CLI.md

CLI

moon_cli.py is the headless front-end. It uses the same extraction layer as the GUI, so a batch containing only fuckingfast.co links does not start a browser; the first datanodes.to link starts one shared Chrome instance when needed.

python moon_cli.py --urls links.txt --output ./downloads

The URL file contains one URL per line. Empty lines and lines beginning with # are ignored.

Arguments

Argument	Type	Default	What it changes
--urls	path	required	Text file containing one URL per line. The CLI exits before a run if the file is missing or has no usable URLs.
--output	path	required	Directory where downloaded files are written. It is created if needed.
--browsers	integer	8	Number of parallel extraction workers. Despite the name, it does not start that many browsers: datanodes uses one shared Chrome instance.
--streams	integer	24	Maximum number of concurrent download streams.
--retries	integer	3	Maximum extraction attempts per URL. Network retries inside one download are separate.
--proxies	path	proxies.txt	Proxy-list file to load. Missing files simply result in no proxies being loaded.

--urls and --output are required. The parser accepts integer values for --browsers, --streams, and --retries; it does not add further CLI-side range validation.

Examples

fuckingfast.co batch

# fuckingfast-links.txt
https://fuckingfast.co/example-a#example-a.zip
https://fuckingfast.co/example-b#example-b.zip

python moon_cli.py \
  --urls fuckingfast-links.txt \
  --output ./downloads/fuckingfast \
  --browsers 8 \
  --streams 24

A batch made only of fuckingfast.co links uses direct HTTP extraction and does not launch Chrome.

datanodes.to batch

# datanodes-links.txt
https://datanodes.to/example-a
https://datanodes.to/example-b

python moon_cli.py \
  --urls datanodes-links.txt \
  --output ./downloads/datanodes \
  --browsers 8 \
  --streams 24

The first datanodes.to link starts one shared Chrome instance. If Turnstile requires a manual solve, wait for it in that browser window; the shared browser and its clearance are reused for the rest of the run.

Mixed batch

# mixed-links.txt
https://fuckingfast.co/example-a#example-a.zip
https://datanodes.to/example-b
https://fuckingfast.co/example-c#example-c.zip

python moon_cli.py \
  --urls mixed-links.txt \
  --output ./downloads/mixed \
  --browsers 12 \
  --streams 32 \
  --retries 3 \
  --proxies ./proxies.txt

The fuckingfast.co entries are extracted without a browser. The datanodes entry causes the shared Chrome instance to start; it is not one browser per worker.

Exit codes

Code	Current behavior
0	The CLI completes normally, including a run in which individual URLs fail, or is interrupted with Ctrl+C. Inspect the final ok and fail counts and failed_links.txt when it is written.
1	The URL file is missing or has no usable URLs, or an unhandled exception reaches main(). In the latter case the CLI writes crash_log.txt beside moon_cli.py.
2	argparse rejects command-line usage, such as missing required arguments or a non-integer value for an integer argument.

After a normal run, the CLI writes moontech_cli_*.log and moontech_cli_*.json beside moon_cli.py, not inside --output. If any URL exhausts its attempts, it also writes failed_links.txt there.

Relationship to GUI settings

CLI argument	GUI setting	Notes
--urls	link editor	Both supply the input links.
--output	output-folder picker	Both select where downloaded files are written.
--browsers	Extractors	Both control parallel extraction workers.
--streams	DL streams	Both limit concurrent downloads.
--retries	Retries	Both control extraction retries.
--proxies	—	The CLI reads a proxy-list file; it is not a GUI panel setting.

The CLI does not expose GUI Pages, Captcha s, Chrome, or API key controls as command-line flags. It reads the same extraction-related environment variables directly; see Configuration for their current names and defaults.