MAL-Cli

🎌 A fast, keyboard-driven terminal client for MyAnimeList – built with Rust and Ratatui.

Note:

• for rendering images use a gpu-enhanced terminal like kitty, and for windows use windows terminal >1.22

Demo:

Detail page

INSTALLATION:

ArchLinux:

yay -S mal-cli

using cargo:

cargo install mal-cli-rs

Debian-based:

download the package from last release and run:

sudo dpkg -i <installed-packege>

release section can be found here here

windows/ macos / musl:

download binaries from release section and run directly otherwise use cargo

HOW TO GET CLIENT ID:

visit mal and if you get an error, go to your profile -> profile settings -> api -> create

Main keys:

• [s]: switching/opening popups
• [r]: opening popups (when s does the switching)
• [Ctrl+p]: forward navigation
• [Esc]: backward navigation

Debug:

in $HOME/.config/mal-tui/config.yml file: set show_logger to true set log_level to INFO

Aknowledgement:

• this repo was forked from SaeedAnas/mal-cli (last commit 5 years ago)

TODO:

• add help section
• add delete entry endpoint
• fix double click on windows