Borrow

Download albums from bandcamp. The program will only use the publicly generated URLs that get used for streaming, as a result only the 128kbps/16-bit files are available. These are files that would be put on your computer as a part of streaming the songs from the site anyway. Additionally, it will only download songs that are freely streamable, not ones that there is no stream for but come with an album purchase. That said, the authors of this software make no claims regarding the legality of its usage in your jurisdiction and, per the license terms, are not liable for your usage of the software. During creation and testing of the software only music for which the authors were legal rights holders was downloaded.

Usage

borrow -path /home/someuser/Music/ https://someband.bandcamp.com/album/somealbum

Using the above, borrow will extract the artist, album, and track names and save the files to the given path. The path is optional and the current directory will be used if it is not present.

You can, at your option, override the artist and album names with the -artist and -album` flags.

Check out borrow -h for info.o

Borrow will utilize golang's concurrency features to download the files at the same time (concurrently), so it should be pretty snappy.

Building

You just need a go compiler then run make to build to the current directory or sudo make install to install it.

License

This software is available under the terms of "The Unlicense". A file with the text has been included in the repo, but I will include it here as well:

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or
distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled
binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any
means.

In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, the author or authors
of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the
software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit
of the public at large and to the detriment of our heirs and
successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of
relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this
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