freeflix-cli 1.5.7

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, French-Manga, GoldenMS, 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 v1.5.6

• 🎴 New source : French-Manga (anime VF/VOSTFR) with the vidzy & luluvid players ;
• 🌍 First-launch wizard now asks your anime language first (English VO/sub vs French VF/VOSTFR), before the interface language ;
• 🎯 Content-language source filtering : picking English shows Anime-Sama, GoldenAnime, GoldenMS and Nyaa ; picking French shows Anime-Sama, GoldenAnime, French-Manga, French-Stream and Nyaa ;
• 📝 Subtitles follow your anime language : choose English → English subtitles are fetched, French → French subtitles ;
• 🔀 Source menu reordered : anime sources on top, movies/series in the middle, torrents (Nyaa) at the very bottom ;
• ⚙️ New "Update Anime Language" entry in Settings ;
• 🔊 Audio fix : selecting a quality on HLS streams (GoldenAnime/anizone) no longer drops the audio track ;
• 🧹 Coflix removed (its player aggregator is Cloudflare-protected and unplayable from the terminal).

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🆕 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
│   └── freeflix_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.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This notice is to inform you that FreeFlix functions strictly as an automated search tool and specialized browser. It fetches video file metadata and links from the internet in a manner similar to any standard web browser.

• No Hosting: FreeFlix does not host, store, or distribute any media files or copyrighted content. All content accessed through this tool is hosted by independent third-party websites.
• DMCA Compliance: This software does not violate the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as it only provides access to publicly available links and does not store copies of any content on its own servers.
• User Responsibility: The use of this software and the legality of streaming content are the sole responsibility of the user, based on their respective country's or state's laws.
• Copyright Holders: If you believe any content accessed through this tool violates your intellectual property, please contact the actual file hosts or the websites providing the streams, as the developers of this repository have no control over or access to the hosted content.

This project is for educational purposes only.

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📜 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 ;
• Nouvelle source French-Manga (anime VF/VOSTFR, lecteurs vidzy & luluvid) ;
• Au premier lancement, on te demande d'abord la langue des animes (anglais VO/sous-titres ou français VF/VOSTFR), puis la langue de l'interface ;
• Les sources et les sous-titres téléchargés suivent la langue des animes choisie (anglais → sous-titres anglais, etc.) ;
• 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.