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Show HN: Browse Anime from the Terminal
- trevorhinesley 2y agoWow, this is an incredibly robust CLI. One of the more feature complete (and aesthetically pleasing) terminal UIs I’ve seen. Well done!
- Benex254 2y agothanks
- nunobrito 2y agoI'll very likely never use this because web and android apps are just too comfortably but I've thoroughly enjoyed seeing the level of detail, quality and options available there. One question (and apologies if it was on the documentation), but is it possible to automate to download and archive series for later watching without internet? This is my number #1 usage scenario, mostly getting the fresh chapters and have them locally because they disappear from the URL after some time or I might want to just watch while travelling without internet somewhere. Thank you.
- Benex254 2y agoyeah
- tetris11 2y agoRelated tool: ani-cli https://github.com/pystardust/ani-cli https://github.com/pystardust/ani-cli Has termux builds as well
- Jotalea 2y agoFastAnime is ani-cli but on steroids
- ykonstant 2y agoBenexl, the person who also wrote the beautiful and featureful yt-x for browsing youtube. You can rely on this guy to make a gorgeous terminal UI.
- CapricornNoble 2y agoThanks for mentioning yt-x, I'll give it a try. I'm so tired of YouTube absolutely crushing my CPU usage in Firefox.
- yoavm 2y agoPlease consider changing the Gif in the README to a video. Not only it's a half the size (I just checked), it will also allow people to pause, rewind etc.
- Benex254 2y agowill do
- etaioinshrdlu 2y agoCan someone explain the appeal of cramming what is effectively a GUI into a terminal? This sort of thing has always been popular around here, but I never saw the appeal. The main benefits appear to be usage over SSH, and a certain obscure style due to running in a terminal.
- InkCanon 2y agoI think it's a desire for minimalism. In a world filled with websites saturated with ads, clickbait and constant attention grabs, this is like walking from an overcrowded city street into a Zen garden.
- mecsred 2y agoIt's an app for browsing lists of anime. How is this not a constant stream of attention grabs?
- boterpoes 2y agoWell, if someone opens this app their goal probably is browsing lists of anime, so the attention grabs you're hinting at are intentional, and thus not 'attention grabs' in the sense the parent commenter is talking about.
- mecsred 2y agoYeah that makes a lot of sense, my mistake for posting before coffee.
- hombre_fatal 2y agoAttention grab here surely means something grabbing your attention away from what you're trying to look at.
- boterpoes 2y agoFor me personally, it also has something to do with TUIs feeling more 'snappy' and reliable than many GUIs. For example, when I'm scrolling in Slack to get to previous messages, I'm often looking at blank space while messages load. Or when I open a search engine in Safari, often I cannot type in the search box without clicking on it first. Or in a JetBrains IDE I try to type code but the file navigator still has focus and now I'm using the 'file search' modus which I did not intend to use. I almost never have these issues with TUIs. They're mostly fast and behave like I expect. Can't think of how to explain this better right now. In theory I like GUIs better as you can do a lot more with them, but they disappoint me so often that I often prefer a TUI (or a commandline tool).
- Hoefner 2y agoI think that viewing from the terminal can be convenient when actively using it with zellij, tmux, etc.— when in one pane you're developing, in the second the build is running, and in the third you're watching anime.
- eddd-ddde 2y agoI'll finally have something productive to do while waiting for the project to compile!
- 65 2y agoPerfect for Arch users ;)
- wink 2y agoJust skimming the README, is there actually something inherently special about anime? Or is there some quasi-standard format how you acquire them these days (maybe something with subtitles?) - I think the last anime I played on a computer was still DivX ;) I see mpv, so it's basically a file browser for movie files?
- Arnavion 2y agoIt has some hardcoded ability to download episodes from streaming websites and bittorrent. See references to `AnimeProvider` and the impls under `/fastanime/libs/anime_provider/`. (This might also create problems for hosting this on GH in the first place. Let's see...)
- laconicmatt 2y agoThis is a really cool tool. Will definitely be my go to for downloading anime and then plopping them on my Jellyfin server. May also just replace using Twitch in a browser for background noise, which usually kills resources on my dev machine.
- codenote 2y agoI found it very stylish that you displayed "DEATH NOTE" in the background!
- sacckey 2y agoBecause there are a certain number of people who want to do all work on the terminal, this is a wonderful app for such people.