🎬 A cross-platform movie browser & torrent launcher CLI
Project description
🎬 CineCLI
Browse, inspect, and launch movie torrents directly from your terminal.
Fast. Cross-platform. Minimal. Beautiful.
✨ Features
- 🔍 Search movies from YTS
- 🎥 View detailed movie information
- 🧲 Launch magnet links directly into your torrent client
- 📦 Download
.torrentfiles if preferred - ⚡ Auto-select best torrent (highest quality + healthy seeds)
- 🖥 Cross-platform (Linux, macOS, Windows)
- 🎨 Rich, clean terminal UI (powered by
rich) - 🧠 Smart defaults with full user control
📦 Installation
pip install cinecli
Requires Python 3.9+
🚀 Usage
🔎 Search for movies
cinecli search matrix
Displays matching movies with IDs:
ID Title Year Rating
3525 The Matrix 1999 8.7
3526 The Matrix Reloaded 2003 7.2
🎬 Watch a movie
cinecli watch 3525
What happens:
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Shows movie details
-
Lists available torrents
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Auto-selects the best option (you can override)
-
Launches magnet or downloads
.torrent
🧭 Interactive mode (recommended for exploration)
cinecli interactive
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Search → select movie → choose torrent
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Manual selection by design (safe & explicit)
⚙️ How magnet launching works
CineCLI delegates magnet handling to your OS.
That means:
-
Whatever torrent client is registered (
qBittorrent,Transmission, etc.) -
CineCLI will launch it directly
Example (Linux):
xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/magnet
🎞 Demo Video
Full terminal walkthrough:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3e3df97f-d1e2-428f-a5a1-54cba121a2f8
🛠 Tech Stack
-
Python
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Typer — CLI framework
-
Rich — terminal UI
-
Requests — API communication
-
YTS API — movie data source
📄 License
MIT—see LICENSE.
Use it. Fork it. Improve it.
🙌 Author
Built by eyeblech
📧 0x1123@proton.me
STAR the repo if you like it! ⭐
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