JSON api, iPhone app, New Features

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:19 pm

Can anyone post an example of how to use json and php that would show how to connect and read the json search results. I'm new to php but would be great for my website.

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 3:12 pm

I'm hoping you might be able to add a "category" query argument as well, allowing callers to specify only "books," for example. The JSON response now seems to anticipate this with the "category": "All" field specifying it's returning results for all categories.

Would it be possible to specify the category in a more fine-grained way?

Thanks.

Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 10:21 am

Hi guys, i am happy to inform you that i wrote an open source application named "isoHunter" . It is a PyQt4 application used for searching and downloading torrents on isohunt. It makes use of the JSON api isohunt provides. Search google code for with the query "isohunter". I'll add screenshots soon

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:18 am

Cool. Google gadgets/desktop widgets like it would be useful too Wink

Category filtering for now can be done inside your app. Category name is supplied in the api data.

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:30 pm

sorry guys, i couldn't post urls in my first message, Here is the homepage for isoHunter application:

http://code.google.com/p/isohunter/

You can find info about it there.

Here are the screenshots on linux , mac , windows :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7776799@N02/sets/72157612395569255/

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 am

I am currently building a site in Zend Framework which uses JSON calls to retrieve sources for release names. However, it seems that when I link directly to the "enclosure_url" I am redirected to the summary page when I click on it. If I go back to my site and then click on the enclosure_url again it does work.

I will be providing a link to all isoHunt summary pages for each result, any chance that I will be able to let future users download the torrent directly?

Currently this is still a work in progress but I've managed to get everything working the way I like. I use ZendX_JQuery AjaxLinks to call a controller function which then calls a function to retrieve the JSON. The JSON is converted to an array and formatted to HTML which is then returned to the page and inserted in a DIV beneath each post. I was inspired by the way the old isoHunt used to work.

In case your curious my JSON calls are cached for 2 hours to the harddrive, so it shouldn't ever hammer your server Wink

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:19 pm

I would like to present my application that will use the isoHunt API to search for torrent and directly download them on your Transmission server. More concrete: my application, called Transdroid, is an Android application that shows the torrents and allows users to add new torrents as well. Of course using our favourite torrent search engine. Smile

It is currently in BETA (testers needed) and can be downloaded on the Transdroid website at http://code.google.com/p/transdroid/

A question about this: currently a single click in the results list directly adds the torrent. A long press allows the user to open de details page on isoHunt in the web browser. This is fine regarding your 'has to link to the details page' policy, I presume?

Gr,
Elmo

Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 1:54 pm

The web search and json api results are different. I assume they should be the same. Check out these links:

(Argh, i can't post urls, those start with isohunt...)

/js/json.php?ihq=axxo
/torrents/?ihq=axxo

The two result sets are completely different. Is it possible with some parameters to make the json api results match the web results? That would be more useful to me.

Thanks!

Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 5:11 am

elmotheelk: Looks like a nice app! I'd suggest however to swap behavior on pressing/holding on torrents, so pressing opens isohunt's torrent details page, and holding starts downloads. Downloads being an affirmative action should have users holding to "confirm" it's what they want, especially considering easy accidental presses on touchscreens. Just a thought.

Atird: thanks for the bug report! Turns out we more thoroughly tested json results sorted by "seeds", but not the default sort which was sorted by torrent ID instead of the composite ranking as in normal isohunt web search. This is fixed now, you'll get same results and ordering on json as on isohunt web search.

Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 3:05 pm

does anyone know if there is any bittorrent client for iphone available please?

Thanks

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:07 pm

Can you add JSONP support?

For example, this query "ihq=Michael+Jackson &callback=grab " will produce:

Code:

grab({
"title": "isoHunt > All > Michael Jackson",
...
})

It's really useful for UserJS.

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:16 pm

I made an Ubiquity command using this api, it can be found here .

Edited: Remade the command, lost the old code.

Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:29 pm

already tweeted about the ubiquity command and transdroid

for JSONP, we are not allowing cross domain JS so we can deal with abuses by IPs, as we are not issuing api tokens and placing any hard limits on request rate. So for now we are not implementing that

Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:39 am

@isoHunt:
Thanks for implementing this API, it's awesome !

Just one request:
I'm integrating this new API into the isoHunt SearchEngine for TorrentFlux, and, though I don't personally need the functionality, it's current code includes a link for "Show Latest Torrents" for each site it searches. Back when this engine had to wade through heaps of HTML to pull results, that was fine, but now that JSON is an option for the search results, the majority of the old code is useless, and I can't bring myself to keep all this old code just so one con see the latest results. Any way you guys could implement a latest torrents JSON feed? It would be much appreciated!

Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:27 pm

rtlong wrote:

@isoHunt:
Thanks for implementing this API, it's awesome !
I'm integrating this new API into the isoHunt SearchEngine for TorrentFlux .

Beta version of the new engine is released! Anyone who uses isoHunt with TorrentFlux is encouraged to download the new engine. Download , More Info

@IH: Again, big thanks for implementing this API! Is it ever buggy for you? I've noticed results are not always sorted when they should be.