How to easily download whole albums and tracks from Bandcamp on Linux.

The Bandcamp website hosts a lot of music, and it is very easy to download music from the website easily on Linux.

Firstly, install the Python pip3 addon.

4.4 Sat Jan 18 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo apt install python3-pip

Then, install the Python Bandcamp script.

4.4 Sat Jan 18 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ pip3 install bandcamp-downloader

This script was installed under ~./local/bin for me. Move it to /usr/local/bin. Then it is accessible very easily. Then we may easily download music from Bandcamp without much fuss at all.

This is an example, downloading a single track from Bandcamp. Move into your music folder first, then the script will create directories to store the track(s).

4.4 Sat Jan 18 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ ./bandcamp-dl https://lustmord.bandcamp.com/track/dread-naught

Or to download a whole album, just point it to the album URL.

4.4 Sat Jan 18 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ bandcamp-dl https://kammarheit.bandcamp.com/album/kollektionen

This works very well, this is a great use of Python, to enable downloading music very easily. Give this a go and you should be very pleased. This even applies the proper album art to the music. This is a very useful script indeed.