gativideo

Minimal TUI app to download YTS movies and opensubtitles subtitles

Caveats

• Rust version 1.88
• It's upon transmission-rpc protocol. So It requires to be active in order to use gativideo.
• This program has been developed on and for Linux following open source philosophy.

Installation

• Using Cargo

cargo install gativideo

• From AUR Arch Linux:

paru -S gativideo

Details

• This program is a TUI wrapper of YTS movies (a.k.a. yify) and opensubtitles to search and download movies and subtitles.
• It uses transmission-rpc protocol. Transmission daemon must be configured in order to use gativideo
  • Transmission configuration
  • Transmission How To
• This program serves itself from crates yts-movies and opensubs
• Multiple movies at the time can be downloaded. You can close gativideo and the downloads still continue.

Usage

Search movie

• Write the name of a movie and press Enter to search
• Use Tab to move focus between elements

Movies table

• Use up or k and down or j keys to navigate the table
• Use l to go to the next page
• Use h to go to the previous page
• Use t to open the torrent files popup table
• Use s to open the subtitles files popup table
• Use Tab to move focus between elements

Popup torrents table

• Use up or k and down or j keys to navigate the table
• Use Enter to start the torrent download
• Use q or Esc to close the popup

Popup subtitles table

• Use up or k and down or j keys to navigate the table
• Use Enter to start the subtitle download
• Use q or Esc to close the popup

Download movies table

• Use up or k and down or j keys to navigate the table

• Use s to toggle start/stop a download

• Use d to delete the download

• Use Tab to move focus between elements

Config example

• Some properties could be define in a file stored as $HOME/.config/gativideo/config.toml default values

[yts]
# Default YTS Host if not set
host = "https://en.yts-official.mx"
# Default download dir "$HOME/Downloads" if not set
download_dir = "/home/user/Downloads" 
# Could be "rating" "oldest" "featured" "year" "likes" or "alphabetical" ("rating" is the default)
order = "rating" 

[opensubs]
# Could be a list of languages ("spanish" is the default if not set)
# All the languages are the available in opensubtitles.org 
languages = [ "spanish", "french" ]
# Ordered by "downloads", "uploaded" or "rating"
order = "downloads" 

[transmission]
# Default Transmission RPC host (this is the default if not set)
host = "http://127.0.0.1:9091/transmission/rpc"
# If transmission rpc requires credentials
username = "your_username"
password = "your_password"

Demos and screenshots

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a081ee6e-b77d-48d6-8b64-a923a441f5bb

Using filters

• year filter could be: from 1920 to 2025
• rating filter could be: from 1 to 9
• order filter could be: latest, oldest, rating, alphabetical, featured, year or likes

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