bitsmuggler

TUI app to download YTS movies and opensubtitles subs

Caveats

• Go version 1.24
• This program has been developed on and for Linux following open source philosophy.

Installation

• Using Go

go install github.com/javiorfo/bitsmuggler@latest

• Downloading, compiling and installing manually (Linux):

git clone https://github.com/javiorfo/bitsmuggler
cd bitsmuggler
sudo make clean install

• From AUR Arch Linux:

yay -S bitsmuggler

Description

• This program is a kind of TUI wrapper of YTS movies (a.k.a. yify) server and opensubtitles.com (a.k.a. opensubtitles.org)
• You can search and download movies from YTS server and search and download subtitles from opensubtitles server
• Some properties could be define in a file stored as .config/bitsmuggler/config.toml default values

Usage

• When bitsmuggler is executed it will search the latest movies ordered by rating
• Write the name of a movie and press enter to search
• Use the up and down keys to navigate the movies table or the subtitles table
• Use Ctrl+n to go to the next page
• Use Ctrl+p to go to the previous page
• Use Ctrl+s to toggle between movies table and subtitles table
  • The subtitle is bound to the movie (if there is no subtitle for the movie, the subtitle table will be empty)
• Use Ctrl+d to add a movie or a subtitle to download
  • The subtitle will be download almost instantly
  • The movie will be added to an internal torrent client which will show the progress and peers connected
• Use Ctrl+r to cancel download
• Use Ctrl+c to exit bitsmuggler

Extra

• The subtitle search is disabled by default. In case is needed, enable it and set the language using the config.toml parameter.
• The subtitle search is bound to the movie. Nonetheless, you can download only the subtitles.
• Only one movie at the time could be downloaded. You can close bitsmuggler and when you open it again It will resume the incomplete download and finish it unless it is canceled by the user.
• The quality selected by default is 1080 but could be modified in the config.toml file. Using 2160, 1080 or 720 (A fallback is used from mayor to minor. Ex: If 2160 is set and not found, it will search 1080 and so on).

Demos and screenshots

Using filters

• order filter could be: latest, oldest, rating, alphabetical, featured, year or likes

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