Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal

🟢 API STATUS: ACTIVE & OPERATIONAL

Browse, inspect, and launch movie torrents directly from your terminal.

• 🔍 Search movies from YTS
• 🎥 View detailed movie information
• 🧲 Launch magnet links directly into your torrent client
• 📦 Download .torrent files 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

Requires Python 3.9+

Displays matching movies with IDs:

ID     Title                 Year   Rating
3525   The Matrix            1999   8.7
3526   The Matrix Reloaded   2003   7.2

What happens:

1. Shows movie details

2. Lists available torrents

3. Auto-selects the best option (you can override)

4. Launches magnet or downloads .torrent

• Search → select movie → choose torrent

• Manual selection by design (safe & explicit)

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

Full terminal walkthrough:

• Python

• Typer — CLI framework

• Rich — terminal UI

• Requests — API communication

• YTS API — movie data source

MIT—see LICENSE.

Use it. Fork it. Improve it.

Built by eyeblech

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