I discovered a rare famous download manager compatible with Cat-Catch m3u8 links and can download hls videos from m3u8 link, but the dream was short-lived, after 5 videos downloaded, the external donwload mananger shows download forbidden, may be our beloved Cat-Catch could add some things to the m3u8 link to fix this problem, for example referer, user agent of the browser....because the website seems to detect that it is an external download maanger and blocks the download :(

[trimechee]

扩展版本号 extension version

2.5.8

浏览器 browser

Google Chrome

浏览器版本号 browser version

130

涉及网址 related URL

https://v6.voiranime.com/anime/ron-kamonohashis-forbidden-deductions-2/

Checklist

• 我已在 issues 通过搜索, 未找到解决办法。 The issue observed is not already reported by searching on Github under issues
• 我已查看 FAQ 未找到解决办法。 I've checked the FAQ but couldn't find a solution.

请详细描述问题 What actually happened?

Hi, even if there is no bug with Cat Catch parser when I download and playback the temporary video, but I can forget about resource-hungry chrome open and Cat Catch can no longer close the download page and the browser when the download is finished despite the fact that I have enabled the option "auto close browser when download finishes".....

but it is not a major problem :)

so I had the idea to use external downloaders to copy paste the m3u8 link given by these great extensions and put them in external download managers, like FDM, media-donwloader, jdownloader....but either it doesn't work and these download managers are unable to download hls m3u8 videos, or there is no sequential download and we can't playback temporary video because it's full of small fragments...

until this night, I decide to install IDA a famous russian download manager because it's compatible with my windows 7 os 32 bits :

https://westbyte.com/ida/

streaming websites to test:

https://v6.voiranime.com/?filter=subbed

https://french-anime.com/animes-vostfr/

and there the dream becomes true! I copy the m3u8 link given by Cat Catch and I paste it into IDA: Internet Download Accelerator which can download the hls video sequentially and display the temporary video and I can playback temporary video!

I set the number of threads = 1, and I enabled the option from the graphical interface "close IDA when download finish".....

but the dream was short-lived, after 5 videos downloaded of 24-minute anime episodes, the external download manager shows download forbidden, may be our beloved Cat-Catch could add some things to the m3u8 link to fix this problem, may be add extra referer, user agent of the browser....because the website seems to detect that it is an external download manager and blocks the download after 5 successful downloads :(

Yes we know great Cat Catch is compatible with external parser N_m3u8DL-RE, but it's not out of the box i mean the last time i tried, there were command lines to add in the Cat Catch settings to specify the download folder and i couldn't do that and i don't know what to do and it didn't work, probably because of my incompetence.....

so a classic easy graphical download manager seems easier to use like IDA download manager, and we hope Cat Catch can find the technical exploit to avoid the "download forbidden" message when using an external download manager like IDA compatible with m3u8 links, thanks! maybe by add some things to the m3u8 link to fix this problem, for example referer, user agent of the browser....because the website seems to detect that it is an external download maanger and blocks the download :(

I have the idea to install a free vpn that acts on the OS and the external download manager IDA uilse VPN connection to test if I can avoid this blocking and "download prohibited" message, but psiphon vpn (and probably lantern vpn, proton vpn and many other free vpn) are no longer compatible with my windows 7 os 32 bits unfortunately so I can't test, and the ideal is not to use a vpn.....because with the internal downloader of the extension, we don't have this kind of "download prohibited" message that we find in the external download manager .......

Thanks !

[trimechee]

UPDATE: after a 10 hour break, I can again download m3u8 links of Cat Catch using IDA download manager, apparently we should not download multiple videos to avoid blocking via external download manager....,i only download 5 videos of 24 minutes each spaced out in time, yet i had a blocked forbidden donwload yesterday when using IDA ......
maybe add this IDA download manager to the FAQ as an additional alternative to N_m3u8DL-RE