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Grabs all freeleech torrents from what.cd in one go. Thanks @tobbez
#!/usr/bin/env python2
# encoding: utf-8
# freeleech_dl.py by tobbez
import json
import requests
import HTMLParser
import os
import re
from getpass import getpass
def download_torrent(session, tid, name):
if not os.path.exists('downloaded_torrents/'):
os.mkdir('downloaded_torrents')
path = os.path.join('downloaded_torrents/', name)
if os.path.exists(path):
print '{} already downloaded, skipping'.format(tid)
return
if not hasattr(download_torrent, 'authdata'):
r = session.get('https://what.cd/ajax.php?action=index')
d = json.loads(r.content)
download_torrent.authdata = '&authkey={}&torrent_pass={}'.format(d['response']['authkey'], d['response']['passkey'])
print 'Downloading {}...'.format(tid),
dl = session.get('https://what.cd/torrents.php?action=download&id={}{}'.format(tid, download_torrent.authdata))
with open(path, 'wb') as f:
for chunk in dl.iter_content(1024*1024):
f.write(chunk)
print 'Done'
def main():
### You can change the following values if you only want to download a
### subset of all freeleech torrents, or if you don't want to enter your
### username and/or password every time you run the script.
user = raw_input("What.CD Username: ")
password = getpass("What.CD Password: ")
search_params = 'search=&freetorrent=1'
### No need to change anything below this line
html_parser = HTMLParser.HTMLParser()
fcre = re.compile('''[/\\?*:|"<>]''')
clean_fn = lambda x: fcre.sub('', html_parser.unescape(x))
s = requests.session()
r = s.post('https://what.cd/login.php', data={'username': user, 'password': password})
if r.url != u'https://what.cd/index.php':
print "Login failed"
return
page = 1
while True:
r = s.get('https://what.cd/ajax.php?action=browse&' + search_params + "&page={}".format(page))
data = json.loads(r.content)
for group in data['response']['results']:
if 'torrents' in group:
for torrent in group['torrents']:
if not torrent['isFreeleech']:
continue
fn = clean_fn('{}. {} - {} - {} ({} - {} - {}).torrent'.format(torrent['torrentId'], group['artist'][:50], group['groupYear'], group['groupName'][:50], torrent['media'], torrent['format'], torrent['encoding']))
download_torrent(s, torrent['torrentId'], fn)
else:
fn = clean_fn('{}. {}.torrent'.format(group['torrentId'], group['groupName'][:100]))
download_torrent(s, group['torrentId'], fn)
page += 1
if page > data['response']['pages']:
break
print "Done"
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
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