Weboorrents

Weboorrents is a console application able to search for torrents on supported trackers and to download the .torrent files.

It supports the following websites:

Get Weboorrents

This application is part of Weboob. To install it, please 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) 2010-2012 The Weboob 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:

weboorrents>

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 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.

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 download 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 useful to pipe to another program.