f1tv-dl

Watch videos locally from f1tv website

Note: a valid username/password is required. The app will save your session so the they will only be required again when your session has expried.

f1tv-dl <url>

Positionals:
  url  The f1tv url for the video                                       [string]

Options:
      --help                 Show help                                 [boolean]
      --version              Show version number                       [boolean]
  -c, --channel              Choose an alternate channel for a content with
                             multiple video feeds. Use the channel-list option
                             to see a list of channels and specify
                             name/number/tla to select alternate channel.
                                                        [string] [default: null]
  -i, --international-audio  Select a language to include from the INTERNATIONAL
                             feed. This audio will be included in the file as a
                             secondary audio track.
              [string] [choices: "eng", "nld", "deu", "fra", "por", "spa", "fx"]
  -t, --itsoffset            Used to sync secondary audio. Specify the time
                             offset as '(-)hh:mm:ss.SSS'
                                              [string] [default: "00:00:00.000"]
  -a, --audio-stream         Specify audio stream language to download
                                                       [string] [default: "eng"]
  -s, --video-size           Specify video size to download as WxH or 'best' to
                             select the highest resolution. (e.g. 640x360,
                             1920x1080, best)         [string] [default: "best"]
  -f, --format               Specify mp4 or TS output (default mp4)
                                [string] [choices: "mp4", "ts"] [default: "mp4"]
  -o, --output-directory     Specify a directory for the downloaded file
                                                        [string] [default: null]
  -U, --username             F1TV User name             [string] [default: null]
  -P, --password             F1TV password              [string] [default: null]
      --channel-list         Provides a list of channels available from url (for
                             videos with multiple cameras)
                                                      [boolean] [default: false]
      --stream-url           Return the tokenized URL for use in another
                             application and do not download the video
                                                      [boolean] [default: false]
  -l, --log-level            Set the log level
          [choices: "trace", "debug", "info", "warn", "error"] [default: "info"]

Use

Use npm to install.

(ffmpeg and ffprobe are required and need to be present in the path)

npm i -g @thedave42/f1tv-dl

or use Docker (no need to install ffmpeg)

docker run -v <your local directory>:/download ghcr.io/thedave42/f1tv-dl-docker:latest -o /download <url> [options]

Username and password can also be read from the environment variables F1TV_USER and F1TV_PASS.

Download a video

Log in to your f1tv account, navigate to the video you want to watch, and copy the url from your browser.

f1tv-dl <url>

See a list of different video feeds from a race with multiple feeds

f1tv-dl <url> --channel-list

Download the data channel stream from a race

f1tv-dl <url> -c data

Add Dutch audio from the international broadcast feed

f1tv-dl <url> -i nld