Features :

• Search for movie torrents

• Get the details of any movie which includes :

  • Torrent details of 720p,1080p,3D quality

  • Torrent Magnet links and hashes along with their size and seeds

  • imdb_code

  • Imdb Rating and MPA rating

  • Year

  • Runtime

  • Summary

  • Movie Description

All the above Details are obtained in the form of attributes of Yify.movie object each object representing a movie.

• Get the Top Most Seeded Torrents listed in the Yify Website

• Download the torrent file of a corresponding torrent.

• Start the torrent download directly without having to download it from the user’s default torrent client.

Installation :

Python3

pip install pyYify

or

pip3 install pyYify

First import yify to use its functions.

from pyYify import yify

There are two classes in yify namely ‘movie’ and ‘torrent’.

Search for movies.

On searching , it returns a list of movies (movie objects) .

movies_list = yify.search_movies(search_string , quality , minimum_rating , genre)

The search_string for the movie can be ‘Movie Title,IMDb Code, Actor Name, Director Name’. quality = ‘All’ , ‘720p’ , ‘1080p’ , ‘3D’. minimum_rating is an imdb_rating. genre = See https://www.imdb.com/genre/ for a list of genres.

Get the top seeded movies from Yify

movies_list  = yify.get_top_seeded_torrents() ;

Returns a list of movies, each movie object only contains its Name and Webpage unlike the searching method which has all the details in the returned movies. To get the rest of the movie details use getinfo() method.

for movie in movies_list:
    movie.getinfo() ;

• Each movie Object has the following data :

  • id

  • url

  • imdb_code

  • title

  • title_long

  • slug

  • year

  • rating

  • runtime

  • genres

  • summary

  • description

  • language

  • mpa_rating

  • image_links

  • torrents

The movie.torrents is a list of torrents each of which corresponds to the torrent of same movie but of different quality. (‘720p’ , ‘1080p’ or ‘3D’ )

• Each torrent has the following data :

  • name

  • url

  • magnet

  • hash

  • quality

  • seeds

  • peers

  • size

  • date_uploaded

movie1 = movies_list[0]
torrent1 = movie1.torrents[0]

print("Magnet link = " , torrent1.magnet)

Downloading the Torrent file of a movie

torrent1.download_torrent_file( path , filename )

Starting the download directly using magnet link without downloading the torrent file .

This starts the default torrent client prompting the download dialog :

torrent1.start_download()