# justfoolingaround/animdl

A highly efficient, fast, powerful and light-weight anime downloader and streamer for your favorite anime.

Repository: https://github.com/justfoolingaround/animdl
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/animdl
Language: Python
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: anime, download, python, scraper
Last push: 2024-06-13T19:16:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1966, "days_push": 811, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1522, forks 114 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:58.012526+00:00)

## What it is
animdl is a lightweight Python CLI tool that scrapes, streams, and downloads anime episodes from supported providers. It supports quality selection, episode ranges, scheduling, and piping stream links to external players.

## Use cases
- download anime episodes from the command line
- stream anime directly in a local video player
- extract stream links for external tools
- schedule and track new anime episodes
- search anime by query and pick episodes

## When to choose
- you want a fast, lightweight terminal-based anime downloader
- you prefer piping stream URLs to players like mpv or ffmpeg
- you want configurable providers and quality selection

## When to avoid
- you need a GUI application
- you want a legal licensed streaming service
- you need support for non-anime video sites

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, video-processing, cli
- domain: media, entertainment, crawlers
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: anime, downloader, streamer, scraper, video-download, command-line

## Member repositories
- justfoolingaround/animdl (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:58.012526+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:31:47.671461+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/justfoolingaround/animdl (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:58.012526+00:00, sha a129c55c9b48)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.