I wont longer be actively maitaining this in favor or blackbeard: https://github.com/matheusfillipe/blackbeard

wcofun.cli

Watch videos from wcofun.com directly from your terminal. You can search, stream and download videos or playlists. You can also continue from the episode where you were left of.

Installation

Just download wcofun script, install the dependencies listed bellow and run it.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matheusfillipe/wcofun.cli/master/wcofun
chmod +x wcofun
./wcofun

Dependencies

• bash shell
• htmlq to scrape easily with css selectors
• jq to parse json
• fzf to create the menus (You can change on the script to dmenu or rofi so you decide)
• curl, sed, awk, cut, tr, tac and base64 are also used (coreutils)
• mpv is hardcoded to be the stream player since you can pipe curl to it.

Ubuntu

sudo apt install coreutils jq fzf rofi mpv -y

Unfortunately you will still need htmlq that can be either installed with cargo:

cargo install htmlq

Or downloaded from their releases page and put on your path:

# Notice this might not be the earliest version!
wget https://github.com/mgdm/htmlq/releases/download/v0.4.0/htmlq-x86_64-linux.tar.gz
tar -xvzf htmlq-x86_64-linux.tar.gz
sudo cp htmlq /usr/bin/  # or anywhere in your path

Arch Linux

You can install from the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wcofun

yay -S wcofun

Or if you download the script you can get the dependencies with:

yay -S coreutils mpv htmlq jq fzf rofi  # htmlq is on the AUR

To avoid "Not found" problems:

yay -S curl-impersonate-chrome

OSX

brew install coreutils htmlq jq fzf mpv

Usage

./wcofun or ./wocfun search query here If you want to download all episodes: ./wcofun -d Search query here

                     WCOFUN.CLI
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Syntax:
  /home/matheus/Projects/wcofun/wcofun [-n] [-s | -D | -d [range]] [search query]
  All parameters are optional.

Example:
  Search and stream or download one episode: wcofun [search query]
  Download all episodes: wcofun -D [search query]
  Watch next episode: wcofun -n

Options:
  -D: Download all episodes of selected anime.
  -d [ep-number|start-end]: Download a range of episodes by specifying the beginning and end. You can also specify a single episode number or a range like n- to download all starting from the nth or -n to download all until the nth. An empty range (-) will cause cause it to prompt for the episode number and then download.
  -s: Stream selectped episode
  -n: Play next episode of lastly watched anime
  -p: Play previous episode of lastly watched anime
  -P [command]: Pre execution command. Useful for launching an http proxy.
  -e: Edit config with nvim
  -c: Edit cached searches with nvim
  -h: Show this help

Customization

By default it will use fzf from a terminal and rofi if no terminal output is available. You can have a configuration file at ~/.wcofunrc where you can export some relevant variables:

# MENU_CMD: Choose your menu command. Tested with dmenu, fzf and rofi only
# NOTIFY_CMD. How to tell you about the status. Leave empty for a simple echo to stdout
export MENU_CMD="fzf"
export MENU_CMD="rofi -dmenu -i"
# MENU_CMD="dmenu"
export NOTIFY_CMD="notify-send WCOFUN"

# User agent. Maybe you have problems so try changing this.
export UA="User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:96.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/96.0"

# Maybe you want to use a proxy? (Helps when getting blocked by cloudflare, or if you want to debug)
export CURL_EXTRA_PARAMS=""  # this option is not used for stream and download
# CURL_EXTRA_PARAMS="-k --tlsv1 -x http://localhost:8080"
export PRE_COMMAND=""
# PRE_COMMAND="mitmdump 2>&1 /dev/null"

No results problem

If you are getting no results for everything you are probably being blocked by cloudflare. This problem happens because curl's tls handshake is not the same as a browser's one. Here are some solutions for this:

1. Proxy

Install a proxy like mitmproxy : pacman -S mitmproxy or brew install mitmproxy and create a config like:

export CURL_EXTRA_PARAMS="-k --tlsv1 -x http://localhost:8080"
export PRE_COMMAND="mitmdump 2>&1 /dev/null"

This will launch the proxy locally before wcofun search starts.

2. Ubuntu's openssl 1.1.1f

If you are on linux I've found out that this is due to the newer version of openssl that is somehow detected by cloudflare. You can get ubuntu's 20.04 libssl.so.1.1 from a ubuntu machine or from here. Extract the library from it, and launch wcofun setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly.

mkdir libssl
cd libssl
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl1.1_1.1.1f-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
ar xar x libssl1.1_1.1.1f-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
tar xf data.tar.xz
mkdir -p ~/curlibs
cp usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.1 ~/curlibs
cd ..
rm -r libssl

# And finally run it like:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/curlibs wcofun

Or you can add export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/curlibs to your ~/.wcofunrc.

3. Curl impersonate

• https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate

Build this project as described on their readme choosing either firefox or chrome, copy the built curl executable to somewhere on your system and set CURL_PATH to it.

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate
cd curl-impersonate
docker build -t curl-impersonate-chrome chrome/

# Wait for a while and let's check it out
docker run -it curl-impersonate-chrome /bin/bash
ls /build/out

If you see curl-impersonate curl_chrome98 means it worked. Don't close the container shell yet.

rom another terminal type:

docker cp curl-impersonate-chrome:/build/out/curl-impersonate /some/important/path/curl-impersonate

Now just set CURL_PATH="/some/important/path/curl-impersonate" on your ~/.wcofunrc

On arch linux you can easilly install it with:

yay -S curl-impersonate-bin

And set CURL_PATH="/usr/local/bin/curl-impersonate-chrome" on your ~/.wcofunrc