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When will there be deluge search engines?
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:38 am
by Chas. Root
Greetings,
I went to the plugins section and enabled the search plugin.
But there were no search engines. It provides an example for
using google. But to me this seems kind of pointless. As I can
already use google in my web browser. Why would this be
helpful in a p2p client? Is deluge just another web client?!
I thought it was like ed2k, edonkey, gnutella, limewire, etc...
Am I mistaken?
Thank you for all your time and consideration in this matter.
Re: When will there be deluge search engines?
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:57 am
by markybob
Chas. Root wrote:Greetings,
I went to the plugins section and enabled the search plugin.
But there were no search engines. It provides an example for
using google. But to me this seems kind of pointless. As I can
already use google in my web browser. Why would this be
helpful in a p2p client? Is deluge just another web client?!
I thought it was like ed2k, edonkey, gnutella, limewire, etc...
Am I mistaken?
Thank you for all your time and consideration in this matter.
you're COMPLETELY mistaken. it is not anything like ed2k, edonkey, gnutella or limewire. not anywhere near even close. read up on bittorrent. deluge is a bittorrent client, like utorrent (utorrent.com)
Re: When will there be deluge search engines?
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:29 am
by Chas. Root
Greetings,
Thank you very much for the reply!
Thanks for the "heads up". I do the research.
Thanks again!
Re: When will there be deluge search engines?
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 4:19 pm
by zachtib
Yes, Deluge doesn't display the search results in the client itself, but it will open the search page for your query. I would suggest finding a good tracker and adding it's engine, and I'm sure someone here can help you with that.
Re: When will there be deluge search engines?
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:26 pm
by SatNav
I use scrapetorrent.com - it searches a bunch of the major trackers and puts all the results on one page, and is generally really good. put:
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http://www.scrapetorrent.com/Search/index.php?search=${query}&sort=seed&fz=&zs=&pf=&cat=
into the 'URL' Field - that should work fine
Re: When will there be deluge search engines?
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:46 pm
by instinctive
Another search engine which I use is torrent search bar. enter the url below to use it in Deluge.
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http://www.google.com/custom?cx=007543263361953292879:ip0b-z8nzwc&q=${query}&sa=Search&cof=GFNT%3A%23000000%3BGALT%3A%23008000%3BLH%3A51%3BCX%3ATorrent%2520Search%3BVLC%3A%23663399%3BDIV%3A%23FFFFFF%3BFORID%3A1%3BT%3A%23000000%3BALC%3A%230000CC%3BLC%3A%230000CC%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etorrent-search-bar%2Ecom%2F%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etorrent-search-bar%2Ecom%2Ftorrent_search_logo_s%2Egif%3BGIMP%3A%23000000%3BLP%3A1%3BBGC%3A%23FFFFFF%3BAH%3Aleft&sourceid=mozilla-search&adkw=AELymgVzY2jj-duaJB9D8D9DhkySAX1mRiZaOkDmIDSaLRcO1TsNoHJyRDrrABqkzPr3RSKIhhXOd4JCtMbJv3Q7PA2Y6j3B2z4G4ug2COtJPXTkux5PUSxhz9AKvGehReWvcqnZEBPe3gl1Lzf8lH2fV-OWITjXjQ&client=pub-4359655221859943%22
Re: When will there be deluge search engines?
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:31 pm
by Chas. Root
SatNav wrote:I use scrapetorrent.com - it searches a bunch of the major trackers and puts all the results on one page, and is generally really good. put:
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http://www.scrapetorrent.com/Search/index.php?search=${query}&sort=seed&fz=&zs=&pf=&cat=
into the 'URL' Field - that should work fine
Greetings, and thank you for your response.
If I understood you correctly; I added your suggested URL into the Search Plugin fields (see attached). Yet
when performing a search in the deluge search box and pressing the search button, nothing happens.
Placing your suggested URL into the Location field in my browser, ultimately indicates that the only way
I can use it, is if I have the Mozilla/Firefox plugin - it doesn't provide a link to a torrent file that I can
feed to deluge.
Of course, as I'm still a deluge noob. It is possible that I /still/ don't get it.
I've been using all of those programs (that deluge is not) for years without difficulty what-so-ever. So I
can't imagine that deluge should be difficult to use/understand. I read all the info provided at WikiPedia
for BitTorrent. It doesn't seem that difficult at all. Yet I can't seem to find any torrents anywhere. Nor does
there seem to be any
intuitive means provided with deluge to get them. Shouldn't finding files/torrents
be real easy and intuitive with deluge?
Thank you very much for all your time and consideration.
UPDATE:
I also added the Google URL provided in this thread. Adding it > saving it > performing a search in the
deluge Search Box does nothing at all.
There was some mention of the searches opening the results in a new window. Where would this window
be located?
Thank you again.
Re: When will there be deluge search engines?
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:39 am
by SatNav
wow - you're really brand new at this bittorrent thing huh? Don't worry mate, we were all n00bs once
OK, you've put the right stuff in the right boxes (Name and URL). As for why it didn't work - hell knows. On linux, when something doesn't work I've found there could be any number of reasons. *But* I've found with the search plugin, if you already have a firefox window open, it may just open a new tab with your results page with no fanfare whatsoever - something to look out for.
As for where to find torrents, well it's pretty hard *not* to find them in my experience! try scrapetorrent, as I suggested before. don't bother with that whole long url I gave, just
http://www.scrapetorrent.com, then search for what you want.
http://www.thepiratebay.org is another popular one.
http://tvrss.net (no www) is great for TV shows, and
http://www.demonoid.com is a very good private tracker (meaning you have to get an invitation and register). In the end, you don't *need* to use the deluge search plugin (I never do) - It's just a convenience thing.
Good luck!
PS: to the mods: I hope I didn't break any rules by giving him those links - I didn't link directly to any copyrighted stuff. If I did break any - soooooorry
Re: When will there be deluge search engines?
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:19 am
by shirish
Hi Chaos,
I made couple of torrent tutorials
http://www.techenclave.com/forums/utorr ... 76693.html as well as
http://www.techenclave.com/forums/utorr ... 76706.html . Both these tutorials are based on utorrent but basically any client would do the same operations. There is also a big exhaustive thread about torrent invitations
http://www.techenclave.com/forums/torre ... 30474.html so you know how popular the service is. I might do an exhaustive one perhaps when deluge hits 0.6. Its already a pretty good client.
Re: When will there be deluge search engines?
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:26 am
by shirish
SatNav wrote:I use scrapetorrent.com - it searches a bunch of the major trackers and puts all the results on one page, and is generally really good. put:
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http://www.scrapetorrent.com/Search/index.php?search=${query}&sort=seed&fz=&zs=&pf=&cat=
into the 'URL' Field - that should work fine
Hi Satnav,
I enabled the search plugin & as Chas had issues even I had the issue with the code you put up. Thankfully deluge tells where the issue is :-
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Searching with engine
URL = None
Entry = games
URL = None
Entry = games
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/deluge/plugins/TorrentSearch/plugin.py", line 126, in torrent_search
url = url.replace('${query}', entry)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'replace'
Searching with engine
URL = None
Entry = games
URL = None
Entry = games
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/deluge/plugins/TorrentSearch/plugin.py", line 126, in torrent_search
url = url.replace('${query}', entry)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'replace'
As can be seen what I had done is just put a keyword 'games' .
Some things before you begin. I am using gutsy gibbon 7.10 tribe 2 with latest updates. The browser I am using is firefox-granparadiso 3.0 alpha 5 so there might be differences in how things are handled. Not sure, I am using firefox-granparadiso as FF3 is supposed to be released by end October, early November.
I would try the same with firefox 2.0.0.4 & report back if it works or not. Cheers!
Update: tried with firefox 2.0.0.4 & came up with the same issue. Here are the package versions with stuff :-
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shirish@Mugglewille:~$ dpkg -l firefox
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================-======================-============================================================
ii firefox 2.0.0.4+2-0ubuntu4 lightweight web browser based on Mozilla
shirish@Mugglewille:~$ dpkg -l firefox-granparadiso
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================-======================-============================================================
ii firefox-granparadiso 3.0~alpha5-0ubuntu2 lightweight web browser based on Mozilla (Development Versio
Sorry will have to open a ticket about the same. Feel free to close it or whatever. Cheers !