jackwener--opencli/docs/advanced/download.md

Download Support

OpenCLI supports downloading images, videos, and articles from supported platforms.

Supported Platforms

Platform	Content Types	Notes
xiaohongshu	Images, Videos	Downloads all media from a note
bilibili	Videos	Requires yt-dlp installed
twitter	Images, Videos	Downloads from user media tab or single tweet
douban	Images	Downloads poster / still image lists from movie subjects
xiaoyuzhou	Audio, Transcript	Downloads episode audio and transcript JSON/text with local credentials
zhihu	Articles (Markdown)	Exports articles with optional image download
weixin	Articles (Markdown)	Exports WeChat Official Account articles

Prerequisites

For video downloads from streaming platforms, install yt-dlp:

# Install yt-dlp
pip install yt-dlp
# or
brew install yt-dlp

Usage Examples

# Download images/videos from Xiaohongshu note
opencli xiaohongshu download "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/search_result/<id>?xsec_token=..." --output ./xhs
opencli xiaohongshu download "https://xhslink.com/..." --output ./xhs

# Download Bilibili video (requires yt-dlp)
opencli bilibili download --bvid BV1xxx --output ./bilibili
opencli bilibili download --bvid BV1xxx --quality 1080p

# Download Twitter media from user
opencli twitter download elonmusk --limit 20 --output ./twitter

# Download single tweet media
opencli twitter download --tweet-url "https://x.com/user/status/123" --output ./twitter

# Download Douban posters / stills
opencli douban download 30382501 --output ./douban

# Download Xiaoyuzhou episode audio
opencli xiaoyuzhou download 69b3b675772ac2295bfc01d0 --output ./xiaoyuzhou

# Download Xiaoyuzhou transcript JSON + text
opencli xiaoyuzhou transcript 69dd0c98e2c8be31551f6a33 --output ./xiaoyuzhou-transcripts

# Export Zhihu article to Markdown
opencli zhihu download "https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/xxx" --output ./zhihu

# Export with local images
opencli zhihu download "https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/xxx" --download-images

# Export WeChat article to Markdown
opencli weixin download --url "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/xxx" --output ./weixin

opencli xiaoyuzhou download and transcript require local Xiaoyuzhou credentials in ~/.opencli/xiaoyuzhou.json.

Pipeline Step

The download step can be used in pipeline adapters:

::: v-pre

pipeline:
  - fetch: https://api.example.com/media
  - download:
      url: ${{ item.imageUrl }}
      dir: ./downloads
      filename: ${{ item.title | sanitize }}.jpg
      concurrency: 5
      skip_existing: true

:::