Tortuga

Tortuga makes it really easy to interact with ThePirateBay.

Inspired by: https://github.com/clindsay107/Pirata

Installation

Install using npm:

npm install tortuga

Usage

var tortuga = require('tortuga');

tortuga.search('Ubuntu', function(results) {
  console.log(results);
})

[
  {
    id: 10139279,
    title: 'Ubuntu 12.04',
    category: 303,
    url: 'http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/10139279',
    magnet: 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:895649af5c8311d16a1...',
    seeders: 1,
    leechers: 2,
    uploader: {
      username: 'Linear',
      profileUrl: 'http://thepiratebay.se/user/Linear'
    },
    files: 1,
    comments: 0,
    hash: '4D753474429D817B80FF9E0C441CA660EC5D2450',
    size: 964
  }
  ...
]

//Filtering:
tortuga.search({query: 'Ubuntu', sortType: 'SEEDERS', category: 'APPLICATIONS'} function(results) {
  console.log(results);
})

//Top 100 by category
tortuga.top({categories: 'GAMES'}, function(results) {
  console.log(results);
});

Configuration

The Pirate Bay has a tendency to switch domains. Because of this you might need to change the domain you are querying against. You can alter the config.baseUrl by setting the environentment variable PIRATEBAY_HOST.

Contribute

• Fork it.
• Do your thing (preferably on a feature branch).
• Write a test that demonstrates that the bug was fixed or the feature works as expected.
• Send a pull request and bug me until I merge it!

License

Tortuga is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.