Another tool in the war on anti-piracy is torrext, a free torrent metadata service.

How it works is you upload a torrent to it, or provide a URL to a torrent on say mininova, and torrext will extract the data from the torrent file and save it to a page under the torrents info_hash.

The data it extracts looks to be the created date, comment, and the files in the torrent. If it was uploaded to torrext via a URL from mininova it will provide the link to the torrent file as well. Plus because the info_hash is unique to every torrent, you can add a URL for a torrent from thepiratebay, mininova and torrage and it will add the download links for each site. REDUNDANCY!

The best thing is, the site hosts no torrents, no trackers, and the database isn’t searchable.

Except by Google. Because they have the most recent torrent URLs listed on the main page the Google spider can access and index torrent data that is on torrext. So if you wanted to search for a torrent on torrext you can use google… like so:

Video files? “.avi” site:torrext.appspot.com
ISO files? “.iso” site:torrext.appspot.com
Videos of Megan Fox? “megan fox” “.avi” site:torrext.appspot.com
How bout EZTV releases? “EZTV” site:torrext.appspot.com
Liberal talk shows? (”the daily show”|”the colbert report”) site:torrext.appspot.com

Google has indexed all the files in the torrent data it finds on torrext so in a way its a bit better. However it does not show the number of seeders or leechers – but I may make a script to scrape the trackers to tell you. Watch this space.

A mate of mine needed a link extractor for his hotfile.com account so that he could drop a bunch of download page links in and get the premium links to the actual file back, all in a single page, or file. From that page or file he can load them into his download program. These are all legit links btw, no illegal shit.

Anyways I made a bot that has a form to start with where you dump your download urls. Then it goes to the hotfile site, logs in with the given user credentials, runs through each link that the bot was given, and extracts the premium download URL to the file. Then it either prints the links to the page OR it saves the links into a files.txt in the web folder and forces a download in the browser.

The manual way to do that is go to every hotfile.com download link, click on the download file button to start the download, and repeat for every download url you have. This you can throw 50 hotfile.com download links in the form, hit go and it will give you all the premium download links at once. It probably breaks the hotfile terms and services so you could put your account in jeopardy (not my fault) but I don’t use the script, I just solved a problem.

Here’s the code for it if anyone wants to use it. Would be cool if you let me know if it was useful as well
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