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Jav-It

The most comprehensive JAV video cataloging tool. · By jav-it

[ANSWERED] R18 closure. Need to download all purchased vids!

A topic by Pgslionheart created Sep 20, 2022 Views: 16,130 Replies: 18
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hi there! 

I just  noticed that R18 site will be permanently closed starting 31 january 2023, which mean members will not be able to access all video purchased starting from that day. 

I have 200+ vids in my library to secure. Can anyone enlighten me how the best way to download and unlocked the vids? ;(

Thanks

I am also damn confused, not very good with scripts/cmd/or anything related actually.. just purchased this JAV IT program but I can't get it to work at all. I have done everything as instructed and also troubleshoot with the issues mentioned in the forum.. but still having errors. 
All I want is to rip all my content without the DRM/DCV block.

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This is actually very simple to use, bit slow though so I would recommend writing .bat for all of your videos and then let your PC run 24/7 to DL all, especially if your collection is that big..

But anyway.. Not sure if you guys read the readmes and FAQ's so here is very short and quick guide to it.

1. Use Chrome and install extension called "Get cookies.txt"
2. Login to R18 and go to your library. Use that "Get cookies.txt"-extension. Save that .txt as cookies.txt in same folder with JAV-IT.
3. Get the ID of your video, you can get the ID if you either watch the video or go to the videos information page if it hasn't gotten removed from sales yet. The ID is in form of something like pppd00666, sometimes it might start with h_
4. Go to folder with cookies.txt and JAV-IT. Create a folder where you want to save your video(s).
5. Open command prompt in that folder
6. Type "jav-it download /c cookies.txt /i <THIS IS WHERE ID GOES> /o <FOLDER FOR VIDEO>" obviously without the " and replacing the <> with appropriate texts.
7. Wait for it to finish, this took me about 35-40 minutes for 1 hour video so you can estimate from that how long it will take you.. I would guess several months with that 200+ videos
8. The video is in .ts format so I would recommend converting it to something more appropriate so it will be easier to view on all your devices

And making the .bat of these is as simple as:
Open notepad, write the text of step 6 to it multiple times, and change ID and folder if necessary to the correct ones and save it with any name you want, aslong its extension will be .bat.. It has to be in same folder than jav-it. And then you just double click on that file and let it run.
Not sure about if you can open multiple instances without issues though.. I would imagine R18 servers would prevent it somehow

And you might need to update your cookies file from time to time too for this

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Thanks for the tip! I didn't think of writing a .bat... I just gave it a shot and it works great!

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Got no chance of preservation here then, some were removed from the website so they have no content ID, I can't use command prompt easily and need the patreon version if I was going to attempt the 3000+ library entries gathered since 2016.

Got to try something though, I hate the thought of R18 ripping us paying customers off after 6 years of giving them money for contents we rightfully own

Good news is I established cookies and a download test, but it will probably take more time and HDD space.

Quite the problem when you have a lot of entries, definitely would need the patreon version

Update - As long as you have all the cookie txt files (I just added them all to the folder) it CAN locate videos no longer on the site, just DL a partial of one you wanted that has been removed and that contains the content ID you need.

Granted you might not locate them all, I certainly won't, but it might help to save more of your collections

Developer

If you stream your videos online, your browser URL will have the content ID you require. So even delisted videos can be scraped in this way.

 this software is GUI and much easier



https://en.eizone.info/streamfab-r18-downloader/

Do you have Ai Uehara or Rio (Tina Yuzuki) movies? I can help you, send me an email to "save_r18@yahoo.com"

How to get patreon version ?

Are there any alternative to R18 to buy dvds ?

Hi,

I just purchased jav-it and I'm having a problem using the tool when downloading r18.cm files.

I got the ID from the website, but i get an error saying : 

2022/09/30 16:16:48 [WARN] Could not start simulation engine:  could not start browser instance simulation: could not send message: could not send message to server: Protocol error (Browser.enable): Browser closed.


Is there any guidance in resolving this error?


---- complete log output ----

2022/09/30 16:16:31 [INFO] Server source is set to R18 (Default).

2022/09/30 16:16:31 [WARN] Due to significant R18 server changes the older Itch.io engine suffers download performance issues.

2022/09/30 16:16:31 [INFO] Please use the Patreon version for the latest backend and engine performance updates.

2022/09/30 16:16:31 [INFO] Verifying if simulator driver requires downloading and caching...

2022/09/30 16:16:31 [INFO] Downloading and caching simulation driver...

2022/09/30 16:16:34 [INFO] Driver successfully cached!

2022/09/30 16:16:34 [INFO] Verifying if support modules require downloading and caching...

2022/09/30 16:16:48 [WARN] Could not start simulation engine:  could not start browser instance simulation: could not send message: could not send message to server: Protocol error (Browser.enable): Browser closed.

==================== Browser output: ====================

<launching> C:\Users\kaylani\AppData\Local\ms-playwright\firefox-1238\firefox\firefox.exe -no-remote -headless -profile C:\Users\kaylani\AppData\Local\Temp\playwright_firefoxdev_profile-8v8v58 -juggler-pipe -silent

<launched> pid=9560

[pid=9560] <process did exit: exitCode=3221225781, signal=null>

=========================== logs ===========================

<launching> C:\Users\kaylani\AppData\Local\ms-playwright\firefox-1238\firefox\firefox.exe -no-remote -headless -profile C:\Users\kaylani\AppData\Local\Temp\playwright_firefoxdev_profile-8v8v58 -juggler-pipe -silent

<launched> pid=9560

[pid=9560] <process did exit: exitCode=3221225781, signal=null>

============================================================

Note: use DEBUG=pw:api environment variable to capture Playwright logs.

2022/09/30 16:16:48 [INFO] Failure to start may be an indication that antivirus software is running. (disable it?)

2022/09/30 16:16:48 [INFO] Attempting automatic repair of simulation engine...

2022/09/30 16:16:49 [INFO] The simulation engine has been reset, but but requires a program restart on Windows.

2022/09/30 16:16:49 [INFO] Please retry your last command to finish repairs and proceed with normal operation.

The batch file cannot be found.

mate, we got same issue!

Developer

Hi there. Are you using Windows 11, or have upgraded to Windows 11 by chance? If so, this is likely a backwards compatibility issue with Microsoft and the much older Itch.io version of Jav-It. You can get around this by running on a lower version of Windows, Using a VM to run Linux, or using the Patreon version which bypasses this issue.

I'm on Windows 10, latest patch. 

I'll try Linuxmint via VirtualBox on Windows 10.   Will advise what happens.

Developer

Additionally, for Windows you can try installing the latest visual C++ re-disputable. In some instances, Windows will have issues when this Microsoft library isn't up to date, yet it won't tell the user (in an obvious way) as such. Here is a link you can try:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msv...

So, I did download all my videos, but I had to setup a new system on my desktop PC.

The files I do still have, but the player is gone. Is there any way to access the video files now?

Developer

There is a very slim chance that the encryption keys are the same on DMM as they are on R18. That means if someone decrypted a title from DMM using the Patreon client and our servers cached the keys, in theory those same keys could be used to decrypt your R18 content. But there is no way to be sure as this is just a theory.

Hi Jav-it,


Can you tell me how to purchase your patreon client to decrypt DMM files?


Thank you kindly

Developer

Just look at the bottom of the README.txt file for more details.