freeflix-cli 1.5.3

Watch movies, series, and anime from your terminal — multi-language, multi-source, no browser required. A maintained fork of autoflix-cli.

FreeFlix CLI 🍿

Watch movies, series and anime from your terminal — multi-language, multi-source, no browser, no ads.

FreeFlix is a hardened, feature-extended fork of autoflix-cli by PaulExplorer. All upstream functionality is preserved ; on top of that, FreeFlix ships :

• A complete download backend (yt-dlp for HLS, aria2c for direct mp4, with quality selection 480p/720p/1080p) ;
• Batch "download whole season" ;
• Position-in-episode resume (mpv lua hook + tracker) ;
• AniList sync on watch / mark-as-watched ;
• OpenSubtitles fallback when a source has no subtitle ;
• Parallel multi-episode downloads (1–4 workers) ;
• Daily new-episode notifications via systemd timer + libnotify ;
• A Nyaa torrent provider (downloads via aria2 BitTorrent) ;
• A Local Downloads browser in the home menu ;
• Anime4K Mode A_VL shaders pre-bundled (toggle CTRL+1 / CTRL+0) ;
• French localisation of the whole UI (auto-switched based on language pref) ;
• Multi-mirror portal fallback + website_origin caching (24 h TTL) ;
• Multiple bug fixes : 403 on /catalogue/?search= (animes-sama.fr refactor), double-slash legacy URLs in history, settings-menu exit loop, ffmpeg infinite-reconnect at byte 1506, Videasy/Vidlink Referer not propagated, history resume silent-failure, and more.

⚠️ FreeFlix is a community fork. The original project is autoflix-cli by PaulExplorer ; all credit goes to him for the underlying scraping work and architecture. FreeFlix exists only to consolidate the fixes and features I personally needed.

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✨ What FreeFlix gives you

	Feature
🎬	Stream movies, series and anime in VF / VOSTFR / VA / VJ / VKR / VCN
📥	Download single episodes or entire seasons to ~/Downloads/FreeFlix/
▶️	Resume at the exact second you left off (mpv only)
🔄	AniList sync : mark-as-watched on AniList automatically
📝	OpenSubtitles fallback when a source has no subs
⚡	Parallel downloads (up to 4 concurrent episodes)
🔔	Daily notifications when new episodes drop
🌊	Nyaa.si torrents (high-quality anime releases)
🌐	6 streaming sources : Anime-Sama, GoldenAnime, GoldenMS, Coflix, French-Stream, Nyaa
🎮	4 player backends : mpv, VLC, browser, download-only
🇫🇷	French UI : the whole CLI is in French when language is set to FR
🛡	Anti-crash mpv config : ytdl-hook off, gpu renderer, no infinite reconnect
🎨	Anime4K pre-bundled with runtime toggle CTRL+1 / CTRL+0

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📦 Installation

🚀 Quickest — one command from PyPI

If you already have the system deps (mpv, yt-dlp, ffmpeg, aria2, libnotify) :

# Recommended — uv installs `freeflix` in an isolated venv and adds it to PATH
uv tool install freeflix-cli

# Or with pipx
pipx install freeflix-cli

# Or plain pip (user install)
pip install --user freeflix-cli

Then :

freeflix

If you need the system deps installed for you (mpv, yt-dlp, ffmpeg, aria2, libnotify) and the Anime4K shaders auto-fetched, use the OS-specific installer script below — it's the same install + extras.

Linux (Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu, Arch, openSUSE, Alpine)

git clone https://github.com/freedy237/freeflix-cli.git
cd freeflix-cli
chmod +x scripts/install.sh
./scripts/install.sh

The script detects your distro and installs : mpv, yt-dlp, ffmpeg, aria2, libnotify, Python deps, then the freeflix command via uv (preferred) or pipx.

macOS

git clone https://github.com/freedy237/freeflix-cli.git
cd freeflix-cli
chmod +x scripts/install-mac.sh
./scripts/install-mac.sh

Windows (10/11)

Open PowerShell as a regular user :

git clone https://github.com/freedy237/freeflix-cli.git
cd freeflix-cli
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\scripts\install.ps1

Uses winget for system deps. mpv.net is installed (the maintained Windows port of mpv).

From source (developer mode)

git clone https://github.com/freedy237/freeflix-cli.git
cd freeflix-cli
# Editable install — changes to source are picked up immediately
pip install --user -e .
# OR
uv pip install -e .

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🚀 Usage

freeflix

That's it. The menu walks you through everything.

Common keyboard shortcuts in mpv

Key	Action
CTRL + 1	Enable Anime4K Mode A_VL
CTRL + 0	Disable Anime4K
#	Cycle audio track
j	Cycle subtitle track
_ (Shift + -)	Cycle video track
ALT + V	Cycle video track (alias)
ALT + 1 / 2 / 3	Force video track #1 / #2 / #3
ALT + T	Show track diagnostics
i	Toggle mpv stats overlay

Hybrid laptops (Intel/AMD iGPU + Nvidia dGPU)

If you're on a Linux Optimus laptop, FreeFlix detects the dGPU (Nvidia via nvidia-smi, AMD via lspci) and routes mpv onto it automatically (no FPS drop with Anime4K). To also have this when launching mpv standalone (outside FreeFlix), copy the wrapper :

cp scripts/wrappers/mpv ~/.local/bin/mpv
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/mpv

(Make sure ~/.local/bin is in your $PATH before /usr/bin.) The Linux install.sh does this for you when it detects an Nvidia card.

Settings menu

freeflix → ⚙ Settings (AniList) exposes :

• AniList Token — paste the OAuth token from anilist.co to enable sync ;
• Language — switches the UI (FR / EN) and default subtitle language ;
• Default Player — mpv / vlc / browser / download / manual ;
• Download Quality — auto / 1080 / 720 / 480 ;
• OpenSubtitles API Key — register free at opensubtitles.com/en/consumers ;
• Parallel Downloads — number of concurrent batch workers (1–4) ;
• Daily New-Episode Notifications — enables a systemd --user timer that scans Anime-Sama history once a day.

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🛠 What got fixed vs. upstream autoflix-cli

Bug	Fix
403 on anime-sama portal after anime-sama.pw shutdown	Override to animes-sama.fr + local source_portal.jsonc
404 on /catalogue/?search=… (new site rejects trailing slash)	Strip the slash + URL-encode the query
Search results parser broken (no more <h2>)	Fall back to <div class="card-title">
Season list empty (no more panneauAnime() JS)	Detect seasons via <a href="/catalogue/<slug>/<season>">
Episode list empty (no more episodes.js endpoint)	Fetch <season>/<lang> HTML and parse inline var epsN = […]
parse_episodes_from_js only matched single quotes	Now accepts single AND double quotes
History entries with // in season URL → resume silently exits	_absolutize() collapses repeated slashes
Settings menu : choosing options 0/1 immediately closes the menu	Refactor stray ifs into a proper if/elif/elif/else chain
Videasy/Vidlink 502 Bad Gateway in proxy	Propagate selection["headers"] (Origin + Referer) all the way through
mpv infinite reconnect loop at byte 1506	Remove stream-lavf-o=reconnect=… ; rely on the proxy retry
mpv ytdl-hook crashes on autoflix proxy URLs	ytdl=no in mpv.conf
Vulkan/gpu-next instability on Mesa	vo=gpu (stable renderer)
DNS-over-HTTPS timeouts (1.1.1.1)	Automatic fallback to system DNS

🆕 What's new in v1.0

• 📥 Download option in every player menu — yt-dlp for HLS, aria2c for direct mp4, sane defaults ;
• 📥 Batch "Download ALL episodes" in the anime-sama flow ;
• ▶️ Position-in-episode resume via mpv lua hook ;
• 🔄 AniList writeback on mark-as-watched ;
• 📝 OpenSubtitles fallback (requires free API key) ;
• ⚡ Parallel downloads (configurable 1–4 workers) ;
• 🔔 Daily new-episode notifications (systemd --user timer) ;
• 🌊 Nyaa torrent provider (aria2c BitTorrent mode) ;
• 📁 My Downloads menu in the home (local file browser + play) ;
• ✓ Mark an episode as watched (no play) ;
• 🌐 Multi-portal fallback : list of mirrors per source, tried in order ;
• 💾 Portal URL cache (24 h TTL) ;
• 🎨 Anime4K Mode A_VL pre-bundled (toggle CTRL+1 / CTRL+0) ;
• 🇫🇷 French localisation of the whole UI ;
• 🛡 Stability-first mpv.conf (anti-crash, anti-buffer-underrun, Anime4K toggle).

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🔍 Project layout

freeflix-cli/
├── src/freeflix_cli/
│   ├── main.py                 # entry point (`freeflix` command)
│   ├── tracker.py              # local progress / settings store
│   ├── player_manager.py       # mpv/vlc/download dispatcher
│   ├── i18n.py                 # FR/EN translations
│   ├── subtitles.py            # OpenSubtitles client
│   ├── notifications.py        # daily scan + systemd setup
│   ├── handlers/               # per-provider flows
│   └── scraping/               # site-specific scrapers
├── config/
│   ├── mpv.conf                # anti-crash + Anime4K config (shared)
│   ├── input.conf              # CTRL+1 / CTRL+0 Anime4K toggles
│   └── autoflix_position.lua   # position-resume mpv script
├── scripts/
│   ├── install.sh              # Linux multi-distro
│   ├── install-mac.sh          # macOS (Homebrew)
│   └── install.ps1             # Windows (winget)
├── data/
│   └── source_portal.jsonc     # portal URL overrides
├── pyproject.toml
├── LICENSE                     # GPL v3 (inherited from upstream)
└── README.md

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🤝 Credits

• Original project : autoflix-cli by PaulExplorer — all the heavy scraping lift comes from there.
• Anime4K shaders : bloc97/Anime4K.
• mpv : their respective authors.
• GitHub: @freedy237 — fork maintainer.

📜 License

GNU General Public License v3.0 — same as upstream. See LICENSE.

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🇫🇷 Résumé en français

FreeFlix est un fork stabilisé d'autoflix-cli avec :

• 5 lecteurs (mpv, VLC, navigateur, download-only) ;
• Téléchargement vidéo (yt-dlp / aria2c, choix qualité, batch saison complète) ;
• Reprise à la seconde près dans mpv ;
• Sync AniList, fallback OpenSubtitles ;
• Téléchargements parallèles + notifications quotidiennes ;
• Source Nyaa torrents en plus ;
• UI 100 % traduite en français ;
• Config mpv anti-crash + Anime4K déjà préinstallé ;
• Tous les bugs liés au refacto d'animes-sama.fr de mai 2026 fixés.

Installer :

uv tool install freeflix-cli    # ou pipx install freeflix-cli

…puis tape freeflix. Si tu n'as pas encore mpv, yt-dlp, ffmpeg, aria2 et libnotify installés sur ta machine, lance plutôt le script d'install dédié à ton OS (scripts/install.sh, install-mac.sh ou install.ps1) qui prend tout en charge.