animdl vs magnet-player

animdl

A highly efficient, fast, powerful and light-weight anime downloader and streamer for your favorite anime. (by justfoolingaround)

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magnet-player

:movie_camera: A place for streaming torrents directly from your browser (by ferrolho)

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animdl		magnet-player
	Project
6	Mentions	3
1,201	Stars	489
-	Growth	-
7.2	Activity	3.8
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
Python	Language	JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

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animdl

Posts with mentions or reviews of animdl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.

Does anyone have anime websites recommendations without ads?
2 projects | /r/anime | 10 Jul 2023

If you're tech-savvy, you can try animdl, which is a command line tool. No browser, no ads. To directly stream with the default provider AllAnime: animdl stream 'Your Anime Name'
Farewell
3 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 28 Dec 2022

Animdl (python-based) exists as a replacement. And there are multiple sources. pip install animdl
Deduplicate Frames in Anime?
1 project | /r/ffmpeg | 31 May 2022

Is it too late to just download the anime? If not you might want to use animdl to download the anime, avoiding recording and conversion.
Search and Stream torrent in your terminal
14 projects | /r/commandline | 14 Apr 2022
How to make python project runnable in any terminal?
1 project | /r/learnpython | 22 Jan 2022

Or something like this project.
[Guide] How to download videos from Vidstream, Streamtape & MP4Upload servers. Alternative way to download videos since the download button has been removed until further notice.
1 project | /r/9anime | 5 Jul 2021

It seems like you guys haven't heard about anim dl but if you are comfortable using it then all of this is just redundant.

magnet-player

Posts with mentions or reviews of magnet-player. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-05.

Netflix: Piracy Is Difficult to Compete Against and Growing Rapidly
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2024

Not sure - did Popcorn Time ever allow streaming torrents through the browser itself? Some torrent sites today have a streaming section where you can watch torrent videos right in the browser itself. Check out https://ferrolho.github.io/magnet-player/ for an example of this.
Best current way to stream torrents inside chrome?
3 projects | /r/Piracy | 11 Dec 2023

these, but they won't hide your IP so you probably will need to use them with a VPN - https://instant.io/ - https://btorrent.xyz/ - https://ferrolho.github.io/magnet-player/
Search and Stream torrent in your terminal
14 projects | /r/commandline | 14 Apr 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing animdl and magnet-player you can also consider the following projects:

Monkey-DL (Anime Downloader) - Bulk download your favourite anime episodes from your favourite anime websites

web-torrent-cli

ani-cli - A cli tool to browse and play anime

magnet - Get a torrent's magnet link from CLI and download using qbittorrent

anime-downloader - A simple but powerful anime downloader and streamer.

torrodle - ⚡️ A magnet link scraper for streaming videos (movies, tv shows, anime, porn) along with subtitles.

4Anime-sama - A batch download link generator for 4anime.to.

eivom-cli - Simple Script that can watch movies via Command Line

PyInstaLive - Python script to download Instagram livestreams.

KickFlix-cli - A command-line based, minimal torrent streaming client made using Python and Webtorrent-cli. Stream your favorite shows straight from the command line.