DZR: the command line deezer.com player

⚠️ For legal reasons this project

• does not contain any track decryption key
• does not cache any tracks on your machine

Preview

Dependencies

• mpv for playback (because of PLAYER="mpv -" default env variable)
• curl for HTTP query
• jq for API parsing
• dialog for TUI
• openssl (or openssl-tool in Android) for track decryption

Install

From the AUR (Arch Linux)

yay -S dzr

From GURU (Gentoo)

emerge --ask dzr

From TAR file

Save into a dzr-master folder :

curl -sL github.com/yne/dzr/archive/master.tar.gz | tar xzf -
sudo mv dzr-master/dzr* /usr/local/bin

Usage Examples

dzr             # welcome screen
dzr /artist/860 # browse deezer.com/en/artist/860

Usage as HTTP server

mkdir -p cgi-bin && cp dzr* ./cgi-bin/
python3 -m http.server --cgi

You shall then be able to play any track over HTTP (ex: http://127.0.0.1:8000/cgi-bin/dzr?6113114 )

A basic web interface is also available on http://127.0.0.1:8000

Feel free to create your own frontend an publish it as a new repository (not as a dzr fork) with the dzr tag.

Compatibility

This project has been tested on:

• Linux
• *BSD
• Android (using Termux from F-droid)
• Window 10 (running dzr as CGI server from WSL and browsing http://127.0.0.1:8000 from Windows)