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Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal (github.com)

348 points by samsep10l ↗ HN
Hi HN

I built CineCLI — a cross-platform terminal app to browse movies, view details, and open torrents directly in your system torrent client.

Features: - Search movies from the terminal - Rich UI with ratings, runtime, genres - Interactive & non-interactive modes - Magnet handling via system default client - Linux/macOS/Windows support - No ads, no tracking

GitHub: https://github.com/eyeblech/cinecli PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/cinecli/

Would love feedback from terminal + Python folks

20 comments

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behnamoh
does it violate ISP terms (like at&t)? how to make it less obvious to them?
unpopularopp
If you know how to use a CLI tool then you could also know how to download proper high quality releases without much effort. No private tracker and interview shenanigans. YTS is a bottom of the barrel quality. I actually don't even see who is the target audience of this unless you just made as an exercise to build an app on top of an API.
pedromoss
Great job! I've achieved comparable results on my Android TV with Stremio[1] and the Torrentio[2] plugin. Being able to use the terminal for streaming would be a nice thing to have in Linux. It would also be cool to check for malicious files before downloading.

[1]: https://www.stremio.com [2]: https://torrentio.org/

bryanrasmussen
What I'd like - a tool to stream to timestamps and then stream out between two timestamps to a local file.

This would really improve various workflows.

tinuviel
YSK there is a (seemingly famous) subreddit named eyeblech that is pretty graphic/NFSW.
philonoist
Hopefully there is a Libgen version of this.
seyz
I honestly couldn't tell if the GIF was lagging or if that's the actual typing speed. I give lessons to help reach double digit WPM if you're interested
Twixes
An echo of Popcorn Time can he heard bouncing around the software cathedral… The takedown notices will start coming in if CineCLI is too easy to use! Though looks like it doesn't play anything itself – _might_ be safe
backtogeek
looks pretty cool, will add it to the never ending list of stuff to test
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G_o_D
Terrarium TV Was OG which gave rise to forks like corn Time, Cinema APK, TeaTV, BeeTv
indigodaddy
Assuming we could uv run/tool install this or whatever is the best quick/easy way with uv?
0x457
Torrenting without seeding should be a crime.