Tidal Downloader

TIDDL is the Python CLI application that allows downloading Tidal tracks. Fully typed, only 2 requirements.

It's inspired by Tidal-Media-Downloader - currently not mantained project. This repository will contain features requests from that project and will be the enhanced version.

Installation

Install package using pip

pip install tiddl

After installation you can use tiddl to set up auth token

$ tiddl
> go to https://link.tidal.com/xxxxx and add device!
authenticated!
token expires in 7 days

Use tiddl -h to show help message

CLI

After authentication - when your token is ready - you can start downloading!

You can download tracks albums playlists artists albums

• tiddl -s -q high sets high quality as default quality
• tiddl <input> downloads with high quality
• tiddl <input> -q master downloads with best possible quality
• tiddl 284165609 -p my_folder -o "{artist} - {title}" downloads track to my_folder/{artist} - {title}.flac
• tiddl track/284165609 -p my_folder -o "{artist} - {title}" -s same as above, but saves my_folder as default download path and {artist} - {title} as default file format

Valid input

• 284165609 (will treat this as track id)
• https://tidal.com/browse/track/284165609
• track/284165609
• https://listen.tidal.com/album/284165608/track/284165609
• https://listen.tidal.com/album/284165608
• album/284165608
• https://listen.tidal.com/artist/7695548
• artist/7695548
• https://listen.tidal.com/playlist/803be625-97e4-4cbb-88dd-43f0b1c61ed7
• playlist/803be625-97e4-4cbb-88dd-43f0b1c61ed7

File formatting

Key	Example	Comment
title	Money Trees
artist	Kendrick Lamar
artists	Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock
album	good kid, m.A.A.d city
number	5	number on album
disc_number	1	number of album volume
released	10/22/2012	release date
year	2012	year of release date
playlist	Kendrick Lamar Essentials	title of playlist will only appear when you download playlist
playlist_number	15	index of track on the playlist
id	20556797	id on Tidal

Modules

You can also use TIDDL as module, it's fully typed so you will get type hints

from tiddl import TidalApi, Config

config = Config()

api = TidalApi(
	config["token"],
	config["user"]["user_id"],
	config["user"]["country_code"]
)

album_id = 284165608

album = api.getAlbum(album_id)

print(f"{album["title"]} has {album["numberOfTracks"]} tracks!")

Testing

python -m unittest tiddl/tests.py

Resources

Tidal API wiki