Introduction
I have been a huge anime fan and I have always wanted a way to stream anime directly to my terminal, so that I can access my favorite anime without opening bloated websites like Crunchyroll etc. I have found the solution! I have been using this utility to stream anime for more than a month now and I freaking love it!
Getting Started
To start streaming anime in your command line, you will need the ani-cli cli utility. This is available on github at: https://github.com/pystardust/ani-cli. To get started run the following commands:
git clone "https://github.com/pystardust/ani-cli.git"
sudo cp ani-cli/ani-cli /usr/local/bin
rm -rf ani-cli
If you are using a popular linux distribution, you can check for the package in your respective package repositories.
Before using the script you will need some dependencies. These are already listed in the github page of the project.
mpv: The default media player used.fzf: Fuzzy finder used for selection menusaria2c: Needed for the download feature onlyffmpegcurlgrepsed
Streaming anime
To start streaming anime, just run the ani-cli command and it will give a prompt to search the anime you are looking for. Enter the anime's name and select it from the menu which will popup after pressing Enter.
The rest of the interface is pretty straightforward and can be done pretty.
To look for more stuff you can do, just run the command below:
ani-cli -h
This will print out all the list of commands and even give out some examples at the end which can be pretty useful.