A script to search for mp3 on the web
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Theres this great site called http://filesearch.cz.cc/ that i use, but its hosted on free hosting and is breaking the ToS so is now permanently suspended... oh wait.
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Ummm take a chill pill folks....
Not all MP3, video files, images , text content or even torrents have been stolen/ pirated or are subject to any draconian copyright restrictions.
Provided the sites of the being searched permit the re-use of their content under some form of the Creative Commons Liscence such as the InternetArchive.com then a search script could extract and index content for display your site all perfectly legally. (torrents are a mixed bucket of worms that I'd avoid going near) . This is still technically "site - scraping" and frowned upon under the TOS here, however it never hurts to ask admin here for their opinion as such sites have a tendancy to grow rapidly and soon outstrip the facilities available under a free hosting account.
Running a search script on a free account here is not exactly easy, the ability to access an external URL was blocked some time ago to prevent wholesale site scraping so file_get_contents and cURL don't work here. There are workarounds such as the Yahoo-Pipes service that allow friendly 'scraping' (you have no control over the user agent string and it obeys the robots.txt file of a target site), this is however undergoing an overhaul/upgrade and is a little flaky at present but has been used to great effect because it's a javascript API and as such does not run on the X10 servers. It's also very easy to use with a graphical drag/drop interface for building the pipes/apps, nevertheless it's well worth a look.
Not all MP3, video files, images , text content or even torrents have been stolen/ pirated or are subject to any draconian copyright restrictions.
Provided the sites of the being searched permit the re-use of their content under some form of the Creative Commons Liscence such as the InternetArchive.com then a search script could extract and index content for display your site all perfectly legally. (torrents are a mixed bucket of worms that I'd avoid going near) . This is still technically "site - scraping" and frowned upon under the TOS here, however it never hurts to ask admin here for their opinion as such sites have a tendancy to grow rapidly and soon outstrip the facilities available under a free hosting account.
Running a search script on a free account here is not exactly easy, the ability to access an external URL was blocked some time ago to prevent wholesale site scraping so file_get_contents and cURL don't work here. There are workarounds such as the Yahoo-Pipes service that allow friendly 'scraping' (you have no control over the user agent string and it obeys the robots.txt file of a target site), this is however undergoing an overhaul/upgrade and is a little flaky at present but has been used to great effect because it's a javascript API and as such does not run on the X10 servers. It's also very easy to use with a graphical drag/drop interface for building the pipes/apps, nevertheless it's well worth a look.
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file_get_contents and cURL were re-enabled a while ago ;-)
The OP was hosting a torrents / music search engine, both of which are against the ToS. His account is now suspended.
I'm going to close this thread now, PM me if you have any queries.
The OP was hosting a torrents / music search engine, both of which are against the ToS. His account is now suspended.
I'm going to close this thread now, PM me if you have any queries.
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