Introducing: http://getstrike.net/torrents/

 It’s that time of the year again, spring, where I attempt to create a new product that will help make everyone happier. This year I decided with my new found love for hoarding mass amounts of data, that i’d create something I thought was very much needed; a modern torrent search engine. 

    When I say modern I’m not just referring to aesthetics, anyone can make a web 2.0 page with all the latest trends. What I mean is a search engine that does all the hard work for you, one that knows you don’t want 6700 junk torrents with a “similar” string in them, one that can realize that tv show you just looked up has a new episode and should give it to you first, one that can tell you all the relevant information you need to know about it, quickly without redirecting you a billion times. 

   But that is simply the start of what I’m trying to deliver with Strike Search, Strike itself is a compilation of various FOSS I’ve created to help make a better Home Theater, this search had to allow the end user to quickly get their desired torrent on any device. There is no need for word clouds or similar torrents, you as the user know what you’re looking for. Its the engines job to figure out the best result. 

   From the start I knew this would be a completely non-profit project, so sorry to all users, but there won’t be any hot singles in your area or fake download buttons filled with malware. I wanted to offer the cleanest experience I could for users, that is to say, while also keeping them safe.

   Which brings us to privacy, our policy is straight forward, as all should be.

   Any information that is logged is discarded within 24 hours, logged information is simply for engine learning reasons, nothing more, a local cache of common terms to help with the directing of results. Similar to stopwords.

    For all the developers out there, I haven’t forgotten about you, similar to my last major project Netflix Roulette where I attempted to create an alternative to the Netflix API, I’ve designed a robust API here for developers who need to seek information on torrents. You’ll be able to find a full write up on it over here: http://getstrike.net/api/

   But lets go over a few key points of features it offers.

If you just want to get the information of a single torrent based on its hash do the following

http://getstrike.net/api/torrents/info/?hashes=B425907E5755031BDA4A8D1B6DCCACA97DA14C04

You will receive the following JSON output

[{"results":1,"statuscode":200,"responsetime":0.0012},[{"torrent_hash":"B425907E5755031BDA4A8D1B6DCCACA97DA14C04","torrent_title":"Arch Linux 2015.01.01 (x86\/x64)","torrent_category":"Applications","sub_category":"","seeds":645,"leeches":13,"file_count":1,"size":"587 MB","upload_date":"Jan  6, 2015","uploader_username":"The_Doctor-","file_info":[{"file_names":["archlinux-2015.01.01-dual.iso"],"file_lengths":[615514112]}]}]]

Now if you require more torrents, simply place a comma and continue adding more hashes, the maximum is 50 a query. Duplicates are removed automatically by the API.

Go ahead and send this query

http://getstrike.net/api/torrents/info/?hashes=B425907E5755031BDA4A8D1B6DCCACA97DA14C04,5D4FD5A64E436A831383773F85FB38B888B9ECC9

You will receive yet another json object, this one containing two torrent arrays

[{"results":2,"statuscode":200,"responsetime":0.0013},[{"torrent_hash":"5d4fd5a64e436a831383773f85fb38b888b9ecc9","torrent_title":"FreeBSD 7.1 i386.DVD.iso","torrent_category":"Applications","sub_category":"","seeds":7,"leeches":0,"file_count":1,"size":"2.09 GB","upload_date":"Jan  5, 2009","uploader_username":"eauvision","file_info":[{"file_names":["7.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1\\7.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso"],"file_lengths":[2239475712]}]},{"torrent_hash":"B425907E5755031BDA4A8D1B6DCCACA97DA14C04","torrent_title":"Arch Linux 2015.01.01 (x86\/x64)","torrent_category":"Applications","sub_category":"","seeds":645,"leeches":13,"file_count":1,"size":"587 MB","upload_date":"Jan  6, 2015","uploader_username":"The_Doctor-","file_info":[{"file_names":["archlinux-2015.01.01-dual.iso"],"file_lengths":[615514112]}]}]]

If you want more information on the API head over to http://getstrike.net/api/

Thats about all I can say, you can try out Strike Search here

http://getstrike.net/torrents/

Shout outs to http://dmxt.org/portfolio/ for designing the site!

Contact Info:

Email: Andrew@codeusa523.org

Twitter: http://twitter.com/andrewmd5