External tool: motrix-cli for terminal and AI agent automation

[nufegia]

Hi Motrix community 👋

I recently built a small open-source CLI wrapper for Motrix:

https://github.com/nufegia/motrix-cli

It turns Motrix’s local aria2 JSON-RPC backend into a terminal- and AI-agent-friendly workflow.

The idea was simple:

Motrix already provides a great GUI download experience, but using it reliably from scripts, terminals, or AI coding agents is still a bit awkward. So I made a lightweight CLI layer on top of it.

Features include:

• add downloads from terminal
• list / inspect / pause / resume / remove tasks
• wait until downloads finish
• stable JSON output for automation
• automatic Motrix RPC config discovery on macOS
• reusable Codex skill for AI agents

Example:

motrix-cli add --json "https://example.com/file.zip"
motrix-cli wait --json <gid>

The project is especially designed for workflows involving:

• Codex
• Claude Code
• terminal automation
• MCP / AI agents
• scripting around Motrix

This is not meant to replace Motrix — only to make the existing Motrix ecosystem easier to automate and integrate into modern AI workflows.

Would love to hear thoughts or feedback from Motrix users and maintainers 🙂

[upstairsupstairs33]

https://github.com/upstairsupstairs33/chatgpt-browser-terminal-agent this simple script works with any browser ui based ai like chatgpt.com gemini whatever as long as there is a chat ui this works, no need for api keys anymore, if you dont use chatgpt then youll have to update the selectors for whatever ai ui your using but thats it, 20 bucks a months for an autonomous agent isnt bad api keys are exspensive