JSON api, iPhone app, New Features

Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:14 pm

Is there any way to return results sorted by date.

It's useful to see only the most recent 100 torrents...

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:53 pm

If you want to see only the most recent, you can just look at the RSS feed... FYI, i love this JSON, i use it in all my software projects, TorrentCommander and TCMobile!!!!

TorrentCommander: http://dsdcomputers.net/SoftDev/TorrentCommander.html

TCMobile: http://dsdcomputers.net/SoftDev/TCMobile.html

Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:31 am

Can anyone comment on whats up with this error? I can do a normal search just fine, get the rss feeds, but any time I try to use the JSON search feature I get this error.

Temporary server error, come back in 300s.

have I angered the internet Gods? is this related to the legal troubles? is IH under attack?

Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:20 pm

Indeed, you have angered our databases greatly (or someone did). But it was a temporary issue.

Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 6:33 pm

Is it possible to get a list of files in a torrent via the JSON API, without having to fetch the summary HTML and parse it out? If it isn't, any chance of adding it?

Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 1:54 pm

Hi all,

I have created an open source .NET Linq provider "LinqToBitTorrent" that translates linq queries into HTTP requests to consume the IsoHunt API as well as some others.

You can freely download the source code and/or binaries at the Codeplex site: http://linqtobittorrent.codeplex.com

You can also play with a live demo of the provider: http://.(info)/mballhaus/linqtobittorrent.aspx

Let me know what you think.

Have fun!

Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 4:43 am

I just signed up with the forum today specifically to reply to this thread.

IH: like the others, I want to thank you for the JSON implementation. I've created a personal/private web page, and a very simple Google Gadget with it, and am finding it quite useful. What makes it particularly useful to me, as opposed to using your RSS feeds, is the ability to sort by seeders. I personally use isoHunt to download TV show torrents, and with the way the RSS feeds work, the top entries were almost NEVER relevant/preferred, almost all having very low seeder counts, and thus following RSS feeds was completely worthless (or so it seemed to me). So this leaves me with a question: was I missing some functionality of the RSS feeds, perhaps a hidden CGI paramater that would allow me to change the entries returned (such as sorting by 'relevance' or 'seeder count')? If the answer to my previous question is that 'no, no such thing exists', then could you to add this feature (it seems to me that you could probably copy/paste most of the code from your JSON work to accomplish this, or the reverse, tack on RSS generating code to the JSON PHP file, with a CGI variable to trigger RSS output)? This is something I had been wishing for for quite a long time, and even though the new JSON functionality would be a bit of overlap, the overlap isn't total, and I still think it would be very useful and appreciated. Also, what do you think of the idea of adding a U R L (within the JSON structure) pointing to the 'Comments' tab/page of a torrent? I would prefer, personally, to link to this rather than the 'Summary', if this wouldn't break your terms of use.

Thanks again for continuing to make this site a great torrent search engine.

P.S.
For some reason, merely using the acronym of "Uniform Resource Locator" triggered the forum to prevent me from posting, thinking that I was actually including such a thing in my post, which strikes me as a bit absurd. This is why I spaced the letters of the acronym in my post.

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:04 am

hey guys, ive made use of the search api to make a small flash app
take a look tell me what you think

currently to grab results from isohunt.com i need to use the university proxy (lol) to get past flash security (cross-site), anyone know a better way Question

also, i wanted to include piratebay results mixed in with isohunt ones, i cant find their api though, but i know they must have something because uRemote (iphone app) has a search piratebay feature...

http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~jpil133/cgi-bin/torrent.cgi

screenshot:

Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:38 am

Currently if your query returns 0 results the total_results value is blank which causes Javascript to error out. I'm wondering if it would be possible to change this to be a 0 instead of a blank value, or enclose the value in quotes so at least it is somewhat valid if blank

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:21 pm

@demersus, u got it

Changelog

May 11, 2009 : Fixed wrong results sorting in default composite sorting method
Feb. 20, 2010: Fixed critical bugs, including incorrect sorting and missing/inconsistent results. Also added various data elements in results, including original_link and exempts
Mar. 20, 2010: total_results: value set to 0 if empty

Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 12:49 pm

Well this JSON API is incredible. I wrote a Program (using the API) and I just uploaded a new ALPHA Version of the EpisodeGrabber!

http://patrickbertsch.webs.com/downloads.htm

check it out and give me some feedback.

Greedings,

Patrick

Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 9:41 am

Happy news, i'll release the 1.1 version of my app "Isohunter" soon, before that i want to ask a few questions. First, i wonder why order=ascending doesn't work, or may be it seemed to me like that Smile

, make me wrong. Second, i use the json provided by /statsjson.php to popup completer on a gui widget as the user types the search query, is it ok for u, if so how often do you update the page /statsjson.php , i'll use a timer event to update the completer. Thanks isohunt.com for providing such a nice api and thx to people who has downloaded 1.0 version of my app.

I got one more question, my app permits the user to download multiple ".torrent" files at the same time, should i put a limit on that, i don't want to cause extra load on your servers.

One more question Smile

, how can i make my app identified by your system?, adding toasted spam header to the requests seem meaningless for a desktop app, how about User-Agent header like {'User-agent': 'isohunter-1.1'} ?

Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:38 pm

I have a PHP application that uses this API. I'm getting different results depending on what server I run it from.

From IP 74.86. snip , when running the following query:

http://isohunt.com/js/json.php?ihq=jaybob&sort=age&rows=99

... I get back only 14 results (sorted by age). In the result header I get the following:

total_results = 14
censored = 2206

... and it seems to be missing several results compared to a manual search (by age) on www.isohunt.com.

When I run an identical query from IP 59.167. snip , I get 99 results (as expected), with the following in the result header:

total_results = 1201
censored = 0

Can anyone tell me what the "censored" property means, and why I'm getting different results when searching from different servers?

Thanks.

Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:17 pm

i edited the IP's for security purposes

anyway..

the issue you are having is that the first IP is based in Texas... in the USA... due to the court injunction US users have been blocked from searching torrents

the other IP is based in Australia... and is not blocked thus you would not get any censored torrents

Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:20 pm

Thanks Mr Toaster. Much appreciated.