TwinVine
TwinVine is the home of TWO packages Vinefeeder and Envied
TwinVine is the easy way to handle your download tasks.
- When you have an exact program url - just use envied as a command line call.
- When you only have the program name - just start with a search in vinefeeder.
- When you dont know what you want; use the browse function.
- Browse media categories like Film, Drama or Sport, for a selected service.
- Batch Mode: select multiple downloads from various services and download all together.
usage
uv run envied dl (options) (service) (program url)
uv run vinefeeder - to open the interactive GUI for search, browse, etc.
To go to the command line use of 'envied' after using the GUI: close the GUI directly, or ctrl+c in terminal.
Installation - with binaries and python already installed
uv is the package manager and loads both VineFeeder and Envied together. Envied runs independenly or may be called by Vinefeeder.
If you do not alrealy have uv as a python package try to install it first, using pip -
pip install uv
or
python3 -m pip install uv
or use your system's package manager to install python-uv
Install TwinVine;
the following installs the latest version directly from the GitHub repository:
git clone https://github.com/vinefeeder/TwinVine.git
cd TwinVine
uv clean
uv lock
uv sync
uv run vinefeeder --help or
uv run envied --helpInstallation for Windows with a bare machine and novice user.
You are going to install all the required binary files and automatically add then to system variable - Path. The Python interpreter will be installed automatically too.
- download git from https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/download/v2.52.0.windows.1/Git-2.52.0-64-bit.exe and run the installer
- re-start your machine
- Open Start
- Type PowerShell and select open PowerShell
- Within PowerShell change directory, chdir, or cd, to your chosen location, where TwinVine is to be installed, and type the following command followed by enter,
git clone https://github.com/vinefeeder/TwinVine.git
- Files will be downloaded, a folder called TwinVine will be created.
- Close PowerShell and re-open with admininstrator privileges. Do...
- Open Start
- Type PowerShell
- Right-click Windows PowerShell → Run as administrator
- Inside PowerShell, change directory to TwinVine (cd TwinVine) and run the following command by copying or typing the line, followed by pressing enter.
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\Install-media-tools.ps1
- Watch the installation, a number of binary files will be downloaded and installed to C:\Tool\bin. Installation will take a while. After finishing, close PowerShell and restart your machine.
- Open Start
- Type PowerShell
- Type uv [return]. Expect to see a screen of help. If uv did not install from the Install-media-tools.ps1 script you will not see any response. Uv is a python package manager.
- If uv is not installed close PowerShell and re-open as administrator, so
- Open Start
- Type PowerShell
- Right-click Windows PowerShell → Run as administrator
- Type powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/0.9.18/uv-installer.ps1 | iex" [return]
- Close PowerShell and re-start your machine.
- Type [WindowsKey]+R to open PowerShell,
- cd to TwinVine and type each line below followed by return. Some commands will take a while to finish.
uv lock
uv sync
cp .\packages\envied\src\envied\envied-working-example.yaml .\packages\envied\src\envied\envied.yaml
uv run vinefeeder --help
uv run envied --help
uv run envied dl -?
That's it for Windows; uv run vinefeeder to get started!
Installation for Linux with a bare machine.
There is an installation file to install binaries. Install-media-tools.sh. Open it in a text editor and edit lines 6 and 7. Change the Debian/Ubuntu package-manager command 'apt-get' to whatever your package manager uses (dnf, pacman, yast, etc)
Then save and close and run the script with
sudo bash ./Install-media-tools.sh
The script will take some time to install. Check uv is installed. If not, you can install uv with the following command in a terminal window
wget -qO- https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
Finally, cd to TwinVine and run each command in order,
uv lock
uv sync
cp .\packages\envied\src\envied\envied-working-example.yaml .\packages\envied\src\envied\envied.yaml
uv run vinefeeder --help
uv run envied --help
uv run envied dl -?
That's it; uv run vinefeeder to get started!
Linux
Linux systems are known to screen freeze after envied has finished a download. The top level vinefeeder config file at TwinVine/packages/vinefeeder/src/vinefeeder/config.yaml should have TERMINAL_RESET: True set.
Services
Vinefeeder currently has 10 services for which search, browse and list-select are available
ALL4 BBC ITVX MY5 PLEX RTE STV TPTV TVNZ U
Envied has
ALL4 AUBC CBS CWTV DSCP iP MAX MY5 NF PCOK PLEX RTE ROKU SPOT TPTV TVNZ YTBE ARD CBC CTV DSNP ITV MTSP NBLA NRK PLUTO RTE STV TUBI UKTV ZDF These services have web-origins and not all have been tested by me.
**Other README's""
TwinVine/packages/vinefeeder/src/vinefeeder/README.md
for details for confuring Envied download options on a service by service basis.
TwinVine/packages/envied/README.md links to wiki (unshackle - envied's parent)
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