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We are a community of individuals who share a passion for life and have come together based on shared interests and needs. In our free time, we collaborated to develop Kubespider.

Kubespider is developed to utilize an idle server in a local area network as a NAS, enabling automatic downloads of TV series, triggering downloads from a local laptop, and adapting to various websites such as YouTube and BiliBili, as well as different types of resources such as TV series, movies, music and more.

After being exposed to Terraform and its great versatility, we were inspired to create Kubespider as a general download orchestration system that is compatible with various resource platforms and download software. Kubespider supports multiple download methods, including request trigger, cycle trigger, and update trigger, making it the most comprehensive and unified solution for resource downloads.

To realize a general download orchestration system, it is necessary to adapt various resource websites and download software, so these two parts are abstracted from the core functions:

• kubespider-core: The core module of Kubespider accepts the trigger download request, calls the resource provider for resolution (it will eventually be resolved into a standard mode, such as the user enters the bilibili blogger address, and the corresponding resource provider outputs the mp4 file address download list), and finally calls the download provider to implement Download; this module will also periodically call providers (such as TV series provider) to download additional resources.
• source-provider：The provider of each resource website accepts input of general resource addresses, and outputs standard resource address URLs, such as the personal homepage of a YouTuber, and outputs all mp4 download addresses of the blogger’s videos. The configuration file is in .config/source_provider.yaml.
• download-provider：The provider of each download software receives the request task from kubespider-core, and calls the corresponding service to realize the download. The configuration file is in .config/download_provider.yaml.

To adapt to multiple resource platforms, Kubespider provides many adapters. Enable or disable these adapters according to your needs. The configuration file is in the .config folder.

1. The operating computer and your server are on the same LAN. (I haven't tried the installation not in the same LAN yet)
2. The server is a Linux system。
3. Docker is installed on the server。

Installing with built-in command can download and config anything needed automatically.

# Define KUBESPIDER_HOME to specify the installation path
# export KUBESPIDER_HOME=xxx
git clone https://github.com/opennaslab/kubespider.git
cd kubespider
bash hack/install_kubespider.sh

Output like:

root@cesign [09:01:34 PM] [ 22.0°C] [~/git/kubespider] [main *]
-> # bash hack/install_kubespider.sh
 _          _                     _     _
| | ___   _| |__   ___  ___ _ __ (_) __| | ___ _ __
| |/ / | | | '_ \ / _ \/ __| '_ \| |/ _` |/ _ \ '__|
|   <| |_| | |_) |  __/\__ \ |_) | | (_| |  __/ |
|_|\_\\__,_|_.__/ \___||___/ .__/|_|\__,_|\___|_|
                           |_|
[INFO] Start to deploy with default configuration...
b13820946878c4f00635e7fa3db64ea83506850ebb7d07ff77b62814db1d894a
9c0aa1059f1546a4f1a2accac445ce1389f1c400b96328f3e18c8af03f0bbc70
[INFO] Deploy successful, check the information:
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Kubespider config path: /root/kubespider/.config/
Download file path: /root/kubespider/nas/
Kubespider webhook address: http://<server_ip>:3080
Aria2 server address: http://<server_ip>:6800/jsonrpc, you can use any gui or webui to connect it
Aria2 default secret is:kubespider
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• This step will install Kubespide and Aria2 resource downloader as the default downloader.
• After installation, all downloaded files will be stored in ${HOME}/kubespider/nas by default.
• Configuration files are located in ${HOME}/kubespider/.config by default.

For checking the download tasks on your server conveniently, go to the chrome store to download AriaNg plugin.
Then connect, the plugin configuration is as follows(shown at the end of the script install_kubespider.sh execution output):

Of course, it is not necessary, you can also use the desktop program to connect: AriaNg

With Kubespider Chrome plugin, you can get a better experience.
After step 1 has been done, open chrome, then install Kubespider plugin, and configure it as follows(The server address is http://<server_ip>:3080):

If I want to download a movie, I can right click and send the download task to Kubespider(demo website):

Then with aria2 chrome plugin, you can see the download task starts:

• Install Plex, watch videos on multiple platforms, install now.
• Install Jellyfin, watch videos on multiple platforms, install now.
• Install Baidu network disk(only in china), download in the background, install now.

• Install with docker-cli/docker-compose command mannually, see link.
• Install Kubespider on Synology, see link.
• Install Kubespider on TerraMaster, see link.
• Install Kubespider on Asustor, see link.

The global configuration file is located at .config/kubespider.yaml, which is installed under ${HOME}/kubespider/.config/kubespider.yaml by default. The description of each configuration item is as follows:

As mentioned before, the source provider is used to adapt to different websites, and download related resources based on the conditions:

In order to make full use of the existing download software in the open-source community(For example, YouTube has dedicated download software), the following software is currently supported:

Currently, the following file types are supported to trigger downloading:

Please refer to link for how to trigger the download.

• Suport resource websites'(NexusPHP framework) account maintenance, please refer to link.

See the FAQ for more details, and feel free to contribute your questions and solutions. Your valuable input will collectively improve the documentation and benefit a wider audience. Join us in making a difference!

If you are interested in participating in joint development, welcome to STAR/FORK/PR, please check link for Roadmap.

• For how to develop/debug Kubespider, please see link.
• For how to implement a resource provider for a resource website, please see link.
• For how to implement a download provider for download software, please see link.
• For how to develop chrome extension webhook, please see link.
• For how to implement other webhook trigger tools, please see link.

If you want to participate more in the community, welcome to join our Telegram developer group.

Thanks to the following companies for sponsoring development tools, the ranking is not in any particular order:

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