Weboorrents¶
Weboorrents is a console application (part of Weboob) to search torrents on supported trackers (see CapTorrent) and to get .torrent files.
Get Weboorrents¶
This application is a part of Weboob. Download it and install it with:
$ ./setup.py install
For more information about installation of Weboob read this page.
Usage¶
You can run weboorrents 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:
$ weboorrents Welcome to weboorrents Copyright(C) 2010 Romain Bignon 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: gazelle1, gazelle2, piratebay, kickass weboorrents>
Use the help command to see what are available commands.
The first time you launch weboorrents, 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.
To get more information about advanced usage of weboorrents, see the console applications common options.
Search a torrent¶
You can do a research with:
weboorrents> search ass to mouth
Information on a torrent¶
weboorrents> info <# or ID>
Get the .torrent¶
When you have the ID of a torrent, you can get the .torrent file and save it to a file:
weboorrents> getfile <# or ID> FILENAME
If FILENAME is -, the file will be written on stdout. It's usefull to pipe with another program.