JSON api, iPhone app, New Features

Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:34 pm

behweemoth wrote:

Thanks Mr Toaster. Much appreciated.

yer welcome Wink

Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:42 pm

manofvalour wrote:

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'} ?

- "order" param can be either "asc" or "desc", forgot to document this (added now to original post)

- putting your app name in user-agent on api requests is the proper way

- for request frequency, it's fine as long as you link back from your client to isohunt.com/torrent_details/ pages as said in my original post, and you limit batch downloads to something sensible like 10 max. at once.

Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 3:35 pm

i got the below json from http://isohunt.com/js/json.php?ihq=ubuntu :

Code:

{"title":"",
"link":"http://isohunt.com/torrent_details//ubuntu?tab=summary",
"guid":"",
"enclosure_url":"http://isohunt.com/download//ubuntu.torrent",
"length":"0",
"type":"application/x-bittorrent",
"tracker":"N/A",
"tracker_url":"N/A",
"kws":"",
"exempts":"",
"category":"All",
"original_site":"",
"original_link":"",
"size":"0 MB",
"files":"",
"Seeds":"",
"leechers":"",
"downloads":"",
"votes":"",
"comments":"",
"hash":"",
"pubDate":"Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:11:09 GMT"}

it occured in the 8th item (json.items.list[7]) , which seems to be an error

Also http://isohunt.com/js/json.php?ihq=rihanna&rows=20 returns 20 total_results, isn't it the composite ranking without sort and order params, if sort is specified, total_results get bigger numbers

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:23 pm

I'm sometimes getting illegal syntax in my results, an example of which is given below. Any idea if this is fixable your end? Thanks.

http://isohunt.com/js/json.php?ihq=Night%20Train%20&start=1&rows=100&sort=seeds

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 8:49 pm

yhvh wrote:

I'm sometimes getting illegal syntax in my results, an example of which is given below. Any idea if this is fixable your end? Thanks.

http://isohunt.com/js/json.php?ihq=Night%20Train%20&start=1&rows=100&sort=seeds

http://www.jsonlint.com/ validates it

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:00 pm

IH wrote:

http://www.jsonlint.com/ validates it

I used that to validate the json previously, and yes, it now seems to validate. The illegal token was a tab I think.

Here's another example, error at line 392:
http://isohunt.com/js/json.php?ihq=Pink%20Floyd%20The%20Wall%20&start=1&rows=100&sort=seeds

Are you fixing these by hand?

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:55 pm

thanks for the catch. Switched all entity encoding to php's json_encode and all seems to pass www.jsonlint.com

Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 11:48 am

Hello,
I am a iphone user and i also want to use bittorrent on that. so this information will really help me in that. this kinda technology is great.

thanks!!

Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 7:12 pm

Hi,

I've identified a small bug in your JSON encoding. It's for the following isohunt page:

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/155923249/Gulliver%27s+Travels?tab=summary

Note that the "title" of this torrent is set to 0222. When this is presented in your JSON results, it looks like this:

"title":0222

Note that there are NO quotes around the 0222. The title field is then interpreted as an octal integer, which fails validation, both in PHP's json_decode() and also in www.jsonlint.com.

If you ensure that quotes are ALWAYS put around your titles, then the problem would go away.

Thanks again,

Mark.

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 4:03 am

interesting. Ensured quote around title

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 3:27 pm

IH wrote:

interesting. Ensured quote around title

Many thanks. Working now.

Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 10:51 pm

Possibly add a parameter to only have results from podtropolis ?

Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 10:58 pm

vert411 wrote:

Possibly add a parameter to only have results from podtropolis ?

um... put podtropolis in the search and hit enter.. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 3:40 pm

Hi there.

Thank you very much for providing the JSON API. I love using it.

I am having a problem with the sort=seeds command.

For example, http://ca.isohunt.com/js/json.php?ihq=Getting%20On%20s02e06&start=1&rows=10&sort=seeds is returning the following as its first match:

Quote:

{"title":"ER","link":"http:\/\/isohunt.com\/torrent_details\/46333175\/Getting+On+s02e06?tab=summary","guid":"46333175","enclosure_url":"http://ca.isohunt.com/download/46333175/Getting+On+s02e06.torrent","length":113945608192,"tracker":"tracker.torrentbox.com","tracker_url":"http:\/\/tracker.torrentbox.com:2710\/announce","kws":"","exempts":" ... er.season.05.complete \/ er.s05e22.getting.to.know.you.ws.avi ... er.season.02.complete \/ er.s02e06.days.like.this.fs.avi","category":"TV","original_site":"torrentbox.com","original_link":"http:\/\/torrentbox.com\/download\/211343\/vbhhhf.torrent","size":"106.12 GB","files":311, "Seeds":15 ,"leechers":270,"downloads":5135,"votes":16,"comments":28,"hash":"12ae8e712af9cda253a395e485ebb9fd5d982836","pubDate":"Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:08:43 GMT"}

where as it should return

Quote:

{"title":"South Park","link":"http:\/\/isohunt.com\/torrent_details\/354032389\/Getting+On+s02e06?tab=summary","guid":"354032389","enclosure_url":"http://ca.isohunt.com/download/354032389/Getting+On+s02e06.torrent","length":69429257830,"tracker":"tracker.thepiratebay.org","tracker_url":"http:\/\/tracker.thepiratebay.org:80\/announce","kws":"","exempts":" ... Season 2 \/ S02E06 - The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka.mkv ... Season 15 (720p) \/ S15E07 - You're Getting Old.mkv","category":"Anime","original_site":"torrent.cd","original_link":"http:\/\/torrent.cd\/1e23f175dd5f86b6cc4416f6df839975e0f39c65\/South+Park+Seasons+1+15+All+seasons+9+15+hd+720p.torrent","size":"64.66 GB","files":224, "Seeds":18 ,"leechers":156,"downloads":209,"votes":0,"comments":0,"hash":"1e23f175dd5f86b6cc4416f6df839975e0f39c65","pubDate":"Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:57:39 GMT"}

The results seem to be in random seed-count order after that.

Am I missing something?

Thanks again

Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 1:27 pm

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