Help Downloading This Video Content From Zee5

Here is the downloader for https://www.zee5.com . It works only on free videos. I haven't seen free videos that require an account.

Code:

import json
import re

import pycountry
import requests
from pywidevine.cdm import Cdm
from pywidevine.device import Device
from pywidevine.pssh import PSSH

WVD_FILE = "./device_wvd_file.wvd"

CONTENT_URL = 'https://spapi.zee5.com/singlePlayback/getDetails/secure?content_id={content_id}&show_id={show_id}&device_id=device_id&platform_name=desktop_web&country={country_code}&check_parental_control=false'
LICENSE_URL = "https://spapi.zee5.com/widevine/getLicense"
COUNTRY_CODES = [c.alpha_2 for c in pycountry.countries]


def get_access_token(source_url):
    for s in ['"platform_token":{"token":', '"platformToken":']:
        try:
            return re.search(
                rf'{s}"(.*?)"',
                requests.get(source_url).content.decode()
            ).group(1)
        except:
            pass
    return None


def get_video_data(source_url):
    if "/cricket/" in source_url:
        print("Url not supported: ", source_url)
        exit(0)
    access_token = get_access_token(source_url)

    if "/movies/" in source_url:
        show_id = None
        content_id = re.search(r'/details/[^/]+/([^/]+)', source_url).group(1)
        content_url = CONTENT_URL.replace("&show_id={show_id}", "")
    else:
        show_id = re.search(r'/details/[^/]+/([^/]+)/', source_url).group(1)

        if "latest" in source_url.split("/")[-1]:
            content_id = show_id
            content_url = CONTENT_URL.replace("&show_id={show_id}", "&is_latest=1")
        else:
            content_id = re.search(r'/details/[^/]+/[^/]+/[^/]+/([^/]+)$', source_url).group(1)
            content_url = CONTENT_URL

    manifest, response = None, None
    for country_code in COUNTRY_CODES:
        try:
            response = json.loads(requests.post(
                content_url.format(content_id=content_id, show_id=show_id, country_code=country_code),
                json={
                    'x-access-token': access_token,
                    'X-Z5-Guest-Token': '00000000-0000-0000-0000-00000000'
                }
            ).content.decode())

            manifest = None
            for details in response:
                try:
                    manifest = response[details]["video_url"]["mpd"]
                except:
                    pass
            manifest = manifest.replace("-phone.mpd", ".mpd").split("?")[0]
            break
        except:
            pass

    try:
        pssh_value = str(min(re.findall(
            r'<cenc:pssh\b[^>]*>(.*?)</cenc:pssh>',
            requests.get(manifest).content.decode()
        ), key=len))
    except:
        return manifest, None, None
    return manifest, pssh_value, {
        "nl": response["keyOsDetails"]["nl"],
        "customdata": response["keyOsDetails"]["sdrm"]
    }


def get_keys(pssh_value, additional):
    if pssh_value is None:
        return []

    pssh = PSSH(pssh_value)
    device = Device.load(WVD_FILE)
    cdm = Cdm.from_device(device)
    cdm_session_id = cdm.open()

    challenge = cdm.get_license_challenge(cdm_session_id, pssh)
    licence = requests.post(
        LICENSE_URL, data=challenge, headers={
            'nl': additional["nl"],
            'customdata': additional["customdata"],
        }
    )
    licence.raise_for_status()

    keys = []
    cdm.parse_license(cdm_session_id, licence.content)
    for key in cdm.get_keys(cdm_session_id):
        if "CONTENT" in key.type:
            keys += [f"{key.kid.hex}:{key.key.hex()}"]
    cdm.close(cdm_session_id)
    return keys


def get_download_command(source_url):
    manifest, pssh_value, additional = get_video_data(source_url)
    keys = get_keys(pssh_value, additional)

    if len(keys) == 0:
        return f'N_m3u8DL-RE.exe "{manifest}" -M format=mkv'
    return f'N_m3u8DL-RE.exe "{manifest}" {" ".join([f"--key {k}" for k in keys])} -M format=mkv'


SOURCE_URLS = [
    "https://www.zee5.com/global/tv-shows/details/pyar-ka-pehla-naam-radha-mohan/0-6-4z5130241/latest",
    "https://www.zee5.com/global/tv-shows/details/navri-mile-hitlerla/0-6-4z5521328/latest",
    "https://www.zee5.com/global/tv-shows/details/pavitra-rishta/0-6-133/episode-1189-pavitra-rishta/0-1-manual_1ej5qfm3eg8g",
    "https://www.zee5.com/global/tv-shows/details/veera/0-6-4z5521331/ramachandran-disbelieves-raghavan/0-1-6z5536732",
    "https://www.zee5.com/global/web-series/details/maya-bazaar-for-sale/0-6-4z5387149/who-let-the-cow-out/0-1-6z5395324",
    "https://www.zee5.com/global/web-series/details/united-kacche/0-6-4z5327133/pehli-job-dusra-pyaar/0-1-6z5335305",
    "https://www.zee5.com/global/movies/details/the-long-drive/0-0-1z520799",
    "https://www.zee5.com/global/movies/details/kaagaz/0-0-1z536625",
]

for s in SOURCE_URLS:
    print(get_download_command(s))

Output:

Code:

N_m3u8DL-RE.exe "https://zee5vod.akamaized.net/drm1/titanfile/dash/TV_SHOWS/ZEE_TV/March2024/27032024/Episode/CS_Pyar_Ka_Pehla_Naam_Radha_Mohan_Ep683_Episode_27032024_hi_f63ffd3984da63fd926f37aa2767f8c8/manifest.mpd" --key 7dc6efe7413234d48d9e333d22b003cf:b1206b88ab821ecfd8ad7fc658cd16bf -M format=mkv
N_m3u8DL-RE.exe "https://zee5vod.akamaized.net/drm1/titanfile/dash/TV_SHOWS/ZEE_MARATHI/March2024/27032024/Episode/Navri_Mile_Hitlerla_Ep10_Episode_27032024_mr_91a3dde69d75cad0a880c1aa9b28bf87/manifest.mpd" --key f4894e9f315b359c8cf904a3079900f8:66314c52e42102a91665e746df8672a5 -M format=mkv
N_m3u8DL-RE.exe "https://zee5vod.akamaized.net/drm1/elemental/dash/TV_SHOWS/ZEE_TV/REV3_Pavitra_Rishta_Ep_1189_Episode_hi_6358aef56e6cde69f22851803330bec9/manifest.mpd" --key 17dd4a2329c74a04a11f01d162a474ad:901d3b802d1d5aea0b19fe6ca9f66816 -M format=mkv
N_m3u8DL-RE.exe "https://zee5vod.akamaized.net/drm1/titanfile/dash/TV_SHOWS/ZEE_TAMIL/March2024/27032024/Episode/Veera_Ep23_Episode_27032024_ta_b71c599b8eea62aadecc5bcd54ebc444/manifest.mpd" --key 7c4b8cda9f02329dbb68f825d88a0a11:647bf26782d1b6d8d4efcbdd19b9bf77 -M format=mkv
N_m3u8DL-RE.exe "https://zee5vod.akamaized.net/drm1/elemental/dash/MOVIES/MULTI_AUDIO/Global_Promos/JULY/14/REV_MAYA_BAZAAR_FOR_SALE_TRAILER_SN_te_302a1e2ef7e9869e599120cb9092fcae/manifest.mpd" --key 1555614ec20b4bb180927d610119df90:69a12a9228b42c33cbc6aecf45fffac4 -M format=mkv
N_m3u8DL-RE.exe "https://zee5vod.akamaized.net/drm1/elemental/dash/TRAILERS/GLOBAL/PROMOS/HINDI/2023/MARCH/23032023/UNITED_KACCHE_TRAILER_SN_50PER_hI_726aa14219bb75be589a4d8149c82d86/manifest.mpd" --key e93858fc923641ac9c0b158ec8ca7ceb:d03c03f5bf8097f3758553a606fc03bc -M format=mkv
N_m3u8DL-RE.exe "https://zee5vod.akamaized.net/drm1/elemental/dash/Movies/Drama/LONG_DRIVE__ENGLISH_SHORT_FILM_Rev2RTR_en_bc0eb0dea71a1c985cfcb3801e947b2a/manifest.mpd" --key 5e773e33d0b24010a1c6b21e91aa8d4d:043b4394c3e3e2d370136b9243975a95 -M format=mkv
N_m3u8DL-RE.exe "https://zee5vod.akamaized.net/drm1/elemental/dash/Trailers/KAAGAZ_TRAILER_30122020_SN_APME_RTR_hi_c79620526b6b6872a7320ce757c765ea/manifest.mpd" --key 22b06a8249e64b23ac9fa0e8facd0fe3:213b7e2b695bef47a024c0ee81bbf6a2 -M format=mkv

It works for videos from: TV Shows, Movies, Web Series. The Cricket section doesn't even use DRM but instead, some kind of broken m3u8, and the video rarely works even in the browser, so I skipped that section. Credit goes to @snake for explaining the phone.mpd trick.

Originally Posted by Jelov

There's one issue wit hthe script. For TV Shows URLs sometimes it gives the preview mpd as output instead of episode mpd.

Give 5 URLs with this problem. If it's very rare then give what you can but I would need at least 5 to understand the data structures. I write these scripts very fast and occasionally miss stuff like this.

Originally Posted by Jelov

Whereas one can watch the old episodes fully on a free account.

So there is some specific old content that you can't watch fully for free unless you use a free account? Give 5 URLs and I'll handle that case. I don't care about the subscription ones (I won't ever make public scripts for paid content downloading) but I do want to handle all type of free content (with or without account).