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Show HN: Watch anything instantaneously, with just a `watch “Star Wreck”`

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There is a program in the unix standard tools (I don't know how these things are called) named 'watch'.

Indeed.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/watch

It's also one of the greatest things ever.

Thanks for the info. If somebody have any cool idea for a new name I'll be happy to hear that.

Node - v8.2.1 OS - Ubuntu 16 This happens on anything that I try to stream (consistently about 5 minutes in) and happened on both Ubuntu and MacOS

(node:26340) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection (rejection id: 2): Error: stdout maxBuffer exceeded (node:26340) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

This should be fixed with the latest update (v1.1.0), do you confirm?

Seems to be good so far! Good job! (I'm now on v1.3.0)

Will have to test this our later. If it works half as good as it shows to, I'm really excited.

I'm the author. I'll be happy to hear your feedback on it :)

watch ? What do you want to watch? Un Chien Andalou

Command failed: ./node_modules/.bin/magnet --rows 10 "Un Chien Andalou"

'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

watch --version

1.1.0

Getting the exact same thing...

Happens in both Powershell and CMD prompt.

Node -v 8.4.0 x64 Win 10 Pro

This should have been fixed with v1.2.0. Thanks for pointing that out.

I'm running Node 5.5, it doesn't work because of syntax quibbles. You should add the engine requirements to your package.json file so npm would alert the user beforehand.

That's weird, it works on node 5.5.0 in my system. Can you try updating to the latest version (v1.1.0)? Thanks for the suggestion about the engine!

Just ran it and tested it then. Can confirm that it does everything it says on the tin - Just had GOTG2 running in a matter of seconds.

Bravo, this one I'm keeping.

I'm glad to hear this :). I'd recommend an update to version 1.2.0, I've made some improvements.

So, popcorntime-cli?

Yes, basically.

Peerflix[0] has existed for years now. In what ways is this project superior?

https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix [0]

For starters, ease of use?

With Peerflix you need to find your own magnet URL to stream.

With Watch, you can search inside the program.

Watch is almost a superset of peerflix, it allows you to search from within the program. Also, simply typing `watch Star Wreck` is way cooler than going torrent-hunting IMHO.

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