svtplay-dl - Install on source

Installing svtplay-dl from source is pretty simple. Follow the instuctions for your OS.

For Linux , BSD , macOS

# First clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/spaam/svtplay-dl.git

# To install svtplay-dl, navigate to the directory where you cloned the source and run:
make
sudo make install

# to test the installation
svtplay-dl --version

Prerequisites

svtplay-dl requires the following additional tools and libraries. They are usually available from your distribution's package repositories. If you don't have them, some features will not be working.

Python 3.9 or higher
Requests pip3 install requests
cryptography to download encrypted HLS streams. pip3 install cryptography
PyYaml for configure file. pip3 install pyyaml
PySocks to enable proxy support. pip3 install pysocks
ffmpeg to merge audio and video streams into one file

For Windows

Install cx_freeze
Clone the repository https://github.com/spaam/svtplay-dl.git
cd path\to\svtplay-dl && mkdir build
pip install -e .
python3 setversion.py # this will change the version string to a more useful one
python3 %PYTHON%\Scripts\cxfreeze –include-modules=queue,idna.idnadata –target-dir=build bin/svtplay-dl
Find binary in build folder. you need svtplay-dl.exe and pythonXX.dll from that folder to run svtplay-dl.exe