CineCLI
Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal
Details
- External ID
- 46362655
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- CineCLI
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 23, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 348
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9713740458015268
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HNI built CineCLI — a cross-platform terminal app to browse movies, view details, and open torrents directly in your system torrent client.Features: - Search movies from the terminal - Rich UI with ratings, runtime, genres - Interactive & non-interactive modes - Magnet handling via system default client - Linux/macOS/Windows support - No ads, no trackingGitHub: https://github.com/eyeblech/cinecli PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/cinecli/Would love feedback from terminal + Python folks
Enrichment
- Theme
- media discovery and streaming tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal movie browser and torrent client
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes CineCLI is a terminal interface (TUI) that queries public movie APIs/scrapers and hands magnet URLs off to the operating system's default torrent application.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: YTS API, *arr stack with Jellyfin, Popcorn Time, IMDB Top 250, cinecli
Concerns raised: Not production ready - poorly tested and validated, Legal risks depending on content being torrented, Torrent participants don't seed complete files, Buggy and rough around the edges, Networked software doesn't work forever like emulation
Feature requests: Stream range requests from torrents with HTTP support, Help users discover what to watch, Decentralized hosting via GitHub/Radicle
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 37 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 38 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 24 days after the earliest competitor.
- Cineza · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- CineSocial · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Stremio_CLI · github · 2026-09-22 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- lengyi-movielan · github · 2026-09-10 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- HN-Stories · hn · 2026-02-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Cine-wall · github · 2026-09-29 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- PIXU · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Aainix · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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