Python Torrent Search and Download (TPB)

This python command line utility will search the pirate bay for a specific search string and pull out the torrent files and download them to your current directory.

by: Daniel Folkes

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1. print “””Pirate Bay Torrent Downloader – Command Line Interface
3. Program Written by: Daniel Folkes
4. website: http://danfolkes.com
5. email: danfolkes @t gmail dot c0m
   
6.         
7.         — Usage —
8.     -a[n] = auto downloads first [n] results (default:10)
9.     -o[/path/] = points to the folder where .torrent’s go
10. “””
12. import urllib2
13. import sys
14. autoprint = 0
15. outgoing = “./”
16. searchFor = []
17. for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
18.     print “|”+arg+”|”
19.     if arg[:2] == “-a”:
20.         autoprint = int(arg[2:len(arg)])
21.     elif arg[:2] == “-o”:
22.         outgoing = arg[2:len(arg)]
23.     else:
24.         searchFor.append(arg)
25.     
26. print “Searching The Pirate Bay for: ” + str(searchFor)
28. url = ‘http://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=’
29. o = 0;
30. for ar in searchFor:
31.     if o != 0:
32.         url+=”%20″    
33.     url+=str(ar)
34.     o +=1
35. print “URL: ” + url
36. req = urllib2.Request(url)
37. response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
38. the_page = response.read()
39. results = 15
40. i=0
41. listing = []
42. for line in the_page.split(“<td>”):
43.     if i < results:
44.         if line.count(“.torrent”):
45.             strippedLine = line[9:line.find(“.torrent”)+8]
46.             if autoprint == 0:
47.                 print i, strippedLine[15:]
48.             listing.append(strippedLine)
49.             i+=1
50. if autoprint==0:
51.     download = raw_input(“Which ones to download?(sep by commas) :”).split(‘,’)
52. else:
53.     download = range(0,autoprint)
54. print download
56. for j in download:
57. g = int(j)
58. if (g < results) and (g >=0):
59.         
60.         #— Strip Characters Off
61.         localPath = listing[g]
62.         for c in “.:/%!@#$^&*()_-=+~`[]{}|;’,.”:
63.          localPath = localPath.replace(c,””)
64.         localPath = localPath[(len(localPath)/2):]
65.         localPath += “.torrent”
66.         if outgoing:
67.             localPath = outgoing+localPath
68.         #—
69.         print “Downloading: “+ listing[g] + ” -> ” + str(localPath)
70.         open(localPath, ‘wb’).write(urllib2.urlopen(listing[g]).read())
71.         #import os             #if you want to use wget and have progress bar (remove line before)
72.         #os.system(“wget “+listing[g])     #if you want to use wget and have progress bar
74. print “…Download Complete”