Popcorn Time for the Command Line

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Popcorn Time for the Command Line

Install

1. Requires installed VLC
2. Requires installed Node.js
3. npm install -g coffeescript cheerio peerflix

Tested on Mac only.

Usage

play Game of Thrones S04E07
play Arrow S02E07
play Inception

play.coffee

#!/usr/bin/env coffee
#

http = require('http')
cheerio = require('cheerio')
spawn = require('child_process').spawn


searchTerm = process.argv[2..-1].join(' ')


url = "http://thepiratebay.se/search/#{encodeURIComponent(searchTerm)}"
req = http.get url, (res) ->
  res.setEncoding("utf8")
  content = ""

  res.on "data", (chunk) ->
    content += chunk

  res.on "end", ->
    $ = cheerio.load(content)
    magnetUri = $("table#searchResult a[href^=magnet]").first().attr("href")

    if magnetUri
      peerflix = spawn("peerflix", [magnetUri, "--vlc"], stdio: "inherit")
    else
      process.exit 1


req.end()