GitHub - TUVIMEN/torge: A shell script for searching for links on torrent sites

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It supports thepiratebay, nyaa, 1337x, libgen, limetorrents and rarbg

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Very cool, but why not just use qbittorrents search engine? 🤔
- Why not use prowlarr + arrs instead?
- I don't really use qbittorrents, i do everything from terminal so i use transmission with transmission-remote cli, this script gives me the ability to add any torrent in a couple of seconds. Also it can search for books on libgen.
Pretty cool. May I ask tough, what’s the reason for doing this in BASH and not in something like Python?
- Not OP, but I always prefer bash over python since it's "lower level". But that's just a preference.
  
  I'm with this... Bash runs in nearly anything without any real good chance of version conflicts.
  Why complicate things needlessly?
- Not really bash but posix shell, the main reason is because at the time of making it i had not yet made python ffi for my html searching lib
I really like this. Is it possible to have it search several sources in the future?
- Using all sources could return over 200 results for one query. This would make it hard to browse without fzf.
  Results would have to get sorted by the script and fields like date are provided in human readable format that would have to be converted with a lot of effort to sort it. Sources have also unique fields.
  Shell script is just bad to make that feature, although torge is extendable enough for you to make a wrapper script that could do it without sorting.
Nice! It's using xclip or xsel to copy magnet links, afaik it's only working on Xorg. What is the Wayland alternative for xclip?
- You can use the --no-clipboard option to make a wrapper script that would integrate it with wl-copy.

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