kaboussi / botflix

🎥 Stream your favorite movie from the terminal!

Botflix

Botflix is a Python scrapping CLI that combine scrapy and webtorrent in one command for streaming movies from your terminal.

Installation:

For ArchLinux or Arch-based distro:

You can install it manually from AUR repository or use a aur helper like yay or paru.

yay -Syu botflix-git

To run

botflix

botflix is the replacement for the command prefix python3 main.py in this readme. for example python3 main.py config "vlc" will be botflix config "vlc", which is the final step after installation.

For others

Botflix is written in python, and it depends on webtorrent, NodeJS and npm

1. install NodeJS on your machine (read mode).

node --version
v17.9.0 #or higher

2. make sure that you have npm already installed (read more).

npm --version
8.8.0 # or higher

3. now let's install webtorrent (read more).

npm install webtorrent-cli -g
webtorrent --version # 4.0.4 (1.8.16)

Note: if not installed try with sudo privileges.

4. clone the repo in your local machine.

    git clone https://github.com/kaboussi/Botflix && cd Botflix

5. create a virtual environment.

• Beginner Windows users who couldn't set up the virtualenv check this doc.
• Unix Users

python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate

Note: on Debian/Ubuntu systems you will first need to install venv using

sudo apt install python3-venv

6. Install necessary packages.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage:

• First you need to set up a default player.

Note that only vlc and mpv are supported.
If you are a Windows user make sure that you add your player to the PATH. read more

python3 main.py config "vlc"

• If you want to get top movies:

python3 main.py top

• If you want to watch a TV Series:

python3 main.py serie

• If you want to search for a specific movie ("red notice" for example):

python3 main.py search
What movie are you looking for? red notice

• To start watching you can just type the number of the movie in the table.

Contributing:

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement". Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature
3. Commit your Changes git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature
4. Push to the Branch git push origin feature/AmazingFeature Open a Pull Request.

Contributors❤:

License:

MIT
DISCLAIMER

botflix's Issues

cannot import apprun

copy pasted every command and in python3 main.py config "vlc" i get

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ashroy/Softwares/stream-cli/main.py", line 7, in <module>
    from stream_cli.runner import apprun
ImportError: cannot import name 'apprun' from 'stream_cli.runner' (/home/ashroy/Softwares/stream-cli/stream_cli/runner.py)

i get this same error everytime i run this file .

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 704, in urlopen
httplib_response = self._make_request(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 387, in _make_request
self._validate_conn(conn)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 1043, in validate_conn
conn.connect()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 414, in connect
self.sock = ssl_wrap_socket(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/ssl.py", line 449, in ssl_wrap_socket
ssl_sock = ssl_wrap_socket_impl(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/ssl.py", line 493, in _ssl_wrap_socket_impl
return ssl_context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ssl.py", line 512, in wrap_socket
return self.sslsocket_class._create(
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ssl.py", line 1070, in _create
self.do_handshake()
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ssl.py", line 1341, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
ConnectionResetError: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/damn/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 440, in send
resp = conn.urlopen(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 786, in urlopen
retries = retries.increment(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 550, in increment
raise six.reraise(type(error), error, _stacktrace)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/six.py", line 718, in reraise
raise value.with_traceback(tb)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 704, in urlopen
httplib_response = self._make_request(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 387, in _make_request
self._validate_conn(conn)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 1043, in validate_conn
conn.connect()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 414, in connect
self.sock = ssl_wrap_socket(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/ssl.py", line 449, in ssl_wrap_socket
ssl_sock = ssl_wrap_socket_impl(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/ssl.py", line 493, in _ssl_wrap_socket_impl
return ssl_context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=server_hostname)
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ssl.py", line 512, in wrap_socket
return self.sslsocket_class._create(
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ssl.py", line 1070, in _create
self.do_handshake()
File "/usr/lib/python3.10/ssl.py", line 1341, in do_handshake
self._sslobj.do_handshake()
urllib3.exceptions.ProtocolError: ('Connection aborted.', ConnectionResetError(104, 'Connection reset by peer'))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/damn/stream-cli/main.py", line 69, in
app()
File "/home/damn/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/typer/main.py", line 214, in call
return get_command(self)(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/damn/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1130, in call
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/damn/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1055, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/home/damn/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1657, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File "/home/damn/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1404, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "/home/damn/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/click/core.py", line 760, in invoke
return __callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/damn/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/typer/main.py", line 500, in wrapper
return callback(**use_params) # type: ignore
File "/home/damn/stream-cli/main.py", line 19, in top
apprun(TopMoviesSpider, True)
File "/home/damn/stream-cli/src/runner.py", line 43, in apprun
movies = start_scrawling(scraping_class)
File "/home/damn/stream-cli/src/runner.py", line 30, in start_scrawling
response = requests.get("https://www.torrentgalaxy.to/").status_code
File "/home/damn/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 75, in get
return request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs)
File "/home/damn/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 61, in request
return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
File "/home/damn/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 529, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "/home/damn/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 645, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/home/damn/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 501, in send
raise ConnectionError(err, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', ConnectionResetError(104, 'Connection reset by peer'))

Connection refused

getting this problem running python3 main.py and selecting top

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 174, in _new_conn
    conn = connection.create_connection(
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 95, in create_connection
    raise err
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 85, in create_connection
    sock.connect(sa)
ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 111] Connection refused

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 703, in urlopen
    httplib_response = self._make_request(
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 386, in _make_request
    self._validate_conn(conn)
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 1042, in _validate_conn
    conn.connect()
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 358, in connect
    self.sock = conn = self._new_conn()
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 186, in _new_conn
    raise NewConnectionError(
urllib3.exceptions.NewConnectionError: <urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f57355079a0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 489, in send
    resp = conn.urlopen(
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 787, in urlopen
    retries = retries.increment(
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 592, in increment
    raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='www.torrentgalaxy.to', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f57355079a0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused'))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/main.py", line 130, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/main.py", line 87, in main
    get_top(hosts)
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/main.py", line 14, in get_top
    1: apprun(torrent_galaxy()),
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/stream_cli/runner.py", line 51, in apprun
    movies = start_scrawling(scraping_class)
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/stream_cli/runner.py", line 35, in start_scrawling
    response = requests.get("https://www.torrentgalaxy.to/").status_code
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 73, in get
    return request("get", url, params=params, **kwargs)
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/api.py", line 59, in request
    return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 587, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 701, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "/home/elon/stream-cli/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 565, in send
    raise ConnectionError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='www.torrentgalaxy.to', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x7f57355079a0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused'))

using npm 8.15.1; node 18.7.0 and webtorrent 4.1.0 (1.8.26).

love the project concept, thanks in advance

No results displayed, TopMoviesSpider.parse method is never called.

2022-05-05 14:10:28 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Scrapy 2.6.1 started (bot: scrapybot)
2022-05-05 14:10:28 [scrapy.utils.log] INFO: Versions: lxml 4.8.0.0, libxml2 2.9.13, cssselect 1.1.0, parsel 1.6.0, w3lib 1.22.0, Twisted 22.4.0, Python 3.10.4 (main, Mar 24 2022, 13:07:27) [GCC 11.2.0], pyOpenSSL 22.0.0 (OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022), cryptography 37.0.1, Platform Linux-5.17.0-1-amd64-x86_64-with-glibc2.33
2022-05-05 14:10:28 [scrapy.crawler] INFO: Overridden settings:
{}
2022-05-05 14:10:28 [scrapy.utils.log] DEBUG: Using reactor: twisted.internet.epollreactor.EPollReactor
2022-05-05 14:10:28 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet Password: 91c143582ecd5828
2022-05-05 14:10:28 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled extensions:
['scrapy.extensions.corestats.CoreStats',
 'scrapy.extensions.telnet.TelnetConsole',
 'scrapy.extensions.memusage.MemoryUsage',
 'scrapy.extensions.logstats.LogStats']
2022-05-05 14:10:28 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled downloader middlewares:
['scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpauth.HttpAuthMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.downloadtimeout.DownloadTimeoutMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.defaultheaders.DefaultHeadersMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.useragent.UserAgentMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.retry.RetryMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.redirect.MetaRefreshMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpcompression.HttpCompressionMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.redirect.RedirectMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.cookies.CookiesMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpproxy.HttpProxyMiddleware',
 'scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.stats.DownloaderStats']
2022-05-05 14:10:28 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled spider middlewares:
['scrapy.spidermiddlewares.httperror.HttpErrorMiddleware',
 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.offsite.OffsiteMiddleware',
 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.referer.RefererMiddleware',
 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.urllength.UrlLengthMiddleware',
 'scrapy.spidermiddlewares.depth.DepthMiddleware']
2022-05-05 14:10:28 [scrapy.middleware] INFO: Enabled item pipelines:
[]
2022-05-05 14:10:28 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider opened
2022-05-05 14:10:28 [scrapy.extensions.logstats] INFO: Crawled 0 pages (at 0 pages/min), scraped 0 items (at 0 items/min)
2022-05-05 14:10:28 [scrapy.extensions.telnet] INFO: Telnet console listening on 127.0.0.1:6023
2022-05-05 14:10:29 [scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.retry] DEBUG: Retrying <GET https://torrentgalaxy.to/> (failed 1 times): [<twisted.python.failure.Failure OpenSSL.SSL.Error: [('SSL routines', '', 'unexpected eof while reading')]>]
2022-05-05 14:10:29 [scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.retry] DEBUG: Retrying <GET https://torrentgalaxy.to/> (failed 2 times): [<twisted.python.failure.Failure OpenSSL.SSL.Error: [('SSL routines', '', 'unexpected eof while reading')]>]
2022-05-05 14:10:29 [scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.retry] ERROR: Gave up retrying <GET https://torrentgalaxy.to/> (failed 3 times): [<twisted.python.failure.Failure OpenSSL.SSL.Error: [('SSL routines', '', 'unexpected eof while reading')]>]
2022-05-05 14:10:29 [scrapy.core.scraper] ERROR: Error downloading <GET https://torrentgalaxy.to/>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/aquib/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/scrapy/core/downloader/middleware.py", line 49, in process_request
    return (yield download_func(request=request, spider=spider))
twisted.web._newclient.ResponseNeverReceived: [<twisted.python.failure.Failure OpenSSL.SSL.Error: [('SSL routines', '', 'unexpected eof while reading')]>]
2022-05-05 14:10:29 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Closing spider (finished)
2022-05-05 14:10:29 [scrapy.statscollectors] INFO: Dumping Scrapy stats:
{'downloader/exception_count': 3,
 'downloader/exception_type_count/twisted.web._newclient.ResponseNeverReceived': 3,
 'downloader/request_bytes': 648,
 'downloader/request_count': 3,
 'downloader/request_method_count/GET': 3,
 'elapsed_time_seconds': 0.881984,
 'finish_reason': 'finished',
 'finish_time': datetime.datetime(2022, 5, 5, 8, 40, 29, 711889),
 'log_count/DEBUG': 3,
 'log_count/ERROR': 2,
 'log_count/INFO': 10,
 'memusage/max': 62857216,
 'memusage/startup': 62857216,
 'retry/count': 2,
 'retry/max_reached': 1,
 'retry/reason_count/twisted.web._newclient.ResponseNeverReceived': 2,
 'scheduler/dequeued': 3,
 'scheduler/dequeued/memory': 3,
 'scheduler/enqueued': 3,
 'scheduler/enqueued/memory': 3,
 'start_time': datetime.datetime(2022, 5, 5, 8, 40, 28, 829905)}
2022-05-05 14:10:29 [scrapy.core.engine] INFO: Spider closed (finished)

[NOT AN ISSUE] Where does movies go?

after i've watched a movie, where does the file go ? is it deleted or stored in a specific folder ?

Also, THIS script is BEAUTIFUL ! in a long time i haven't seen a piece of python script so awesome, Keep it up !

Insufficient arch documentation

Installed botflix-git via yay. In readme its written 'set configuration first' - which configuration? i thought it means setting the default player, but the command given to do that failed.
So i am stuck now on installation.

After selecting option number from top list, movie is not playing

After selecting the option number from the top list, the movie is not playing.

Bug error when search for certain movies

it can't show the result if there's a conflit between the len of the size and the title
the app is running under a virtualenv

"webtorrent is exiting..."

Running on wsl everything seems to work fine, I set up vlc, but a few seconds after choosing a movie it shows me the message "webtorrent is exiting...". I can't seem to stream any movie.... Every requirement is satisfied and vlc is installed. I'm using Xming to get acess to the graphical interface on windows.

Feature request: add support for tv shows

It would be really cool to have support for tv shows.

BUG: When no results are returned, it gives a error that the site could not be accesed

this is the exact error:

Unable to connect to torrent provider. Please use vpn. Exiting...

reproduce it by searching for something random

AUR build error

#47 @aurkaxi

Update platform support in readme

VLC doesnt open, console just outputs errors without scrolling all the way down.

Before inputting choice

After inputting choice

Check for other players

• Check for multiple players in system if exists play from them or ask to play from them

Windows support

After the last update windows is no longer supported,

VLC not detected

the program cannot identify VLC

Add Tor connectivity

would be nice to add Tor connectivity to the app in order to avoid restrictions in some countries

Which site does this use

Also can you add it to the readme?

Windows support

Currently on my windows 11 laptop the venv creation does not work.

when trying to play a movie get the message webtorrent is exiting...

basically title, everything works up to the point until I choose an option. The only thing is that when going through the requirments the PyDispactcher gave an error, but I installed it after so when running the requirments everything is satisfied.

Import error

No such file or directory

Got this error when running python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate.

I'm using windows 10 and running the command using Git Bash console.

ModuleNotFound error: No module called "scrapy"

Getting the following error when trying to set VLC as the player. (NOTE: I am using windows 10 and i have already run the requirements.txt file)

Update README

add new instructions to use the app

Change `Unable to connect to torrent provider...` error if movie not found

There's an issue with the Unable to connect to torrent provider. Please use vpn. Exiting... message.
It is displayed even if the crawler didn't find the movie (for example, looking for a fictional movie name).

I suggest adding a ping to the website before displaying the message to check whether it's a connection issue or the movie is not found, then display a message accordingly.

The code to change:

if spider_class.output == []:
        utils.clear_screen()
        sys.exit(
            "\033[91mUnable to connect to torrent provider. Please use vpn. Exiting...\033[0m"
        )

blank terminal screen and nothing happens when running botflix

after running botflix config "mpv" i end up with a blank terminal screen with nothing on it. After ctrl-c i get following logs - http://0x0.st/HVbx.txt

I can connect to https://www.torrentgalaxy.to/ from my browser so its likely not connectivity issues. Also i don't see any network traffic appearing while im starnig at that blank screen.
i waited like 5 minutes, nothing happened.

aur package doesn't install all needed python modules

installed botflix package from aur, when trying to run botflix config"mpv" i first get 'missing rich module', ok, installed aur python-rich, then trying to run same config command, get 'missing simple_term_menu' , installed python-simple-term-menu', now i get 'no module named scrapy'

Maybe something wrong with aur botflix package? i don't thiink it should be like that.

test the app on macos and windows

the app is tested under a linux machine, looking forward for feedbacks from windows and osx users