This is a short two week project I completed to find popular movies based on torrent stats. The app is currently deployed at http://filmcloud.appspot.com/. This project was just hacked together, please excuse the quality of the code.

• Scrape torrent search sites for popular movies
• Scrape IMDB for poster + info on movies
• Display movies using a Javascript carousel, grouping movies by genre and ordering by swarm size
• Movie trailer sourced from YouTube and embedded in the page
• YQL + XPath admin interface for adding new source torrent sites.

• Python
• Django
• GAE
• YQL
• ImdbPy
• GData API (YouTube)
• YUI

The project is designed for deployment on AppEngine please review their documentation for deployment instructions. Once deployed hit: http://{YOUR APP}.appspot.com/admin, you should be asked to login with your google username and password. Once inside you will need to setup listing settings, movie sources and categories.

Movie Listing Settings: The settings consist of two paths, used to extract the torrent name and leach count from the YQL result.

E.g. for The Pirate Bay

Name XPath:

//a[starts-with(@href, "/torrent")]

Leaches XPath:

//td[4]/p

Movie Listing Sources: This is a YQL query used to scrape a torrent site, it should be paired with a movie listing setting.

E.g. The Pirate Bay YQL:

select * from html where url="http://thepiratebay.org/browse/201/0/9" and xpath='//table[@id="searchResult"]/tr'

Categories: These are used to group movies on the home page, they are sourced from IMDB genres.

MIT

Sam Cavenagh cavenaghweb@hotmail.com