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

🟢 API STATUS: ACTIVE & OPERATIONAL All CineCLI features are fully functional. Browse, inspect, and launch movie torrents directly from your terminal. Fast. Cross-platform. Minimal. Beautiful. 🔍 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 pip install cinecli Requires Python 3.9+ 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 cinecli watch 3525 What happens: Shows movie details Lists available torrents Auto-selects the best option (you can override) Launches magnet or downloads .torrent cinecli interactive 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: demo.mov 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 📧 0x1123@proton.me STAR the repo if you like it! ⭐

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