Swarms

Overview

Swarms is a movie/torrent discovery website. The site uses the innately social nature of BitTorrent to sort movies by popularity which makes it easy to discover new films or rips. The site tracks and records swarm sizes in order to provide historic insight about the popularity of movies.

Project Status

Creating a BitTorrent site is a fool's errand, their legality is questionable and the only practical income source is banner advertising. That said I have always wanted to make a BitTorrent site. I always felt there was something lacking, in the standard run of the mill boring table oriented torrent sites. Somehow I started building Swarms in-between projects and then where do you stop?
I don't really want to deal with the legal issues or the promotional activities required to build a popular torrent site. Therefore I have decided to have my own private installation of Swarms and put the source up on github!

Features

• Scraps The Pirate Bay to discover new movies and detect swarm sizes
• Automatic conversion of torrent name to movie titles (Uses toname)
• Admin screens for manually correcting torrent to movie name mappings
• Scraps movie metadata from IMDB (Uses Yayimdbs)
• Embedded movie trailer (Youtube)
• Records and graphs movie swarm sizes
• Customisable links for downloading movies
• iPad swipe pagination on home page

Screenshots

Home Page

View Movie Details

Watch a Movie Trailer

Installation

This guide has been developed against Ubuntu 10.04

Step 1: Server prerequisite

install mysql:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev

install other stuff:

sudo apt-get install curl vim git-core libxml2-dev libxslt-dev

install rvm: http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/

rvm setup:

rvm package install zlib
rvm install 1.9.2
rvm 1.9.2
rvm gemset create sw
rvm 1.9.2@sw

Step 2: Download app

sudo mkdir /var/www
cd /var/www
sudo git clone git://github.com/o-sam-o/swarms.git
cd swarms

Step 3: Install required gems

gem install bundler
sudo mkdir .bundle
sudo chmod 777 .bundle/
bundle install --without development test 

Step 4: Setup database

 mysqladmin -u root -p create swarms
 
 mysql -u root -p
 grant usage on *.* to swarms@localhost identified by 'password_here';
 grant all privileges on swarms.* to swarms@localhost;
 exit

Now update the password in /var/www/swarms/config/database.yml to your password

Step 5: Migrate database

sudo mkdir log
sudo touch log/production.log
sudo chmod 0666 log/production.log
sudo chmod 0666 db/schema.rb

rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production

Step 6: Set directory permissions

The app will download images and add them to the public folder

sudo chmod -R 777 public/

Step 7: Scrap torrent info

Scrap for new torrent info

rake source_torrents RAILS_ENV=production

Compile statics based on recent torrent scrapings

rake add_movie_stats RAILS_ENV=production

Both of these rake tasks are intended to be regularly kicked off by cron

Stap 8: Start the web server

Install and start Passenger: http://www.modrails.com/install.html

Licence

MIT (excluding all the stuff copied from others, e.g. theme)

Contact

Sam Cavenagh (cavenaghweb@hotmail.com)