devvratmiglani / Vimmdl

Command Line tool to search and download roms from Vimm's Lair.

Vimm's Lair CLI

Command line tool to search and download roms from Vimm's Lair.

vm-cli allows to search and download roms published by Vimm's Lair through command line interface.

Installation

Aria2 Dependency

Requires Aria2c downloader installed and set in Environment variables (or paste the execuatble in path which is already an environment variable)

#Shhhhh🤫! install scoop then

scoop install aria2

Installing the package

pip install git+https://github.com/devvratmiglani/Vimmdl.git

For linux distributions you can also try pipx to counter the error message error: externally-managed-environment

pipx install git+https://github.com/devvratmiglani/Vimmdl.git

Installing pipx? Documentation is here

Usage

consoles command

List available consoles

vm consoles

search command

Basic usage

vm search genesis sonic

or equivalent alias

vm search GEN sonic

download command

download command takes the rom's webpage as argument(s)

vm download https://vimm.net/vault/9663

for simultaneous downloads

vm download https://vimm.net/vault/70794 https://vimm.net/vault/9663 https://vimm.net/vault/68873