woob torrent

Console application able to search for torrents on supported trackers and to download the .torrent files.

It supports the following websites:

Get woob torrent

This application is part of woob. To install it, please read this page.

Usage

You can run woob torrent without any parameter to get an interactive prompt, or specify a command to run it directly and exit just after.

In this page we will use the interactive mode:

$ woob torrent
Welcome to woob torrent

Copyright(C) 2010-2021 The woob Team
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.

Type "help" to display available commands.

Loaded backends:

woob torrent>

Use the help command to see what are the available commands.

For more information about common options of console applications, read this documentation.

The first time you launch woob torrent, it will ask you what backends you want to add and configure. You can also use the backends command to manage them, and to enable only specific backends.

Search a torrent

You can do a research with:

torrent> search ass to mouth

Example:

torrent> search coluche
 1 — Coluche integrale 7 CD (piratebay)
           373.0MB   (Seed:   2 / Leech:   0)
 2 — Coluche 1faux (3 CD)et best off (3CD).French DVDRiP.avi.[L-S79] (piratebay)
            4.1 GB   (Seed:   2 / Leech:   0)
 3 — Coluche.journal.1faux.Volume3.dvd.fr.st.avi (piratebay)
           535.7MB   (Seed:   1 / Leech:   0)
 4 — Coluche.journal.1faux.volume1.dvd.fr.st.avi (piratebay)
           527.1MB   (Seed:   1 / Leech:   0)
 5 — Coluche - Ses plus grands sketches - CD1 (piratebay)
           700.6MB   (Seed:   1 / Leech:   1)
 6 — Coluche - L'integrale [7CD] (kickass)
           444.8MB   (Seed:  47 / Leech:   6)
 7 — La Face Cachée de Coluche (un jour un destin) (kickass)
           700.0MB   (Seed:   8 / Leech:   1)
 8 — Coluche - Ses plus grands sketches - CD1 (kickass)
           700.6MB   (Seed:   4 / Leech:   1)
 9 — Coluche - Ses plus grands sketches - CD2 (kickass)
           700.6MB   (Seed:   3 / Leech:   0)
15 — Coluche 1faux (3 CD)et best off (3CD).French DVDRiP.avi.[L-S79] (kickass)
            4.1 GB   (Seed:   3 / Leech:   2)

Information on a torrent

torrent> info <# or ID>

For example, you can use the number shown in the previous search result:

Coluche.journal.1faux.Volume3.dvd.fr.st.avi
ID: 4631935@piratebay
Size: 535.7MB
Seeders: 1
Leechers: 0
URL: http://cdn3.adexprts.com/lp/?s=tpb&ad=anon&name=Q29sdWNoZS5qb3VybmFsLjFmYXV4LlZvbHVtZTMuZHZkLmZyLnN0LmF2aQ==
Magnet URL: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e9412565f1d7eeac7af6b982c491b98da09acb8b&dn=Coluche.journal.1faux.Volume3.dvd.fr.st.avi&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337

Description
Ancien journal satirique et comique de Canal+ presente par coluche.

Get the .torrent

When you have the ID of a torrent, you can download the .torrent file and save it to a file:

torrent> getfile <# or ID> FILENAME

If FILENAME is -, the file will be written on stdout. It’s useful to pipe to another program.

You can use to send it directly to rtorrent:

torrent> getfile 5 /home/rtorrent/Watch/8/
torrent>

Get the magnet

There is no command dedicated to get the magnet, but with selectors you can use something like that:

$ woob torrent info 4631935@piratebay -s magnet --no-keys -f multiline