u20024804 / magnet

Search for a torrent from the command-line and start streaming

magnet

Search. Select. Stream.

magnet is a command-line torrent search scraper for magnet links. It can pass a selected magnet (and additional parameters) through to peerflix to start downloading (and streaming) the search result automatically. Or you could pipe the output from magnet into your preferred torrent utility!

This utility gets search results and magnet links from thepiratebay.org. The responsibility lies upon the user to not download malicious, false or illegal material using this tool.

The search isn't limited to just video, of course!

$ magnet "Ubuntu" 1 --

Usage

Basic

Search:

$ magnet "Night of the Living Dead 1968"
1: Night Of The Living Dead 1968 720p BluRay x264 CtrlHD PublicHD
2: Night Of The Living Dead 1968 720p BRRip x264 x0r
3: Night of the Living Dead 1968 BDRip hV
4: Night Of The Living Dead 1968 1080p Bluray x264 hV N0 RaRs
5: Night Of The Living Dead 1968 720p BDrip x264 AAC V4G

Select:

$ magnet "Night of the Living Dead 1968" 1
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:F17FB68CE756227FCE325D0513157915F5634985&dn=night+of+the+living+dead+1968+720p+brrip+x264+x0r&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337%2Fannounce

Stream:

Supply -- and the magnet is sent to peerflix. All options after -- are passed to peerflix.

$ magnet "Night of the Living Dead 1968" 1 -- --vlc
# this starts downloading the torrent via peerflix

Advanced

More/fewer results

You can choose how many results to show with the --rows option:

$ magnet --rows=10 "Night of the Living Dead 1968"
1: Night of the Living Dead 1968 (1080p, x265, AAC 1.0)
2: George Romero 1968-1985 Night Dawn and Day Of The Living Dead
3: Night of the Living Dead[1968]DvDrip[Eng]-Stealthmaster.avi
4: Night.Of.The.Living.Dead.1968.720p.BluRay.x264-CtrlHD [PublicHD]
5: Night Of The Living Dead 1968 Colorized DVDrip x264-[MULVAcoded]
6: Night of the Living Dead (1968) - In Colour - DivX  [akhiugo]
7: Night Of The Living Dead (Millennium Edition; 1968).avi
8: Night of the Living Dead (1968)
9: Night Of The Living Dead [1968 - 30th Anniversary Edition]
10: Night Of The Living Dead 1968 720p_sujaidr

Download using other torrent clients

You may prefer to use another torrent client using the output from magnet

# rtorrent
$ tr=`magnet "Night of the Living Dead 1968" 1`
$ rtorrent "$tr"

# clipboard (macOS) to paste into a GUI torrent client
$ magnet "Night of the Living Dead 1968" 1 | pbcopy

# clipboard (X on GNU/Linux) to paste into a GUI torrent client
$ magnet "Night of the Living Dead 1968" 1 | xclip -i -sel clipboard

Note that Night of the Living Dead [1968] is in the public domain. Download responsibly.

Installation

npm install -g magnet-cli
# optional, if you want to stream/download using '--' as shown in the Basic Usage section:
npm install -g peerflix