Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI

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Post by guilhermepontes » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 8:07 AM UTC

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:30 AM UTC

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Post by 07d046 » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:46 AM UTC

A CLI version of Popcorn Time, published using the real life identity of the author? Brave move.

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Post by Buge » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:49 AM UTC

07d046 wrote: post #3

A CLI version of Popcorn Time, published using the real life identity of the author? Brave move.

And using a Hollywood movie as an example? If he wanted to claim "it's just a tool, usable for anything" he should have used something like Big Buck Bunny as the example.

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Post by colinramsay » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:51 AM UTC

This doesn't work for me, because http://thepiratebay.se is hardcoded in the code and that mirror is blocked in my location. I filed an issue.

https://github.com/weslleyaraujo/pirateflix/issues/3

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Post by dkopi » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:51 AM UTC

It seems a lot of the magic behind this comes from Peerflix - a node.js library for streaming torrents.

This is mostly a CLI wrapper for searching piratebay, parsing the results, and then streaming using peerflix. https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix

I'm curious why thepiratebay npm package wasn't used instead: https://github.com/t3chnoboy/thepiratebay

That said, great usage of cheerio for parsing the returned HTML results. I love how it's as simple as running JQuery like commands on the server side.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:52 AM UTC

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Post by empressplay » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:53 AM UTC

07d046 wrote: post #3

A CLI version of Popcorn Time, published using the real life identity of the author? Brave move.

They're in the Netherlands so I suppose they're safe(ish?)

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Post by MoSal » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:53 AM UTC

I'm deeply concerned about popularizing torrent streaming.

A few leechers breaking "rarest-first" might not cause much harm. But if most leechers become streamers, torrents will lose their efficiency in distributing less-popular content.

Transmission implemented a "streaming" feature once, that didn't actually stream. It just stopped fetching pieces "with the same rarity" randomly. They still got too much heat for adding that not very usefull feature. And they reverted the commits soon after.

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Post by amelius » Mon, Apr 04, 2016, 9:56 AM UTC

Buge wrote: post #4

07d046 wrote: post #3

A CLI version of Popcorn Time, published using the real life identity of the author? Brave move.

And using a Hollywood movie as an example? If he wanted to claim "it's just a tool, usable for anything" he should have used something like Big Buck Bunny as the example.

This was just an example to be used by the rightholders of that movie. If you published your own movie, you can substitute the name of your movie in the example. :)