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.
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
built something similar but a webapp where you can search using any tracker supported by jackett and stream in your browser, can have a look here https://github.com/hauxir/rapidbay
You negotiate the header to find the video length, to then issue http get requests with the offset to the timestamp. Sometimes there’s an API that cuts with ffmpeg and returns the buffer. Sometimes you just need to fetch the raw bytes between offset+0 and offset+n.
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.
I generally download from https://rutracker.org/ (need an account to search not for downloading). They have pretty much everything that you can imagine (not just films) and in proper quality too (BD Remuxes etc). There will be no scene releases here because they add russian/ukrainian dubs and subs to almost all films but that's a small problem.
The other one is Heartive which lists torrents from the DHT network with Magnet links https://heartiveloves.pages.dev/ You just click on the torrent icon in the middle top of the selected film and all the available releases will be listed in plain text. The only downside that you need to be familiar with the release tags
Last but not least https://nyaa.si/ if you have a slight interest in anything japanese from manga to anime to much more
I just use ye old faithful of piratebay, through the tor browser so my ISP doesn't do shenanigans to it, then ffmpeg to get only the streams I care about (video, english audio / japanese audio + english subtitles) and reencode it to h264 mp4 so the files aren't gigantic and are compatible with everything. A bit old-school maybe but it generally works fine for me.
I live in the UK so I'll also sometimes pull stuff from iPlayer, which yt-dlp works perfectly for, and also off youtube
Can you please reconsider using TOR for piracy? It strains the Tor Network and makes life harder for exit node providers. The Tor Project has advised against it as well[0]. There are many cheap VPN Providers that allow port forwarding and will give you an even better torrenting experience.
Using the Tor-Browser to get the links on ThePirateBay et. al. is of course fine, torrenting the content though is where it becomes a problem.
I don't torrent through tor, I just use it to get the links. I've found that if I use TPB on the normal internet, my ISP (or someone who can see my connections) seems to be poisoning the results, since all my torrents result in a 1.89gb executable file that I'm sure as hell not opening. Getting the links through tor doesn't have the same issue, and then I download them over the normal internet, and everything works fine
And if you don't want to torrent at all, there are recent tools (nzbdav) to build a large *arr library that streams directly from usenet, without need for self-storage
Sure, but this way I know what I'm getting, rather than just hoping I get the right thing. I don't mind doing a little bit of cleanup to make sure I'm getting what I want
I highly recommend setting up a kodi combo: real-debrid/fen/seren/coco scrapers/tmdb helper with your trakt account/arctic fuse 2 (netflix like skin). It is a complete "stream everything" netflix interface.
It takes quite a while to understand how to set everything up and needs tons of customization (which is also a positive), but reddit is your friend. For example this is a good guide (although bit dated, some info may be older but generally it still fits https://www.reddit.com/r/Addons4Kodi/comments/zzfdtb/allincl... )
I know people also use *arr stack and jellyfin to setup their own library but my problem is that i never /know/ what to watch. With this setup, i just turn it on, get to browse customized/recommended and random lists like in netflix and it streams directly via real-debrid or premiumize
Oh; if you decide to have a dedicated raspberry pi for this thing (so you can use it with tv easilly), use a regular raspbian os or something, do NOT use libreelec. It is trying to be heavily customized, but in the end is just worse, buggy, bad wifi support, slow releases from small team, and unability to manually update packages
for public torrents, skip the trackers and just run a DHT crawler like bitmagnet. it'll take a month to "catch up", but after that you'll have more indexed content than any individual tracker & it'll be way snappier.
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
Yes, this seems something that would be so easy to get right.
Not to take away from the achievement of this repo but no one benefits from a recording where the person doing it hasn't decided up front what they're going to demo and then ponders if they type magnet or just delete it and go with the default. If someone has gone to this much effort with a project, surely they can do a few fun throughs, till they can demo it smoothly. Sure, leave pauses, for people to follow what's actually happening but don't draw out the typing, that's just painful!
the tool itself doesn’t change anything from the ISP’s perspective. It just fetches metadata and opens magnet links. What matters is what you download, where you live, and how your torrent client behaves, not whether you clicked the magnet in a browser or a terminal.
I think the issue is the lack of disclaimer/warnings in the CLI, unlike what most torrent sites do. These sites are very considerate, e.g. for YTS
> Warning!
>
> If you are not using a VPΝ already: Accessing and Playing Torrents on a Smartphone is risky and dangerous. You may be in [City, Country] and using: () . Your IP is [IP] . We strongly recommend all users protecting their device with a VPΝ.
I couldn't find anything in the CLI, at least from that gif.
Someone who is new or less "experienced" in this might not be aware that they need to use a VPN or similar, since the CLI makes it so easy to search and download. Even you are an experienced user, you may misread and start torrenting by mistake before connecting to VPN.
Might want to add a disclaimer/warning and/or add additional confirmation/wording before downloading. You don't want your user to go to jail because of a mistake that could be avoided: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46364645
looks cool! one bit of feedback: make your demo gif get to the point faster. either practice typing a bit quicker or speed it up 2x for the typing section
The emoji everywhere is what does it for me. Emoji on every title. Emoji on every item of a list. The same ones over and over. So much visual noise. They’re used like a deficient visual crutch.
It's certainly a sign of something. Not positive at best neutral. As you say it's at best an indication that the author doesn't like writing.
Could it be an indication that the author didn't write the actual code? Is it a sign that the author doesn't really care that much about their project and furthermore could that be a sign that the project is also be be valued by us as much as the author? Maybe the code quality and documentation is less important than the utility. After all many of us don't like writing tests for code!
Perhaps but perhaps we just need to get used to these signs too and get over it.
This argument is getting old. Just because you don’t like something, it doesn’t mean everyone agrees and will take the same shortcuts you do. Fortunately not everyone in the world has the same disregard for their own work, and many of us understand the signal it sends when you’re unwilling to even write your own instructions.
If you want your READMEs sloppily written by LLMs, that’s your prerogative. Just like it’s the prerogative of everyone visiting your repo and bumping into a slop README to decide if they want to even give your tool a second look before abandoning it.
Slop READMEs suggest slop code. Soon everyone who’ll even look at your code are other sloppers and (if it ever gets popular) malicious actors who’ll exploit it in an afternoon because no users understand anything the code does.
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/
shhhhhhhh
Great Job, Love the idea
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
RIP Popcorn Time. It was fucking amazing.
built something similar but a webapp where you can search using any tracker supported by jackett and stream in your browser, can have a look here https://github.com/hauxir/rapidbay
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.
How do you stream a timestamp?
How do you stream a timestamp?
You negotiate the header to find the video length, to then issue http get requests with the offset to the timestamp. Sometimes there’s an API that cuts with ffmpeg and returns the buffer. Sometimes you just need to fetch the raw bytes between offset+0 and offset+n.
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.
Where’s good these days? I’m feeling my old Napster ways bubbling back up from the deep…
First of all this the ground 0 for everything piracy (and more, generally free stuff) https://fmhy.net/
Here are the recommended film sites https://fmhy.net/video#torrent-sites
I generally download from https://rutracker.org/ (need an account to search not for downloading). They have pretty much everything that you can imagine (not just films) and in proper quality too (BD Remuxes etc). There will be no scene releases here because they add russian/ukrainian dubs and subs to almost all films but that's a small problem.
The other one is Heartive which lists torrents from the DHT network with Magnet links https://heartiveloves.pages.dev/ You just click on the torrent icon in the middle top of the selected film and all the available releases will be listed in plain text. The only downside that you need to be familiar with the release tags
Last but not least https://nyaa.si/ if you have a slight interest in anything japanese from manga to anime to much more
Also https://fmhy.net/torrenting#aggregators
Thanks for the links. I'm so out of it these days, I only knew of btdig.com for DHT searches.
I just use ye old faithful of piratebay, through the tor browser so my ISP doesn't do shenanigans to it, then ffmpeg to get only the streams I care about (video, english audio / japanese audio + english subtitles) and reencode it to h264 mp4 so the files aren't gigantic and are compatible with everything. A bit old-school maybe but it generally works fine for me.
I live in the UK so I'll also sometimes pull stuff from iPlayer, which yt-dlp works perfectly for, and also off youtube
Can you please reconsider using TOR for piracy? It strains the Tor Network and makes life harder for exit node providers. The Tor Project has advised against it as well[0]. There are many cheap VPN Providers that allow port forwarding and will give you an even better torrenting experience.
Using the Tor-Browser to get the links on ThePirateBay et. al. is of course fine, torrenting the content though is where it becomes a problem.
[0] https://support.torproject.org/about-tor/using-and-sharing/t...
I don't torrent through tor, I just use it to get the links. I've found that if I use TPB on the normal internet, my ISP (or someone who can see my connections) seems to be poisoning the results, since all my torrents result in a 1.89gb executable file that I'm sure as hell not opening. Getting the links through tor doesn't have the same issue, and then I download them over the normal internet, and everything works fine
If you're connecting through a VPN there is no way for your ISP to know that you're using TPB or any other website.
They can if you let DNS leak to their servers so make sure you really firewall your ship off
I know, that's why I use tor to get the links
On the other hand, the system would be doomed if it relied on 1:1 message board scolding the few good actors to be viable.
that seems like a lot of work compared to click click watch that one can achieve with *arr stack.
And if you don't want to torrent at all, there are recent tools (nzbdav) to build a large *arr library that streams directly from usenet, without need for self-storage
Sure, but this way I know what I'm getting, rather than just hoping I get the right thing. I don't mind doing a little bit of cleanup to make sure I'm getting what I want
Just to be fair, the *arr stack can filter by various things so you only grab the releases that meet your requirements.
I highly recommend setting up a kodi combo: real-debrid/fen/seren/coco scrapers/tmdb helper with your trakt account/arctic fuse 2 (netflix like skin). It is a complete "stream everything" netflix interface.
It takes quite a while to understand how to set everything up and needs tons of customization (which is also a positive), but reddit is your friend. For example this is a good guide (although bit dated, some info may be older but generally it still fits https://www.reddit.com/r/Addons4Kodi/comments/zzfdtb/allincl... )
I know people also use *arr stack and jellyfin to setup their own library but my problem is that i never /know/ what to watch. With this setup, i just turn it on, get to browse customized/recommended and random lists like in netflix and it streams directly via real-debrid or premiumize
Oh; if you decide to have a dedicated raspberry pi for this thing (so you can use it with tv easilly), use a regular raspbian os or something, do NOT use libreelec. It is trying to be heavily customized, but in the end is just worse, buggy, bad wifi support, slow releases from small team, and unability to manually update packages
> I know people also use *arr stack ... i never /know/ what to watch
For discoverability you should check overseerr, which is pluggable via API to sonarr and radarr
for public torrents, skip the trackers and just run a DHT crawler like bitmagnet. it'll take a month to "catch up", but after that you'll have more indexed content than any individual tracker & it'll be way snappier.
This is neat. I didn't realize this was possible with the protocol. Thanks!
Same, I know how to use a terminal quite well but don’t know the latest best way to “sail the seas” as they say.
For old content I often spin up the old RARBG database.
Too bad it's gone.
looks pretty cool, will add it to the never ending list of stuff to test
YSK there is a (seemingly famous) subreddit named eyeblech that is pretty graphic/NFSW.
PSA: It is NSFL, don't be curious and ruin your day.
I assume OP knows what the word they use as their alias means?
I'm confused -- how is that related to the topic here?
RTFA and you'll find out
This community was banned for repeatedly violating Reddit's Moderator Code of Conduct.
So people cant name their project in a way cuz of some reddit gooners? Fuck reddit lol
Not that kind of nsfw.
Maybe nsfl would have been more fitting then
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
Ironically their GitHub profile links to their monkeytype profile. But really, they just need to learn some basic ffmpeg...
Yes, this seems something that would be so easy to get right.
Not to take away from the achievement of this repo but no one benefits from a recording where the person doing it hasn't decided up front what they're going to demo and then ponders if they type magnet or just delete it and go with the default. If someone has gone to this much effort with a project, surely they can do a few fun throughs, till they can demo it smoothly. Sure, leave pauses, for people to follow what's actually happening but don't draw out the typing, that's just painful!
Came here for this comment, that was the slowest video ever hah. Couldn't watch till the end.
Also OP, you have a pip update!
Looks vibe coded.
Probably is, nice that people who do other things apart from learning to code all day can get their ideas out of their heads.
Hopefully there is a Libgen version of this.
Thank you for creating this!
does it violate ISP terms (like at&t)? how to make it less obvious to them?
the tool itself doesn’t change anything from the ISP’s perspective. It just fetches metadata and opens magnet links. What matters is what you download, where you live, and how your torrent client behaves, not whether you clicked the magnet in a browser or a terminal.
I think the issue is the lack of disclaimer/warnings in the CLI, unlike what most torrent sites do. These sites are very considerate, e.g. for YTS
> Warning! > > If you are not using a VPΝ already: Accessing and Playing Torrents on a Smartphone is risky and dangerous. You may be in [City, Country] and using: () . Your IP is [IP] . We strongly recommend all users protecting their device with a VPΝ.
I couldn't find anything in the CLI, at least from that gif.
Someone who is new or less "experienced" in this might not be aware that they need to use a VPN or similar, since the CLI makes it so easy to search and download. Even you are an experienced user, you may misread and start torrenting by mistake before connecting to VPN.
One could argue this is a serious bug.
The subject is movies (cough copyrighted), not Linux distros.
This is an important caveat to raise for someone experimenting.
To your point, it's the upload that gets you in trouble in the US (assuming possession is not illegal in itself)
Yes, it’s just a plain CLI access to YTS torrents
That depends entirely on what you download, the country you are in and your ISP.
Standard precautions apply when using the internet while under authoritarian jurisdictions.
>authoritarian
Copyright is widely adopted even in the most liberal democracies.
leave a feedback folks:|
Perhaps consider a public domain film for the demo?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_in_the_public_do...
Might want to add a disclaimer/warning and/or add additional confirmation/wording before downloading. You don't want your user to go to jail because of a mistake that could be avoided: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46364645
looks cool! one bit of feedback: make your demo gif get to the point faster. either practice typing a bit quicker or speed it up 2x for the typing section
Or use a terminal recorder to generate it:
https://github.com/orangekame3/awesome-terminal-recorder
Great tool I would have loved back when I watched movies :) Could the same be done for music ?
>Use it. Fork it. Improve it.
These———LLM———slop———READMEs———make———me———vomit.
The emoji everywhere is what does it for me. Emoji on every title. Emoji on every item of a list. The same ones over and over. So much visual noise. They’re used like a deficient visual crutch.
I always tell my LLMs: "Try not to sound like an LLM. And no emojis!"
Works alright.
Most boring part of developing is writing docs. I see it as boilerplate. If you don't like it, you're free to open a PR.
The whole repo is fucking boilerplate.
Get used to it. Nobody will write readmes by hand. I've always hated it and now I'll just let the LLM write it.
It's certainly a sign of something. Not positive at best neutral. As you say it's at best an indication that the author doesn't like writing.
Could it be an indication that the author didn't write the actual code? Is it a sign that the author doesn't really care that much about their project and furthermore could that be a sign that the project is also be be valued by us as much as the author? Maybe the code quality and documentation is less important than the utility. After all many of us don't like writing tests for code!
Perhaps but perhaps we just need to get used to these signs too and get over it.
This argument is getting old. Just because you don’t like something, it doesn’t mean everyone agrees and will take the same shortcuts you do. Fortunately not everyone in the world has the same disregard for their own work, and many of us understand the signal it sends when you’re unwilling to even write your own instructions.
If you want your READMEs sloppily written by LLMs, that’s your prerogative. Just like it’s the prerogative of everyone visiting your repo and bumping into a slop README to decide if they want to even give your tool a second look before abandoning it.
Slop READMEs suggest slop code. Soon everyone who’ll even look at your code are other sloppers and (if it ever gets popular) malicious actors who’ll exploit it in an afternoon because no users understand anything the code does.
Then get some freaking taste in READMEs. We can guide the LLMs to better results.
It used to be "don't try to outsmart the compiler", I'm waiting for the time people start saying the same thing about LLMs.
"you're absolutely right!"