Creating Command Line Torrent Searcher

Its been difficult to search torrents in the web these days. So, I planned to create a torrent searching script using python. First of all, we need asource to scrap the torrents.

I use the following torrent websites:

Review

The Pirate Bay proxies are banned pretty quickly. So, its waste to use them.

Snowfl is great since that website itself scraps torrents from tpb and 1337x etc… But there is no way to provide search arguments in the url.

( Like https://google.com/?q=search+term )

Next option is skytorrents. Darn, It even got rss to search. I planned to use it.

Creation

The base url for rss search is https://skytorrents.to/rss?search=search+term

I tried to parse it using feedparser library in python.

F**k, the seeders and leechers in the rss feed are in the torznab attribute

<torznab:attr name="category" value="movie"/>
<torznab:attr name="category" value="1080"/>
<torznab:attr name="category" value="YiFY"/>
<torznab:attr name="type" value="video"/>
<torznab:attr name="seeders" value="635"/>
<torznab:attr name="peers" value="39"/>
<torznab:attr name="infohash" value="e2e457b2e77128cd20fafd0837bbdb9a4d543578"/>
<torznab:attr name="minimumratio" value="1.0"/>
<torznab:attr name="minimumseedtime" value="172800"/>Copy

which are not parsed by feedparser library.

Sh*t, now I am back to beautiful Soup library to parse the html. Wait for it….. When I tried to parse, I came to know that beautifulsoup also supports parsing the xml(rss). Nice. Now I wrote a script to parse them and display in the terminal. The search argument is parsed using argparse library.

The output is sh*ty, So, I used terminal tables library to get the clean output with the tables.

Output

output

The script is given below.

# Created by Selva <selva@selvasoft.in>
# © Selva
import requests
import argparse
import sys
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from terminaltables import SingleTable
from textwrap import wrap

baseURL = 'https://www.skytorrents.to/rss?search='

# Using in-built argparse library to parse the command line arguments 
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Search torrents from the command line easily.")
parser.add_argument('-i','--items',default=5,help='Number of items to display ( default: 5 )')
parser.add_argument('searchTerm',type=str,help='Search term to search for torrent')
args = parser.parse_args()
# Replacing the blank space(" ") with "+", since the URL doesnt have any blank space
searchTerm = args.searchTerm.replace(' ','+')
num = args.items
r = requests.get(baseURL+searchTerm)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text,'xml')
items = soup.find_all('item')
if len(items)==0:
    print('Item not found!!!')
    sys.exit()

def convertSize(size):
    size = round(size / 1024,2)
    suffix = 'KB'
    if size > 1000:
        size = round(size / 1024,2)
        suffix = 'MB'
    if size > 1000:
        size = round(size / 1024,2)
        suffix = 'GB'    
    if size > 1000:
        size = round(size / 1024,2)
        suffix = 'TB'
    return ( str(size) + ' ' + suffix )

list1 = [ ]
mgntList = [ ]
list1.append(['Index','Title','Date Added','Size','Seeders','Leechers'])
for i in range(int(num)):
    item = items[i]
    tempList = [ ]
    tempList.append(str(i+1))
    tempList.append(item.title.text)
    mgntList.append(item.magneturl.text)
    tempList.append(item.pubDate.text[5:16])
    tempList.append(convertSize(int(item.size.text)))
    seeders = item.find(attrs={'name':'seeders'})
    tempList.append(seeders['value'])
    peers = item.find(attrs={'name':'peers'})
    tempList.append(peers['value'])
    list1.append(tempList)


cuteTable = SingleTable(list1)
max_width = cuteTable.column_max_width(1)
for i in range(1,len(list1)):
    row = list1[i]
    wrappedString = '\n'.join(wrap(row[1], max_width))
    cuteTable.table_data[i][1] = wrappedString +'\n'
    
print(cuteTable.table)
choice = int(input('\nEnter the index--->'))
print('\nThe magnet link is :\n')
print(mgntList[choice])Copy

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