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51 lines
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# Torsearch
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Torsearch is a "media acquisition tool" that works strictly with Real Debrid. Torsearch makes it easy to search for
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and download your favorite movies and tv shows. You can think of it like Stremio, but without the streaming. Why the
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comparison to Stremio? That's because Torsearch uses the same source for media files that Stremio uses: Torrentio
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(hence the name: Torsearch).
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After two failed attempts at running a media server, I decided to hang up my hat and give up my dream of a self-hosted
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media server. I figured the days of torrenting were mostly over and everybody ranting & raving about their media collections
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must be going to Walmart and buying up the bucket of old movies they have. That's until I stumbled across Stremio.
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At first, it seemed too good to be true, but I was yearning for something just sketchy enough to try out. What could
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go wrong with handing over my card information to an unknown organization across the pond? At the end of the day,
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the cost benefit analysis landed in my favor, and about 30 minutes after purchasing my Real Debrid subscription and
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setting up Stremio, I was in business.
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My mind was blown. I might not have the most "cultured" taste in media, but it had everything I searched for and more! After
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watching a few movies, I noticed the "Copy Download Link" button. "What's this lil guy do?" I asked myself. Duh, it
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downloads the f*****g movie. And there's the 💡flashing over my head. There's gotta be a way to automate this, I told myself.
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After a month of studying Stremio's code and lots of tinkering, I finally figured it out. Torrentio is the magic behind
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the scenes. You feed it a Real Debrid API key and an IMDB ID, and it gives you a list of results to download that media.
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Easy peasy.
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In about an hour I had a proof of concept working. It wasn't pretty, but it wasn't supposed to be. That proof-of-concept
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has blossomed into the beautiful Torsearch that I've been using nearly every day since then. The code in this repo
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is a complete re-write of the proof-of-concept that started out ugly and ended up even uglier. Knowing the core functionality
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required to make it work, I was able to re-write the app with some design patterns in place.
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## Pics or didn't happen
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## Features
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- Search for Movies & TV Shows by their name
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- Download directly to your NAS
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- Monitor TV Shows for new episodes and automatically download them
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- Browse popular media and view its download options
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- LDAP or local auth (OIDC coming soon)
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## Features on the roadmap
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- Requests - allow users to request new media
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- OIDC auth
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- Prometheus logging
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## Getting Started
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1. Clone the repo
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