sudo curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amogusussy/torrentCLI/main/torrentcli -o /usr/bin/torrentcli && sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/torrentcli
Alternatively, you can just download the script directly from the browser with the above link.
You can run it by typing torrentcli search query
. So for example, if you were to want a Big Buck Bunny torrent, you could type torrentcli Big Buck Bunny
If you've downloaded it from the browser, you can run it with python3 /path/to/torrentcli search query
If you have vlc-bittorrent
installed, you can run the command with the -s
flag to stream the torrent.
This is reliant on the Librex API.
You can self host it yourself with the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/hnhx/librex/
cd librex
php -S localhost:8080
Then open /usr/bin/torrentcli
and replace site = random.choice(sites)
with site = 'http://localhost:8080'
By default, this will use xdg-open, which is specific to the Xorg server on Unix-like machines. You can change that by editing subprocess.run(["xdg-open", magnet])
by replacing xdg-open with whatever torrent client you use.