Mininova Torrent Searches in RSS, with a twist

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Mininova Torrent Searches in RSS, with a twist

posted by André Luís
posted on sun, 26 mar 2006 07:50

If you visit Mininova.org frequently, you've probably noticed they started providing feeds for search results earlier this month. The "problem" – not really a problem, I totally get it – is that their feed is pointing to the torrent's page and not the torrent itself. This presents itself as a barrier for programs that support RSS (such as the extraordinary ÂµTorrent ), since they expect the link of each item in the feed to be the url of a .torrent file.

How could I make it work?

Given the awesome Mininova's URL structure, it was just a matter of replacing 3 letters. So, therefore, I give you Mininova Searches in RSS, with a twist::

http://torrents.andr3.net

read the disclaimer, this is not to incite piracy or any other legal activity, is just to provide a easier access to legal, uncopyrighted torrents in mininova. Specially if they come out periodically.

Tips

I recommend you to use Firefox Live Bookmarks as a backup, pointing to the original feed, since you won't have information about the number of seeders and leechers on each torrent. For that, make a jump to mininova before starting to download.

Feedback

You know the drill, anything wrong, shout.

tagged with tips torrents

↓ Comments

eduardo_andrade on mon, 27 mar 2006 04:34

Thanks !
I'll be using it :D

Hug
andr3 on mon, 27 mar 2006 08:51

I'm glad you appreciate it. :) At first, I did it for me, but if others find it useful as well, all the better.

Enjoy.
CrasH on tue, 25 sep 2007 19:24

No longer accurate with Weeds. Will show "get" in the address bar, but still takes you to a torrent description page.
Justin on thu, 11 oct 2007 09:15

Add &direct to the feed url, for example:

http://www.mininova.org/rss.xml?user=EZTV&num=50&direct

That will get the last fifty shows from EZTV, and the links will go the actual torrent. It's all in the FAQ.
andr3 on thu, 11 oct 2007 09:25

Thank you Crash and Justin. They've recently added that "&direct". My service has been rendered pointless, since then. I won't just remove it since many people are using it. But I'll probably change it to just act as a proxy.

Have you guys had any problems with the official feed? I just tried that url Justin posted and I got the torrent page, not the .torrent file. Weird... they may be checking the user-agent and acting accordingly.
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