Install from 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 3.8 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 or avconv for postprocessing and/or for DASH streams

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