Public torrent metasearch sites are almost as popular as torrent indexers themselves - why search just Mininova when you can search MN, TPB, IsoHunt and others - all at the same time. It makes good sense, although this idea has never been all that successful when transferred over to private trackers, to say the least. We’ve all been dreaming for a way to simultaneously search our private accounts without the hassle of having to launch each tracker in a new browser tab, and then have to search them one-by-one. Let us present the Web’s first publicly accessible private tracker metasearch site.
This is a revolutionary new concept for searching multiple private trackers; all from one page! As of yet, *query results
- aren’t directly displayed, but “positive” hits are indicated and the resultant searches are immediately launchable to each corresponding private tracker. Simply amazing!
Private Tracker Metasearch - A Concept That Began at What.cd:
The concept of a private tracker metasearch was conceived and developed by What.cd gurus sanguinepenguinx (and sexten), and originated at What.cd in the forum thread below. As of yesterday, it was also the only way to access it.
— http://what.cd/forums.php?action=viewthread&threadid=34266
The idea quickly spawned into its own web domain earlier today, found at http://www.berrypi.com/search.htm. Don’t bother trying to access it with Internet Explorer, as you’ll need Firefox 3.0 and a greasemonkey script called ‘Private Trackers’:
The Greasemonkey script, and How It Works:
You’ll need Firefox v3.0 (or better) in order to take advantage of the script. Also, you’ll need to install this greasemonkey script, found here:
— http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/40545.
**1.
** Install greasemonkey, and the above script.
**2.
** Launch http://www.berrypi.com/search.htm.
**3.
** Start searching the available private trackers!
NOTES
:
How it works:
Conduct a search, and checkmark only the private trackers that you have accounts at (although this is not mandatory).
— Results Found: Click on the
corresponding tracker link (name) to launch the search results.
— No Results Found: You are logged into the private tracker, but no search results are available.
— Search In Progress: Self-explanatory.
— Disabled Tracker: You have turned off the search for a tracker you do not have an account at.
— Login Required: At the time of the search, you are not presently logged in to the tracker(s) listed. NOTE: This does not necessarily mean you need to have an active browser tab with the selected tracker(s) open and running. Most trackers allow you to “stay logged in” even when the browser (tab) is closed. When blue dots
appear next to the results of trackers you have accounts to, simply log in to those trackers (in another tab), or by clicking on the supplied tracker link.
UPDATES
:
This is very new, and FSF will update this article. Keep up-to-date with the latest script, which is being updated continuously. Looking to request a tracker to the list? Try the What.cd forum thread here. Additionally, if you receive a message at www.berrypi.com/search.htm “Please Update To Latest Version”, simply click on the link to the *.js file, and refresh the page; no need to restart Firefox.
Customizing It:
Right click the GM monkey, press m, select Private Metasearch, select edit. From there find all the trackers, copy and paste one and edit what is appropriate.
site.push([“What.CD”,”torrents.php?action=basic&searchstr=”,”Your search was way too l33t”,”“,”“,”music”]);
The line above has six sections:
1 - “What.CD” - the name that is shown on the search
2 - “…” - the link that is used for the search
i.e. if you want to make it for TV Vault, just change what.cd to tv-vault.me
3 - “Your search was way too l33t” - the string you get when nothing is
found.
4 - “” - the string you get if you are not logged in
5 - “” - the url for a descriptive search
6 - “music” - the category you want the search to go in out of
music/general/video/other
EG - I added PreTome using:
site.push([“PreToMe”,”http://pretome.net/browse.php?tags=&st=1&tf=all&search=”,”Nothing found!”,”http://pretome.net/browse.php?tags=&st=1&sd=1&tf=all&search=”,”“,”general”]);
ksauron Says:
thats really nice..
great job guys..
Diji1 Says:
This is just - well, awesome. Some of the best private trackers and Usenet as well. Well done people.
Ab Says:
Interesting , will be of great use
Lightning_Struck_Tower Says:
Excellent post as usual sharky.
BLAH Says:
This is great. I don’t have to log in to all these private trackers one by one again. Thanks
a/s/l Says:
sweeeeeeet super useful
ionut Says:
it has some bugs. besides certain trackers you get the message ‘login required’
even it worked properly i still wouldn’t see the use of it. we’re talking about private trackers. there aren’t a lot of releases of the same file, so finding a proper torrent takes you under 5 minutes. (considering you have to research more than one of your accounts)
lhnz Says:
ionut: what if you’re not looking for a popular torrent. Often you have to go to 10 or so sites before you find anything - if at all…
Sharky Says:
If you get the “Login Required” message, you can still click the tracker in the list, except yes, you’ll need to login. Most trackers support the option to “Keep me Logged In”, in which you can close the browser tab(s) of any/all trackers, and the search will then show “green” results found.
qMark Says:
Awesome job sanguinepenguinx.
brent Says:
that’s really cool! hope they add more trackers in the future
SiCK Says:
such a FAIL…
SICKBIGSHIT Says:
SICK, you better shut the fuck up if you don’t mention atleast one argument. Sanguinepenguinx did a fantastic job, I and many others are pleased with his gift to the filesharecommunity. It only sucks for example TT search isn’t very accurate which makes the sphere turn green almost all the time.. Keep up the good work!
vXV Says:
great post Sharky , and great work Sanguinepenguinx, but it will be better to be able to customize the search like add and remove trackers
woll smoth Says:
this really is very cool, but to say it’s the first is somewhat inaccurate as btjunkie has had the capability to search private sites as well for quite some time, although this idea does seem much more advanced than btjunkie.
Diji1 Says:
There’s also the awesome app Bit Che - searches an extremely large number of private trackers via plugins.
It’s certainly can require much more effort to set it up though - search the forums for the plugin for your tracker of choice as not all are included and even the ones that are seem to be lacking on the more recent plugin scripts from the forum.
I’m pretty sure FSF did an article on Bit Che a while back.
Diji1 Says:
“but to say it’s the first is somewhat inaccurate”
Who said that though?
anon Says:
you can add your own sites if you just follow the following format
site.push([“What.CD”,”torrents.php?action=basic&searchstr=”,”Your search was way too l33t”,”“,”“,”music”]);
The line above has six section.
1 - “What.CD” - the name that is shown on the search
2 - “…” - the link that is used for the search
i.e. if you want to make it for TV Vault, just change what.cd to tv-vault.org
3 - “Your search was way too l33t” - the string you get when nothing is found
4 - “” - the string you get if you are not logged in
5 - “” - the url for a descriptive search
6 - “music” - the category you want the search to go in out of music/general/video/other
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j0n Says:
where is softmp3.org?
j0n Says:
well you can always do !search for release in #tr.chat in IRC and get results currently from this sites SCC, GFT, HT, THS, ScT, TL, SiT, ScL, RBy, ACE, THB, TGB, TPB, TD, PTM, CT, TCS, AL, NT, TC, TFL, BTv, PT, TBy, RTT, DH, A4N, ST, tit, FTS, EZTV, ScR.
Although its too isnt 100% for bot might have been off some time or there wasnt announce from tracker its still easier and better.
user Says:
where can I find #tr.chat?
Jefo Says:
Doesnt work anymore…