Cloudflare captcha work around

[exadeci]

As you might have seen they've added a cloudflare captcha which breaks spdl.

I don't know if there's some way around it but in the meantime I've found that if you go on spotifydown and do all the process to the download, the download will have a token at the end I was able to successfully add it to the url and re-use it to sync all my playlist

def  get_track_info(link):
    track_id = link.split("/")[-1].split("?")[0]
    token = "long_token_string"
    response = requests.get(f"https://api.spotifydown.com/download/{track_id}?token={token}", headers=CUSTOM_HEADER)
    response = response.json()

    return response

It's not the ideal solution but it's still much better than doing everything by hand

[pranjalagg]

I am guessing that the token would expire after some time. Were you able to test how long the token works? @exadeci

[exadeci]

@pranjalagg It seems to refresh every 10 minutes. My workaround is really not a fix just a way to still sync a bunch of playlists without the website which forces you to either download the entire playlist or having to figure out 1 by 1 the ones that are missing on your device.

Maybe there's some way to get the token using playwright. Get the python script to open a browser with it, catch the responses, get the cloudflare token and return it to the python.

[Notava1ble]

Your solution seems to work. For downloading long playlists, the time that the token expires is to short for all the songs to download, so here's the workaround I found:

I created another script to get the links from all songs and made it output a txt file with the links formatted properly. Then I just passed the links as a cla and downloaded all of them. Whenever the toked expired I stopped the execution of the code, and restarted it with the new token.

I'm thinking of making a better script to make this process easier, making it automatically stop whenever the key expires and prompt the user for the new one, before picking where it left off.

[pranjalagg]

Thank you so much for the suggestions and insights. I have incorporated these changes to the program, and some others related to the changes from the server side. The program is working again. I couldn't spend much time focusing on optimization, so please feel free to modify the code according to your needs and/or raise a PR if you feel like.