Videobox is a Python web app that lets you discover and download the latest TV series without annoying ads, tracking scripts, and crypto mining stuff.
Videobox requires the Python 3 programming language to be installed on your machine. If you are not familiar with it please refer to the official Python's download page for more information.
To check if you have Python installed type the following after in your terminal prompt ($):
$ python --version
Python 3.9.6
Any Python version starting from 3.9 should run Videobox just fine.
Note: Videobox is a BitTorrent client so it can download series episodes without any other software. Additionally you can use your favourite BitTorrent client (like uTorrent, Transmission, etc.) with magnet links.
You can install Videobox along with the main Python installation of your machine or in so-called "virtual environment", which is the recommended approach, since its dependencies may clash with packages you have already installed. Learn more about virtual environments.
Install or update Videobox from PyPI via the Python pip utility. Again, type the following command in your terminal:
$ python -m pip install -U videobox
You use Videobox via its web interface. To access it, start the videobox command on the terminal and point the web browser to the given URL:
$ videobox
Videobox has started. Point your browser to http://localhost:8080 to use the web interface.
Attempt to sync library... done, added 157 torrents.
Update swarm information... done, updated 1000 torrents.
Update completed, press CTRL+C to quit.
At startup Videobox updates its library and will attempt to do it again periodically.
Add --help to list all the available options:
$ videobox --help
Usage: videobox [OPTIONS]
Options:
--host TEXT Hostname or IP address on which to listen. Default is
0.0.0.0, which means "all IP addresses on this host".
--port INTEGER TCP port on which to listen, default is 8080
--help Show this message and exit.
Don't miss the wiki section with contains developer documentation and in-depth information about using Videobox. If your are interested in hacking the source code or contribute to the project see the contributing document.
This is a rough plan of what I would like to implement in the upcoming releases:
- 0.8.x: Automatic episodes download.
- 0.9: Support for "complete season" torrents.
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