WhatAPI

What, Python style.

API Endpoints

GET /what/torrents/search

GET parameters must be properly URL-encoded, with the exception that spaces may be replaced by a "+" sign. Parameters may be any combination of the following options:

• page: page of results to show. each page shows 50 results (e.g. page=1 shows 1-50, page=2 shows 51-100, etc.)

• artistname: artist name

• groupname: album/torrent name

• recordlabel: record label

• cataloguenumber: catalogue number

• year: year of original release

• remastertitle: remaster title

• remasteryear: remaster release year

• remasterrecordlabel: remaster record label

• remastercataloguenumber: remaster catalogue number

• filelist: file name list

• taglist: comma-separated list of tags to match. use !tag to exclude tag.

• bitrate:

• 192
• APS (VBR)
• V2 (VBR)
• V1 (VBR)
• 256
• APX (VBR)
• V0 (VBR)
• q8.x (VBR)
• 320
• Lossless
• 24bit Lossless

• format:

• MP3
• FLAC
• Ogg Vorbis
• AAC
• AC3
• DTS

• media:

• CD
• DVD
• Vinyl
• Soundboard
• SACD
• DAT
• Cassette
• WEB
• Blu-ray

• releasetype:

• 1
• 3
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 9
• 11
• 13
• 14
• 15
• 16
• 21

• haslog:

• 1
• 0
• 100
• -1

• hascue:

• 1
• 0

• scene:

• 0 - show only groups that do not have any scene torrents
• 1 - show only groups that have at least one scene torrent

• freetorrent:

• 0 - show only groups that do not have any freeleech torrents
• 1 - show only groups that have at least one freeleech torrent

• tags_type:

• 0 - match any tag in taglist
• 1 - match all tags in taglist

• order_by:

• time - orders by uploaded time of most recent torrent in group
• size - orders by size of largest torrent in group
• snatched - orders by total snatches for all torrents in group
• seeders - orders by total seeders for all torrents in group
• leechers - orders by total leechers for all torrents in group

• order_way:

• asc - sort ascending
• desc - sort descending

JSON return:

options: {
  all: "client-",
  provided: "GET",
  params: "passed",
  to: "the",
  search: "page."
},
results: {
  time: 140.5 /* time spent processing request in milliseconds */
  result_count: 1000 /* total results on what.cd */
  results_more: 1 /* indicates if result_count shows with a + sign on the site. site shows 1000+ for pages 1-10, 1500+ for pages 11-20, 2000+ for pages 21-30, etc... n+, where n = 1000 + 500*floor((page-1)/10) */
  result_first: 1 /* index of first result on page (page_number * 50 - 49) */
  result_last: 50 /* index of last result on page (result_first + group_count) */
  group_count: 50 /* groups returned */
  groups: [ 
    /* groups are ordered the same as the results from what.cd */
    {
      result: 1,
      id: 12,
      type: "music"
      name: "group name"
      artist_id: 23,
      artist_name: "group name",
      year: 2011,
      tags: ["tag", "another.tag"],
      torrent_ids: [234,345,456]
    }, { ... }, { ... }
  ],
  torrent_count: 312 /* torrents shown on this page */
  torrents: [
    {
      id: 234,
      edition_str: "2011 - Title / Label / Cat#",
      edition: {
        year: 2011,
        title: "Title",
        label: "Record label",
        cat_number: "Cat#"
      }
      group_id: 12,
      format: "FLAC",
      bitrate: "Lossless",
      log: 1,
      log_score: 100,
      cue: 1,
      media: "CD",
      files: 17,
      uploaded: 827493024, /* unix timestamp */
      size: "123.21 MB",
      seeders: 1,
      leechers: 2,
      snatches: 3
    }, { ... }, { ... }
  ]
}