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+cp pirate-get-py3.py /usr/bin/pirate-get
diff --git a/pirate-get-py3.py b/pirate-get-py3.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import webbrowser
+import urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error
+import re
+from html.parser import HTMLParser
+import argparse
+
+
+# create a subclass and override the handler methods
+class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
+    title = ''
+    q = ''
+    state = 'looking'
+    results = []
+
+    def __init__(self, q):
+        HTMLParser.__init__(self)
+        self.q = q.lower()
+
+    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
+        if tag == 'title':
+            self.state = 'title'
+        if tag == 'magnet' and self.state == 'matched':
+            self.state = 'magnet'
+
+    def handle_data(self, data):
+        if self.state == 'title':
+            if data.lower().find(self.q) != -1:
+                self.title = data
+                self.state = 'matched'
+            else:
+                self.state = 'looking'
+        if self.state == 'magnet':
+            self.results.append(['magnet:?xt=urn:btih:' + urllib.parse.quote(data) + '&dn=' + urllib.parse.quote(self.title), '?', '?'])
+            self.state = 'looking'
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Finds and downloads torrents from the Pirate Bay')
+    parser.add_argument('q', metavar='search_term', help="The term to search for")
+    parser.add_argument('--local', dest='database', help="An xml file containing the Pirate Bay database")
+    parser.add_argument('-p', dest='pages', help="The number of pages to fetch (doesn't work with --local)", default=1)
+
+    def local(args):
+        xml_str = ''
+        with open(args.database, 'r') as f:
+            xml_str += f.read()
+        htmlparser = MyHTMLParser(args.q)
+        htmlparser.feed(xml_str)
+        return htmlparser.results
+
+    #todo: redo this with html parser instead of regex
+    def remote(args):
+        res_l = []
+        try:
+            pages = int(args.pages)
+            if pages < 1:
+                raise Exception('')
+        except Exception:
+            raise Exception("Please provide an integer greater than 0 for the number of pages to fetch.")
+
+        for page in range(pages):
+            f = urllib.request.urlopen('http://thepiratebay.se/search/' + args.q.replace(" ", "+") + '/' + str(page) + '/7/0')
+            res = f.read()
+            found = re.findall(b""""(magnet\:\?xt=[^"]*)|<td align="right">([^<]+)</td>""", res)
+            state = "seeds"
+            curr = ['',0,0] #magnet, seeds, leeches
+            for f in found:
+                if f[1] == b'':
+                    curr[0] = f[0]
+                else:
+                    if state == 'seeds':
+                        curr[1] = f[1]
+                        state = 'leeches'
+                    else:
+                        curr[2] = f[1]
+                        state = 'seeds'
+                        res_l.append(curr)
+                        curr = ['', 0, 0]
+        return res_l
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    if args.database:
+        mags = local(args)
+    else:
+        mags = remote(args)
+
+    if mags and len(mags) > 0:
+        print("S=seeders")
+        print("L=leechers")
+        for m in range(len(mags)):
+            magnet = mags[m]
+            name = re.search(b"dn=([^\&]*)", magnet[0])
+            if name == None:
+                name = ''
+            else:
+                name = urllib.parse.unquote(name.group(1).decode("utf-8")).replace("+", " ")
+            print(str(m) + '. S:' + magnet[1].decode("utf-8") + ' L:' + magnet[2].decode("utf-8") + ' ', name)
+        l = input("Select a link: ")
+        try:
+            choice = int(l)
+        except Exception:
+            choice = None
+        if not choice == None:
+            webbrowser.open(mags[choice][0])
+        else:
+            print("Cancelled.")
+    else:
+        print("no results")
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()