nyaa-tui

Small scraping project to play around with rust.
Scrapes nyaa.si and allows you to download files from there using aria2.
only tested for the linux operating system.

Install

From source

This requires you to have cargo set-up on your system.
Either use your package manager to install rustup, or follow the official rust Getting started

git clone https://github.com/woolw/nyaa-tui.git
cd nyaa-tui/
cargo run --release

Binary

You can find the latest binary here.
After you downloaded the binary, you can execute it from the terminal:

chmod +x nyaa-tui
./nyaa-tui

Or make it executable from everywhere:

chmod +x nyaa-tui
sudo cp nyaa-tui /usr/local/bin/

Package

nyaa-tui is now available in the AUR

yay -S nyaa-tui

Uninstall

details

• From source
  Just delete the cloned folder.

• Binary

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/nyaa-tui

• AUR

yay -R nyaa-tui

Usage

Info

Normal execution
This will download all content to the execution-directory:

nyaa-tui

If you want to set the download location to another directory, use the --dir= flag followed by the full path:

nyaa-tui --dir=${HOME}/Downloads

Crates used

• crossterm (crates.io | github)
• ratatui (crates.io | github)
• reqwest (crates.io | github)
• reqwest-retry (crates.io | github)
• reqwest-middleware (crates.io | github)
• tokio (crates.io | github)
• unhtml (crates.io | github)
• serde (crates.io | github)
• serde_json (crates.io | github)
• dirs (crates.io | github)

Dependencies

• openssl
• aria2

Disclaimer

read the disclaimer here