Warning
This project has been in an unmaintained state for a long while now. I made an announcement on the discord regarding the future of mov-cli a few months ago, now it's time to quote it here on the readme:
... I don't think I'll be maintaining the mov-cli project anymore (including handling issues) going forward, as I'm extremely occupied with life and other work and projects that are more important to me. Mov-cli was actually never really my project, its founder is Poseidon444. The project was later taken by Ananas, then I came in far later into the project.
Anyways, we all began contributing less and less to the project as we used it less and less eventually resulting in the development halting and some leaving the project. Now it's just me and the initial founder of the project left and I really do not have much spare time anymore, and to be completely honest, I also don't have much personal reason to resume with the development of the project in the current way it is.
I do have work in progress plans for a potential reboot of mov-cli but that is at the bottom of my priority list and I'll need a team to maintain many parts of it as I want maintenance to be low. As I cannot promise this, it's better to say I will be stepping away from the project than promise a sequel. This doesn't mean the tool will spontaneously combust. Some plugins should still continue to work.
For now, Goodbye! 👋
~ Goldy
Warning
You may have noticed, development slowing down and halting for a long while.
This is because I and the other contributors sadly no longer have the time to take this project to the next level (v4.5).
This isn't the end, v4.4 may still continue to receive bug fixes here and there, but v4.4 is currently on
feature freeze, so new features will only be added once v4.5 development begins again.
v4.5 is a rewrite.
We are hoping we have the time and motivation to return one day, hopefully with more contributors to help this time.
Note
v4 is constantly changing so be sure to keep the tool and your plugins up to date. Also, I would advise not using it as a library yet as the API still has many breaking changes.
mov-cli is a command line tool with plugin support that streamlines the process of streaming media from the comfort of your terminal; so you can show off to your friends the superiority of the command line. 💪 The tool is sort of a framework that handles metadata, configuration and scraping of the media to be streamed in your media player of choice.
mov-cli is not a piracy tool; in fact, we encourage the opposite through the existence of our plugins mov-cli-files and mov-cli-jellyplex. 🫵 You obtain the media. You pick the plugins.
Tip
For in-depth installation instructions hit the wiki.
- A supported platform:
- python (required, with pip)
- lxml (optional, ⚡ faster scraping)
- fzf (optional but highly recommended)
- mpv (recommended & default media player)
To get running these are all the prerequisites you'll need.
With the prerequisites installed, mov-cli can be installed via the pip command on all platforms with Python version 3.10 or above.
pip install mov-cli -UCheck out the wiki on installation for more in-depth guidance on installing mov-cli.
mov-cli.mp4
mov-cli comes packaged with a CLI interface via the mov-cli command you can use in your respective terminal.
Note
You may notice mov-cli doesn't ship with any scrapers (or previously known as providers) by default, this is because v4 is plugin-based and scrapers are now part of plugins that must be chosen to be installed. Find out how to do so at the wiki.
- Install the plugin of your choice. Visit this wiki page on how to do so and the mov-cli-plugin topic for a list of third-party mov-cli plugins.
pip install mov-cli-youtubeThis is just an example. If you are struggling, visit that wiki page.
- Add the plugin to your config.
mov-cli -eAlternatively, you may also edit by manually opening the config file. See this Wiki page on that.
[mov-cli.plugins]
youtube = "mov-cli-youtube"Check out the wiki for more in-depth explanation.
- Scrape away!
mov-cli -s youtube blender studioThe command above searches for
blender studiowith our youtube plugin, however once again mov-cli is plugin based and there are many of them in the wild. 😉
Pull requests are welcome and appreciated. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.