README.md

popcorn: a command line movie manager

Popcorn is an ncurses-based movie manager for Linux. With it you can:

• Sort/filter/search your movie collection
• Track viewing stats
• Get metadata from OMDB

...all from the terminal.

Dependancies:

• libncurses
• libcurl
• cJSON

Compilation

1. Install all required dependancies
2. Clone this repo with git clone {REPO URL} and cd into it
3. Run make
4. Run the binary

Note: There is no "make install" recipe, but if you want to be able to use popcorn without being in the directory just move it into /usr/bin.

Configuration

Popcorn will by default look in $HOME/.config/popcorn or $XDG_CONFIG_COME for a file called "config". There is an example file provided in share. The current configurable options are:

1. The directiory to find movies in
2. The path to save the database to
3. The default video player
4. An OMDB api key