#crunchy-xml-decoder ##NO LONGER SUPPORTED I'm sorry guys but I've just lost interest in this project. This was literally my first project in Python and I've encountered problems out the wazoo as I started on Windows and developed it for Windows. If I was to ever to remake this, it'd be from the ground-up and in Python 3. It's been ages since I started and it shows.

Let it be known that Crunchyroll has had no influence of me dropping this. If anyone wants to take over, then feel free to fork and merge PRs. I'll leave this repo up for archival purposes, but I'll no longer merge any PRs or comment on issues.

For a maintained fork, see CrunchyRollXML from jaw20.

Be seeing ya.

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Requires Python modules:

• PyCrypto (http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml#pycrypto)
• lxml (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/3.2.5)
• m3u8 (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/m3u8/)

crunchy-xml-decoder will try to install PyCrypto and lxml automatically, if they are missing. m3u8 can be installed using PIP.

This is a composite of various scripts required to download video files from CrunchyRoll that have been automated with a batch file.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Pre-Setup (Only need to do these once.):
1.  Install Python 2.7.9.
2.  Run pip install m3u8.
3.  Run crunchy-xml-decoder.bat or crunchy-xml-decoder.py to generate necessary files (settings.ini and cookies)
4.  choices from the option

Per-Video Process:
1.  Copy the URL of the CrunchyRoll video you want to download from your web browser
2.  Run crunchy-xml-decoder.bat or crunchy-xml-decoder.py choice 1 and paste link
3.  Download will start automatically. Everything is automated.
4. Browse to the 'export' folder to view the completed file.

SPECIAL NOTE: There is another batch file in the _run folder..
    Run crunchy-xml-decoder.bat or crunchy-xml-decoder.py choice 2 and paste link
        Just want the subtitles to an episode? OK.. fair 'nuff. Use this.

WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS SCRIPT? WHAT IS IT ACTUALLY DOING?:

The process of getting a working download from CrunchyRoll is effectively doing the following:
    - Downloading and decrypting subtitles
    - Downloading the video as FLV or MPEG-TS
    - Splitting the FLV/TS file into 264 video and aac audio
    - Merging video, audio, and subtitles into a mkv file
    - Naming the new video something other than 'video.mkv'

NOTES FROM THE AUTHORS:

From the DX author:
    Yeah, I wrote the basis for this "new 'n' improved version". Basically, I monitored the traffic
    to and from Crunchyroll while a video was loading, found a few (read: a lot of) similarities, and
    basically wrote the script to do the same thing, but parse the file and call upon RTMPdump to
    dump the video (RTMPexplorer was doing the same thing basically).

From the anonymous original author:
    I did not write these programs, and I didn't even come up with this method. All I have done is
    created a few little bat files to bring them together. Original instructions on how this is
    done can be found here:
    http://www.darkztar.com/forum/showthread.php?219034-Ripping-videos-amp-subtitles-from-Crunchyroll-%28noob-friendly%29