# Install cinecli with Homebrew

Browse, inspect, and launch movie torrents directly from your terminal. Version 0.1.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-20.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:cinecli
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cinecli
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:cinecli
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.1.2
- **Source summary:** Browse, inspect, and launch movie torrents directly from your terminal
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/eyeblech/cinecli>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/eyeblech/cinecli>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-20T11:59:38Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- cinecli (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.1.2
## Project history and usage

CineCLI is a Python terminal movie browser that searches YTS, displays movie details, and launches magnet links or downloads torrent files.

### Project history

The official README presents CineCLI as a fast, cross-platform, minimal terminal app built with Python, Typer, Rich, Requests, and the YTS API. Its repository includes Python packaging metadata and Nix flake files.

### Adoption history

Distribution is split across Python packaging, Homebrew, Nix flake usage, and source installs. The README documents pip install, nix run/profile commands, and editable source installs; Homebrew packages version 0.1.2 from the PyPI source distribution.

### How it is used

Documented commands include cinecli search, cinecli watch, and cinecli interactive. CineCLI delegates magnet handling to the operating system's registered magnet-link handler, such as qBittorrent or Transmission.

### Why package nerds care

CineCLI is package-nerd interesting as a young Python CLI that reached several distribution channels quickly: PyPI, Homebrew, Nix flake usage, and GitHub source installs. It also shows the current pattern of terminal apps leaning on Rich and Typer for polished CLI UX.

### Timeline

- 2026: Official README documents pip, Nix flake, source, and terminal command usage.
- 2026: Homebrew packages cinecli 0.1.2 from a Python source distribution.

### Related projects

- YTS API is the movie and torrent data source named by the official README.
- Typer and Rich are the Python CLI and terminal UI libraries named by the official README.
- Nix flake support is documented as a first-class install and run path.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/cinecli.json>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cinecli>
- <https://github.com/eyeblech/cinecli#readme>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for cinecli. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.



## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/cinecli.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/cinecli.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph