediathek”.
This only works, when the program is archived as a whole file in a convenient format like mp3 or mp4, and not in a chunked m3u streaming format. This we will see in step 4. below. So if we encounter m3u, we will use VLC instead to capture and convert the stream, see:
HowTo download audio from m3u or m4s with VLC

1. select Program

• rbbKultur - Mediathek

https://www.kulturradio.de/zum_nachhoeren/

• chose date and program

2. inspect element

• i.e. launch Developer Tools
  • FireFox: CTRL+SHIFT+C
  • Chrome: CTRL+SHIFT+I

3. Start Mediathek player

• i.e. start the podcast or video once we have the Developer Tools open, so that we can analyze the traffic under Network

4. back in Developer Tools

• under Network right click on the File (media/ mpeg)
• then Copy URL or copy as cURL

5. Download via bash script

• adjust script

rbb_downloader()
  {
    if [ -z "$1" ]
      then echo "Dateiname fehlt"
    elif [ -z "$2" ]
      then  "Download URL fehlt"
    else
      DWNDIR=/tmp/Downloads/AlteMusik
      AMDOWN=$1
      rbbmediapmdp=$2
      curl $rbbmediapmdp -o $DWNDIR/"$AMDOWN"
      ls -htl $DWNDIR
  fi
  }
  
# usage:
rbb_downloader "File_Name" "Download_URL"

• optional: save in bashrc

C:\cygwin64\home\schmalfuss\.bashrc

• run
  • e.g. 

rbb_downloader "Alte Musik - 2020-07-08 - Heinrich Isaac - Lieder und Motetten.mp3" "https://rbbmediapmdp-a.akamaihd.net/content/74/da/74da3627-5312-4f34-b681-93c48f12202d/0a858af8-b788-430b-9f5a-b5c678701a18_53d97702-265a-4586-a6d8-c8c7ad9bac80.mp3"