Spongebob-CLI – Watch classic spongebob from the terminal

I don’t think that necessarily makes it legal - they might be liable for "contributory copyright infringement”, which occurs if you deliberately and knowingly link to copyrighted materials and encourage/enable others to infringe.

See http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/04-480.ZO.html

(Eg torrent sites are also illegal in many countries despite merely linking to copyrighted materials)

AlexSW3• 4 years ago

I had a quick look at the code to see how it worked and I feel like I'm being daft; where is line 28 getting the variable `soup` from?

https://github.com/trakBan/spongebob-cli/blob/eac7eded094a48...

bobowzki• 4 years ago

It's introduced into the global scope on line 82. Too me this seems a bit obfuscated.

AlexSW3• 4 years ago

Ah good spot, thanks! I'd agree with you there...

wilj• 4 years ago

https://github.com/trakBan/spongebob-cli/blob/eac7eded094a48...

AlexSW3• 4 years ago

That's a local variable

proxycon• 4 years ago

bit dissapointing that it doesn't actually render video into the terminal, just launches a video player

ginko2• 4 years ago

Adding "--vo=tct" after "mpv" in the argument list in line 55 of spongebob-cli should do the trick (haven't tested it myself).

https://github.com/trakBan/spongebob-cli/blob/main/spongebob...

edit: yep, works. You might also want to add "--quiet" to get rid of artifacts.

factorymoo• 4 years ago

Linux n00b over here... apologies for the silly question but I can't seem to make this work

I enter spongebob-cli

Then when it prompts me to enter an episode number, I can't seem to get it to play from within the terminal itself

let's say I want to play episode 1:

1 --mpv --vo=tct --quiet

Doesn't seem to work. Any help to get past this would be greatly appreciated

Zhyl2• 4 years ago

Honestly, a terminal based search/browse with media player video would be my ideal replacement for youtube and similar

aaaaaaaaata• 4 years ago

look for projects that use youtube-dl

hiccuphippo• 4 years ago

I remember watching the soccer world cup like that years ago, just connecting with netcat. It received the "video" 5 seconds earlier than my TV.

swayvil• 4 years ago

First and second season, great. Third season, good and bad. After that, poo. And how many seasons is it? 10?

yissp• 4 years ago

The original creator (Stephen Hillenburg) left after the third season. As I understand it, he wanted to end the series there, but of course Nickelodeon couldn't resist milking the cash cow.

midwestemo• 4 years ago

The first spongebob movie was supposed to be the finale, which was released after the three seasons.

lostgame• 4 years ago

As cool as this is; I’m a bit surprised that this is trending here with its questionable legality.

I get that it’s not hosting any illegal material, but it’s linking to it, so it’s still pretty sketch.

Neat tool, though…

capableweb3• 4 years ago

I'm not surprised. Hackers tend to gravitate towards "interesting" or "curious" things no matter the legal status. Sci-Hub, ThePirateBay or Swartz downloading documents from JSTOR are all interesting subjects which most hackers would find interesting enough to upvote if it shows up here. If the whole "Encryption is munition" thing would have happened when HN existed, I would have expected that to circulate the frontpage weekly, if not daily.

hatware• 4 years ago

If the whole "Encryption is munition" thing

This never went away, now they're saying encryption is only used by drug traffickers and pedophiles.

Sigh, I was mentored briefly by the lawyer who represented Zimmerman in that case. Was surprised he got away from the crypto space, but I'm sure he was burnt out.

echelon• 4 years ago

In ten years we'll be generating new SpongeBob cartoons from the terminal.

We can already replicate his voice:

https://fakeyou.com/tts/TM:jn4amf60mk58

TTS has lots of room for improvement, but the technology is already widely accessible and easy to deploy. We'll soon have voice conversion with dynamic control of tempo, pitch, timbre, etc.

We have GANs that can generate stills. (this{person,cat,waifu,furry,etc.}doesnotexist.com)

It won't be long before we can generate animated sequences, maintain temporal coherence, and correct for pose and posture.

Animation is going to be wild.

Anybody else working in this space? (Anybody want to be working in this space? Message me!)

Spongebob-CLI – Watch classic spongebob from the terminal

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