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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 on 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 is until I stumbled across Stremio and
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bookmarked it to read about after I got frustrated with whatever project I was working on at the time.
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Cue the day I got frustrated enough with that project and finally looked into Stremio. At first, it seemed too good to
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be true, but I was yearning for something just sketchy enough to try out. What could go wrong with handing over my card information
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to an unknown organization across the pond? At the end of the day, the cost benefit analysis landed in my favor, and about
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30 minutes after purchasing my Real Debrid subscription and setting up Stremio on my laptop, 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! 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 fricking 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 about a month of studying Stremio's code and lots of tinkering, I 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. 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. It's now less ugly and quite
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functional. If you dig deep enough, you'll stumble across some of that ugly code that surprisingly still works (why fix it if ain't broke?).
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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 click into it to view download options
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## Getting Started
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1. Clone the repo
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