Support for Torznab API

[tylergets]

It would be awesome to the support the Torznab api, as it would allow many automation tools to work with this project.

Here is documentation from Sonarr, an automation tool.
https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/wiki/Implementing-a-Torznab-indexer

[sergiotapia]

I'd love to implement this. Thanks for the heads up!

[lukyjay]

It has been 11 months, has there been any progress on this?

[tchoutri]

@lukyjay no. The short-term goal is to ensure that all of the existing crawlers work properly, then I will take a look at that. I'll ping you when it's implemented.

Happy Holidays.

[tchoutri]

@lukyjay Implementing a Torznab API crawler would go against our "Run without ceremony" goal. This is a self-hosted service so each user would have to enter an endpoint URL and perhaps API credentials.
We currently do not have a mechanism to start/stop crawlers at runtime, so we cannot include a torznab crawler that wouldn't be bothering users who don't use it.
I'm closing this issue for now, we'll open it when it becomes technically possible to provide a Torznab crawler.

[gjedeer]

Hey @tchoutri of course as a contributor you have the deciding voice here, but I think you're misunderstanding what this ticket is about. Implementing a Torznab-compatible API means that a GET request to

https://my.magnetissimo.instance/api?t=search&cat=..,..&q=Anime+Title+123

would return an XML with search results in the already harvested magnets. It's just a different format for requesting searches. OP is not requesting that you crawl torznab-compatible services (or so I think).

[sergiotapia]

Right, this we can do most definitely. It's just spitting out Torznad formatted XML.

[tchoutri]

Oh then it's not a problem at all. :)

[sergiotapia]

It's been a ludicrous amount of time but I'm going to tackle this tomorrow. 👿

[askiiart]

@sergiotapia Was this finally added? If so, how can I add it to *arr? I'm just getting an error when I try to connect (I'm using http://x.x.x.x:4000/api)

[lukyjay]

@sergiotapia Was this finally added? If so, how can I add it to *arr? I'm just getting an error when I try to connect (I'm using http://x.x.x.x:4000/api)

He said he'd make a start, not finish 🙂

[ldexterldesign]

👋

Has this task been done?: if yes then this issue can be closed

Hope this helps

Regards

[askiiart]

@ldexterldesign I believe issue #145 was closed because it's a duplicate of this.

[ldexterldesign]

BUMP

If this issue gets done then can setup prowlarr, integrate with the other *arr apps and start making use of this app 🙂

Then I would do #162

Regards