Other sources (fetch command)

delune doesn’t download from streaming services: that means getting around copy protection and their terms. Instead, an admin can give delune a downloader they trust, and delune runs it for a link. Whatever it fetches goes through the same review as everything else.

Settings → Other sources:

• Program — for example yt-dlp, found on delune’s PATH, or a full path.
• Arguments — one per line. {url} is replaced with the link and {output} with the folder to write into; both are required.

-x
--audio-format
flac
-o
{output}/%(title)s.%(ext)s
{url}

The program is started directly, not through a shell, and only {url} and {output} are substituted, so a link can’t become a command. It runs as the delune service, with an hour’s limit, and can be stopped from Downloads.

Once it’s set up, pasting a link delune can’t search for offers Fetch with ….

The fetch command needs sign-in: it’s switched off when delune runs in open mode.