aaasen / get_torrent

An API for sharing

GetTorrent: an API for sharing

GetTorrent is an API for peer to peer file sharing sites like The Pirate Bay.

File sharing sites are awesome, but they're a total pain for developers. Some have terribly formatted HTML, others protect from robots. To make it worse (for devs at least), there are tons of them.

GetTorrent takes care of these inconsistencies so you don't have to

>>> tpb = GetTorrent('../../sources/pirate_bay.json')
>>> tpb.search('ubuntu', sort='seeders')
{
	'title': 'Ubuntu 12.10',
	'seeders': '64',
	'leechers': '8',
	'magnet': 'magnet:...',
	'url': '/torrent/...'
}
...

Magic.

get_torrent's Issues

Fetch available torrent data from search page

Right now, fetching data like seeders, leechers, and magnet link requires fetching the torrent's page. This is not necessary.

Create a GetTorrent Package

And post it on PyPi. This will make creating web interfaces much easier and ensure modularity.

Generalize Parsing

TPB has easy to parse comments. KAT has very difficult to parse comments, but ratings for every torrent.

This goes along with #2; parsing must be fail-safe and generalized. Maybe there shouldn't even be a search function be default. It's something to investigate after #2, because uniform data from every site just isn't possible.

Graceful Failure

Right now, if a source doesn't have a certain parser, everything breaks. Instead, it should gracefully fail and return a placeholder value like None

Likewise, everything breaks if a parser fails. An error message or ommission would be a lot better.