transdroid-search

Transdroid Torrent Search is an Android application that provides torrent search results to other Android apps by exposing ContentProviders. Originally part of Transdroid, it now supplies torrent links for 15+ public and private torrent sites to various torrent-related Android applications.

The latest .apk is available via transdroid.org/latest-search and code is available under the Lesser GPL v3 license.

Usage

Transdroid Torrent Search provides access to torrent searches on a variety of sites. Instead of providing a search interface itself, it allows Android application to access the data via a content provider.

Getting search results

Acquiring search results for a specific query can be as easy as as two lines of code:

Uri uri = Uri.parse("content://org.transdroid.search.torrentsearchprovider/search/" + query);
Cursor results = managedQuery(uri, null, null, null, null);

The returned Cursor can be used in a ListActivity or elsewhere. The following fields are available in the returned cursor:

String[] fields = new String[] { "_ID", "NAME", "TORRENTURL", "DETAILSURL", "SIZE", "ADDED", "SEEDERS", "LEECHERS" };

Customizing search results

A specific site may be queried and the preferred sort order can be given:

Uri uri = Uri.parse("content://org.transdroid.search.torrentsearchprovider/search/" + query);
Cursor results = managedQuery(uri, null, "SITE = ?", new String[] { siteCode }, sortOrder)

Here, siteCode is the code of one of the supported torrent sites. The default is RARBG. The orderCode is either BySeeders (default) or Combined. Note that no errors are returned when a site or sort order doesn't exist (although they are written to LogCat); a null Cursor is returned instead. (This is a limitation of ContentResolvers.)

Supported torrent sites

To get a listing of (the codes of) the support torrent sites, including custom RSS sites defined, you may use another provider:

uri = Uri.parse("content://org.transdroid.search.torrentsitesprovider/sites");
Cursor sites = managedQuery(uri, null, null, null, null);

The returned Cursor contains the following fields:

String[] fields = new String[] { "_ID", "CODE", "NAME", "RSSURL" };

Developed By

• Eric Kok (Original developer) eric@2312.nl
• Steve Garon
• Gabor Tanka
• Eric Taix
• Alon Albert
• John Conrad
• Toon Schoenmakers
• Gabor Foldvari
• Marco Furlando
• Mário Franco
• Martin Piffault
• Colby Brown
• Thomas Riccardi
• and others...

License

Copyright 2010-2019 Eric Kok et al.

Transdroid Torrent Search is free software: you can redistribute
it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General
Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.

Transdroid Torrent Search is distributed in the hope that it will
be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with Transdroid.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Some code/libraries are used in the project:

• RssParser (learning-android) by Tane Piper (Public Domain)
• android-json-rpc by alexd (MIT License)
• Volley by Google (Apache License 2.0)