HLTVDemoDownloader

Downloads demo files from HLTV based on an Event ID. Compatible with the new HLTV design.

This is written in pure python so it should run on any system that can run Python 2.7. Because it uses raw_input, it will not run directly from any editor that does not allow standard input (i.e., Atom) and must be run through a command line.

This program starts by asking the user for the Event ID given by HLTV. The IDs can be found in the Event Archive on HLTV. For example, the URL for ECS Season 3 North America is https://www.hltv.org/events/2729/ecs-season-3-north-america, thus the Event ID is 2729.

The script takes the Event ID and plugs it into a URL to display the list of matches. It then downloads that page as HTML and uses a regular expression to make an array of Match IDs.

Next, it uses multithreading to open each Match ID in a URL to find the respective Demo ID. It adds the Demo IDs to a new array.

After that, the script asks the user to enter the name for the competition. The script then creates a folder with that name. The new folder is in the same directory as the script.

Finally, the script uses multithreading to loop through the Demo IDs and downloads them to inside the folder created earlier.