Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
Castor is a command-line tool that extracts video streams from websites and casts them directly to a TV. It uses headless Chrome and ffmpeg to bypass restrictions and handle media transcoding.
Why it matters
It represents a growing trend of power-user tools designed to circumvent restrictive smart TV ecosystems and proprietary streaming interfaces.
Imagine buying a very nice TV and figuring out it doesn't allow casting from random websites...
Castor is a CLI that extracts video streams from websites, handles format compatibility, and casts to your TV in real time, with optional auto-generated subtitles burned directly into the video.
Run castor cast to browse trending titles, search TMDB, inspect posters and metadata, then cast — without leaving the terminal.
Castor launches a headless Chrome with a randomized browser fingerprint and stealth scripts to hide automation. It listens to all network activity via Chrome DevTools Protocol, captures video streams, then runs an action pipeline: click the page, navigate into the largest iframe, solve Cloudflare Turnstile if detected, and click again as fallback.
This works on most streaming websites but won't beat sophisticated bot protection.
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