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Kuro
The only cli tool you need to watch/download anime/donghua
Kuro streams anime and donghua from your terminal straight into IINA. Search across multiple sites at once, and when one goes down it quietly switches to another. Resume where you left off, skip intros, queue the next episode, and download in parallel.
I watch a lot of donghua, and the sites that carry it have a habit of dying. Not "slow for a week" — actually gone, mid-season, halfway through a series. Every tool I tried was built around a single source, so when that source broke, the tool broke with it and I'd wait for someone to ship a fix.
kuro is my answer to that. It searches several sites at once, and if one is down it just uses another. If a site keeps failing it benches itself and quietly re-checks every half hour. When a site changes its layout, the fix is a config file you can edit yourself — no waiting on a release, no rebuilding anything.
The other thing that bugged me: terminal video tools tend to dump you into a bare player window. kuro hands the stream to IINA, a proper Mac video player. Real playback controls, real playlist, Picture in Picture, all the keyboard shortcuts you already know.
What it does day to day:
- Search once, across every source — results merged, duplicates collapsed
- Picks up where you stopped — to the second, even if you closed the terminal
- Marks what you've watched so you're never guessing which episode you're on
- Queues the next episodes into the player, so ⌘→ moves on without touching the terminal
- Skips openings and endings where the data exists
- Downloads several episodes at once, with progress bars
- Sub or dub, and a quality cap you set once
It's macOS-only, free, MIT-licensed, and installs with brew install surya758/tap/kuro.
kuro doesn't host or store anything — it finds public pages and hands a URL to your player. Which sources you turn on is up to you.
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About Kuro on Product Hunt
“The only cli tool you need to watch/download anime/donghua”
Kuro was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #40 on the daily leaderboard. Kuro streams anime and donghua from your terminal straight into IINA. Search across multiple sites at once, and when one goes down it quietly switches to another. Resume where you left off, skip intros, queue the next episode, and download in parallel.
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Surya kant
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I watch a lot of donghua, and the sites that carry it have a habit of dying. Not "slow for a week" — actually gone, mid-season, halfway through a series. Every tool I tried was built around a single source, so when that source broke, the tool broke with it and I'd wait for someone to ship a fix.
kuro is my answer to that. It searches several sites at once, and if one is down it just uses another. If a site keeps failing it benches itself and quietly re-checks every half hour. When a site changes its layout, the fix is a config file you can edit yourself — no waiting on a release, no rebuilding anything.
The other thing that bugged me: terminal video tools tend to dump you into a bare player window. kuro hands the stream to IINA, a proper Mac video player. Real playback controls, real playlist, Picture in Picture, all the keyboard shortcuts you already know.
What it does day to day:
- Search once, across every source — results merged, duplicates collapsed
- Picks up where you stopped — to the second, even if you closed the terminal
- Marks what you've watched so you're never guessing which episode you're on
- Queues the next episodes into the player, so ⌘→ moves on without touching the terminal
- Skips openings and endings where the data exists
- Downloads several episodes at once, with progress bars
- Sub or dub, and a quality cap you set once
It's macOS-only, free, MIT-licensed, and installs with brew install surya758/tap/kuro.
kuro doesn't host or store anything — it finds public pages and hands a URL to your player. Which sources you turn on is up to you.