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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

To be clear, this is just a joke, and I don't look down on direct downloading. It absolutely has its place, and sometimes I do it myself if it's just faster to download a file directly. Torrenting is just so much more convenient, though, especially when using Jackett's manual search.

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[-] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago

What is Jackett's manual search? Never heard of it.

[-] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Jackett is a program that allows you to configure multiple indexers (torrent sites, like 1337x, EZTV, RuTor, Nyaa.si, etc.) in a single interface, that way you can search through all of them at the same time. Jackett, and another program just like it called Prowlarr, is usually used in conjunction with the .arr suite of programs (Radarr, Sonarr, etc.), but it includes a manual search function that allows you to query all the indexers you have set up in the interface at the same time. That's exclusively what I use it for.

So, for example, I have 22 indexers set up in my installation of Jackett. I can use the manual search function to search through all of them at once, then I can sort the results by seeder count, publish date, and file size, and I can filter through the results to find exactly what I'm looking for. Once I've found the file I want, I can copy the magnet link directly from the search results and paste it into Qbittorrent. It's an extremely easy way to find files quickly, and it's much more efficient than manually going to a bunch of different torrent sites to search for a file that might not even be available there. With Jackett, I've literally never once had a case where I wasn't able to find what I was looking for. That's how good it is.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Is there anything like this that I could use on Android?

[-] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not what you asked for but torrent-CSV can be helpful for you

[-] thedrivingcrooner@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Does this run on Android though?

[-] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

You can use either web version or android app. Fun fact, it's made by the creator of lemmy

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