Additional Public Torrent Trackers Required

The options for torrent indexers are pathetic. With KAT gone, RARBG is the only good source. HDBitz and Torrentleech are good but most people can’t use them without getting an invite. Would be nice if a few more public trackers got added.

I myself have access to HDBitz and Torrentleech but my noob friends (and most people who aren’t heavy users) don’t. Adding trackers like TPB would be great for the average joe. At least for the sake of variety. Most release groups operate on public trackers such 4K / HEVC and it would be great to have access to them.

This issue in my opinion is where Sickrage has sonarr beat.

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TPB doesn’t have an API. SR does it by using website scraping, which is hard to maintain and creates additional load for website.

Google Jackett-Public. Which is a proxy that basically does the same, website scraping. It’s an earlier version of Jackett, before it went private-tracker only.

I’m pretty sure the TPB at some point had an API. Might have went down when their site got shut down last year but there definitely is.

Just by doing a simple Google search, I located a Python based api on Github. Its not offical but other tools out there are using it.

Does Couchpotato use scraping?

In regards to Jackett-Public, why hasn’t it been integrated / built in to Sonarr?

That’s a library in python that does the screen scraping required so other applications can use it, it’s not using an API.

We decided we will only support indexers that have APIs or a proper RSS feed (for Torrent RSS), we don’t plan to support sites that don’t have an API.

Does extra torrent and zoogle not have API? I love your software but I might have to move on if more aren’t added.

ExtraTorrent has a basic one… https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/issues/945#issuecomment-187377796

I don’t know what Zoogle is, but most torrent sites don’t have APIs. Jackett or Jackett-public might support them though.

Thanks as per the link last user posted this

http://extratorrent.cc/rss.xml?cid=20&type=last

By adding this it will download my shoes off extra torrent?

Yes, adding it as a Torrent RSS feed in Sonarr will allow Sonarr to check it for new releases, it just won’t work for searching.

What you mean won’t work for searching ?

How do you tell if a site is API?

https://zooqle.com http://www.1337x.pl are some popular ones

You won’t be able to click search and Sonarr process the results, it will only work for picking up new releases from the RSS feed, which is the automatic way Sonarr finds releases, searching is only used if you want to find old episodes of a series or if you missed one.

You need to look at their site for documentation or mention of it, googling site name + api usually yields something to dig into further, if you can’t find anything concrete the answer is probably they don’t because most don’t.

Zooqle (explains why I couldn’t find it because you had written Zoogle) does not have an API that Sonarr could use, the API they do have (a link to it is at the bottom right of the page) is for release information only, not searching for releases.

1337x.pl doesn’t look to have an API I see some people have written tools to screen scrape their site, probably something the Jackett public project could add if it doesn’t have support already.

Thank you for the reply I haven’t been on here much bit your always quick to answer any questions

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