Show HN: Simple BitTorrent Magnet Link search

http://www.moviemagnet.net

by cantbecool • 14 years ago

57 31 14 years ago

moviemagnet.net

arnaud13• 14 years ago

http://movies.io/ ? Sounds familiar?

chmod7752• 14 years ago

That is what I thought when I saw the site. Looks like a cheap clone of movies.io.

thinktankaoi• 14 years ago

It doesn't look too cheap to me. Plus he or she made an easier to use watchlist RSS feature than movies. That's just my 2¢.

cantbecool8• 14 years ago

I'm not going to lie, that's what inspired me, but on a podcast I recently listened to: http://technophiliapodcast.com/2012/episode-25-interview-wit... They said they were planning on going legit and go with only indie movies, but that would be a bummer, and with the recent demonoid takedown, I thought it would be an interesting project to play around with.

chmod7752• 14 years ago

If that's so please ignore what I said. Good job.

rockyleal• 14 years ago

I like your spirit. Would you consider that there could be something similar to solve the disappearance of library.nu?

lewisflude• 14 years ago

Keep up the great work! I'm not sure about the serif fonts you've chosen though - maybe try a sans for the body text?

nddrylliog5• 14 years ago

movies.io founder here, I definitely said that in that podcast, but changed my mind since.

Going legit is too much trouble. The world of licensing is way too complex and antiquated - and we would've been forced to adopt DRM, which is a step back, in my opinion: http://amos.me/blog/2012/vision/

So, in short, movies.io's not going away, and yes we're keeping torrents.

patrickk• 14 years ago

Also http://torrentbutler.eu

poundy• 14 years ago

http://www.findanyfilm.com, lists movies from TV listings, DVDs, online, all legitimate sources. No torrents and UK focussed

duiker101• 14 years ago

> No torrents

I think that is the biggest selling point of this website.

killerpopiller• 14 years ago

great effort, I am using it atm

cantbecool8• 14 years ago

Thanks.

chii• 14 years ago

can you talk about how you did the backend, and/or reveal any of the technical details?

cantbecool8• 14 years ago

Absolutely. Ruby on Rails 3.2.8, Postgres, theMoviedb.org for the movie information and pretty backgrounds, jQuery autocomplete for the insta search functionality, nokogiri gem for the magnet link scraping, and Google fonts.

nddrylliog5• 14 years ago

Exactly the same stack as movies.io :)

carbuncle• 14 years ago

Just like http://tormovies.org but with less choice.

mike-cardwell• 14 years ago

If anyone is interested, I've just written a small Grease Monkey plugin to convert the magnet urls to real torrent urls on moviemagnet.net and movies.io, thanks to torcache.net:

http://pastebin.ca/2205840

[EDIT] Updated pastebin URL to point to a new version which includes torrentbutler.eu and removes the jQuery dependency.

nddrylliog5• 14 years ago

Well, adding 'real torrent urls' to movies.io is trivial, if we don't do it there's a good reason. Even TPB moved away from torrent links and to magnet links. It's one added layer of indirection that makes the whole system harder to break.

cantbecool8• 14 years ago

I would be trivial to use real torrents, but I could easily get into a significant amount of trouble if I hosted up real torrent files though. Magnet links are just a link, nothing more. It wouldn't help anyone if I was taken down. I'm hosting this in the USA on a linode at the moment.

kzahel• 14 years ago

There is little distinction between in my mind between the torrent, whose bencoded 'info' dict sha1 hahses to the 20 byte magnet link, and the magnet link.

The hash uniquely identifies a torrent. Either way, you are presenting a representation of the torrent.

You might as easily argue that a torrent file cannot infringe, since it only presents sha1 hashes of chunks of files contained within the torrent, not the actual files themselves.

fluxon• 14 years ago

Will https:// access be available?

cantbecool8• 14 years ago

I'll purchase an SSL cert within a week.

radio4fan• 14 years ago

Did you try background-position: top center; on the body element?

Works better for unusual size windows (IMO).

cantbecool8• 14 years ago

No, I didn't try that. I have all wide screen devices at home, but I could understand that it potentially could be an issue with 4:3 displays. I'll roll it out on next deploy.

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