Personally I don't bother with streaming them, I just have a sonarr instance for anime with qbittorrent with network restricted to VPN, and jellyfin for playback. Automatically grabs, so no having to do any manual setup aside from adding the series to the list, and auto-upgrade to the quality you want.

You may be able to use yt-dlp depending on the site though.

[–] Pyrixas@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How does one use this yt-dlp I've heard about?

Because my assumption immediately was it was for YouTube, but I quickly searched it to find it can support 'thousands' of websites.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are GUI tools, but I use the CLI.

https://www.ytdlp.org/ will give you the full docs, but the simplest and easiest command is just to download at the highest quality with:

yt-dlp "https://whateveryouwanttodownload.com/streamingurl"

Whether it works with whatever streaming site you're using I couldnt say, but its a great tool.

[–] Pyrixas@piefed.social 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's not working for Miruro or AnimeKai.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 points 13 hours ago

Sorry but I don't know what requirements may exist for each site, if it can work with a specific config, or even what those sites are, I just don't do streaming.

I mainly use yt-dlp for the odd video I want to archive thats only on YouTube or a random video I come across elsewhere. For anime, the only approach I use is sonarr + qbittorrent (connected to a VPN) + bazaar (subtitles) + prowlarr (indexer management), to mention the stack. Then Jellyfin to watch it.

[–] Takapapatapaka@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 3 points 2 days ago

As others said, there are some good GUI if the command line is a bit too hard for you as it was for me. I use Parabolic and so far it's working like a charm (i only do officials video sites though, don't know for streaming services)

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