R18.com

djlandd01

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Feb 8, 2022
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I thought about ActionJav. What I would really like is a site that lets me download torrents that I can play without having to rely on their player, so I can truly "own" the films I purchase. Disappointing about R18, as they had a lot from my favorite studio, Hunter.
disappointing indeed about r18. Checked out ActionJav, umm not sure, feels everything's jumbled or maybe I didn't check thoroughly. R18 felt so easy to browse and nicely structured :(
 

djlandd01

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Feb 8, 2022
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I know people mostly pirate obtain their porn for free, but this is actually kinda sad for me. It was nice having an easy English option to be able to buy JAV, if I couldn't find a good quality version online. I wonder if DMM will make it easier for overseas users to buy stuff from them now.
That's the sad part truly, R18 felt so easy to browser, it truly was nicely structured with English version instead of google translated versions. I think the change is gonna take sweet time on me........only if I find something as good as r18.
 

yotaruvegeta

Prince of All Saiya-jins
Jun 22, 2009
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RIP. I just saw it this morning. I was wondering, every few days or so, how this site is going to survive if they're not able to sell anything. Got my answer.
 

yotaruvegeta

Prince of All Saiya-jins
Jun 22, 2009
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Im sorry im just now hearing what happened to the site why the closing?
They weren't able to accept purchases from customers for a while. They said it was some kind of overseas CC issue. I think that long period sunk them. If there's more to it, I'm not aware.
 

SUNBO

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Nov 19, 2007
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Sorry if this has been posted elsewhere- but just read R18.com will be out of business as of next January. Does anyone know of a site that regularly has previews of their movies? I know javlibrary does have some, but I really rely on previews before I download.
Javtrailers.com
Im sorry im just now hearing what happened to the site why the closing?
I heard from Reddit that it's because the credit card companies don't like associating with their site's content, such as r***, etc.
 
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darksider59

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Feb 24, 2014
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I figure as long as we don't delete our cookies we should be able to still access them no?

Not sure about that. maybe it works as the website is still online but once they're closed, it will not work anymore.
 

twenie

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Nov 18, 2008
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I heard from Reddit that it's because the credit card companies don't like associating with their site's content, such as r***, etc.
I've been wondering ever since my CC didn't work anymore on R18.

If this is the case, then purchasing JAV will keep being difficult. Sad that the status quo will persist, just let us support the porn industry lol.
 
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Kurbster

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Jun 14, 2007
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I've been wondering ever since my CC didn't work anymore on R18.

If this is the case, then purchasing JAV will keep being difficult. Sad that the status quo will persist, just let us support the porn industry lol.
And the credit card companies lie through their teeth whenever financial deplatforming is brought up


"We do not believe private companies should serve as moral arbiters. Asking private companies to decide what legal products or services can or cannot be bought and from what store sets a dangerous precedent."
 

kssk

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Apr 1, 2021
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Actually, now that I've thought it about it, the biggest loss (for me anyway) will be R18's facial recognition feature. It's so good for finding the names of uncredited actresses and possibly their other works. I'll have to rely on asking this forum for identifications again oof
 

asdfaznz

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Dec 19, 2014
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As R18 will be closed soon and some people probably want to archive their library with a free tool and until now didn't find a way of how to do it, I released newer version of a downloader that was once available as a website. I changed it a bit and now it is a CLI version script. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask me as the time is short. You can analyze source code in files r18_downloader.php and dmm_downloader.php.

https://filejoker.net/yg7xuphogyr1
Is it the same tool as the one on javit?
 

djlandd01

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Feb 8, 2022
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Actually, now that I've thought it about it, the biggest loss (for me anyway) will be R18's facial recognition feature. It's so good for finding the names of uncredited actresses and possibly their other works. I'll have to rely on asking this forum for identifications again oof
Very Very true, definitely will miss that :(
 

dj-pajacex

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Feb 11, 2022
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Is it the same tool as the one on javit?
Probably works the same, initially I wrote a version for my personal use in 2019, now I changed it a little and released it. It is probable that a method of downloading was discovered independently by many, as it is very easy to discover if you have experiance in programming, especially in developing in php or similar server side language.
 

TheOnlyPad

Member
Feb 7, 2017
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So for what it's worth - I've been using JAV-IT over the last couple of days to download my library from R18 before the closure. I forgot I bought this thing forever ago, when I was first looking for a way to strip the DRM from R18 videos. Never got around to doing it, so if there's one minor upside to R18's closure, it's that it gave me the kick in the ass to get on converting my library.

It's a tedious process going through each video one by one to get the id. Would be simpler if the ID was just the JAV code, but R18 usually sticks some extra numbers here and there so you have to go to each individual stream to make sure. But this thing is like $5, which is nothing to save your library. So if you've got some basic command line skills and any R18 vids you want to keep, I'd recommend buying this little utility and start downloading and backing up.
Any chance you could write a quick tutorial on how to use JAV-IT to download titles and remove DRM? It would be very helpful.
 

IdeNali

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Jul 27, 2016
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You can easily download content (decrypted) from R18 with this open source CLI tool https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp without spending money on JAV-IT.

The only "difficult" thing is to get the correct URL for downloading. For that you need to open the video in your browser, press F12, go to the network tab and find the URL with the playlist.m3u8. (maybe there is an easier way but that always worked for me)

Than just enter this in your CLI (after YT-DLP is installed) and it will download the video automatically with the best bitrate.
yt-dlp https://...playlist.m3u8
 

C6969

New Member
May 19, 2009
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Any chance you could write a quick tutorial on how to use JAV-IT to download titles and remove DRM? It would be very helpful.
It's pretty simple, really, but a little intimidating if you've never used a command line.

Log in to R18 and use this browser extension to get your R18 login cookie as a cookies.txt file. For ease, save it into the same folder as JAV-IT. That's really all the prep work you need to do.

Go to your library on R18 and select the video you want to download. Click Stream as if you want to stream it. When that tab opens, the URL will end in a code, which always looks like a JAV id code but with a few extra characters thrown in (for example, one movie I own has the JAV code "SDDE-259" and the code on R18 in the URL is "1sdde00259"). That's the code you want to use.

Now you want to open a terminal and switch to the directory of JAV-IT. Run JAV-IT with the command:

Windows: .\jav-it.exe download -c [COOKIESFILE] -i [R18CODE] -o [SAVEPATH]
Mac/Linux: ./jav-it download -c [COOKIESFILE] -i [R18CODE] -o [SAVEPATH]

Where [COOKIESFILE] is the path to your cookies.txt you saved earlier (you can just use "cookies.txt" if it's in the same folder), [R18CODE] is the code for the video you want to download, and [SAVEPATH] is where you want to save the file.

So for me, the command looks like: ./jav-it download -c cookies.txt -i 1sdde00259 -o download/
 

dfgdg7865

New Member
Oct 1, 2022
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You can easily download content (decrypted) from R18 with this open source CLI tool https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp without spending money on JAV-IT.

The only "difficult" thing is to get the correct URL for downloading. For that you need to open the video in your browser, press F12, go to the network tab and find the URL with the playlist.m3u8. (maybe there is an easier way but that always worked for me)

Than just enter this in your CLI (after YT-DLP is installed) and it will download the video automatically with the best bitrate.
I keep receiving fragment not found error in yt-dlp.exe
do you know why?
 

scotty

New Member
Feb 1, 2008
4
4
Try using the Video DownloadHelper extension/addon for chrome or firefox. It's pretty simple to use.

I've done that before to download from R18.
 
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Lodestar

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Nov 4, 2017
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I keep receiving fragment not found error in yt-dlp.exe
do you know why?
Are you on a VPN or turning on a VPN in the middle of the download? Is your internet connection and/or VPN stable? Are you opening up another stream mid download that might be interrupting the yt-dlp download?

It's hard to know what the issue is without knowing your process. And who knows, maybe R18 has clamped down on things as they shut down.