trusearch

CLI tool to perform advanced search on unofficial rutracker.org (ex torrents.ru) XML database. It doesn't require mandatory conversion of unofficial XML into own indexed format. Binary builds are available for Windows/MacOS/Linux/*BSD/Android.

Installation

Binaries

Pre-built binaries are available here.

Build from source

Alternatively, you may install trusearch from source. Run the following within the source directory:

make install

Modes of operation

• scan - Scan XML and apply JS function defined by script file
• forums - Scan XML and print CSV with forum IDs and names
• split - Divide XML file into smaller ones by Forum ID
• help - Print CLI synopsis

Split

Example:

trusearch split --dir=/arc/user/tru ~/rutracker-20210601.xml

It may take a long time to split whole collection (about 10 minutes). However, after splitting search over specific forums runs within few seconds.

Forums

Example:

trusearch forums ~/rutracker-20210601.xml > ~/forums.csv

Scan

Search with inline script:

trusearch scan --inline 'let re = /Жанр:.*(adventure|приключение)/iu; (function (elem) { if (strip_bbcode(elem.Content).match(re)) { print("https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=" + elem.ID) } })' /arc/user/tru/forum_1992.xml

Same with script in file:

trusearch scan 1.js /arc/user/tru/forum_1992.xml

, having 1.js content as follows:

let re = /Жанр:.*(adventure|приключение)/iu;

(function (elem) {
	if (strip_bbcode(elem.Content).match(re)) {
		print("https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=" + elem.ID)
	}
})

See trusearch --help for more help on commands and trusearch COMMAND --help for help on specific command.

JS runtime

trusearch uses JavaScript to allow user implement any matching or aggregation logic they want. JS interpreter used by program is goja, pure-Go implementation of ECMAScript 5.1. trusearch extends JS runtime with few native built-ins for user's convenience.

Functions

Function	Arguments	Return value	Description
perror	value, ...	None	Prints values to stderr
print	value, ...	None	Prints values to stdout
strip_bbcode	string	string	Renders text with BBCode tags into plain text (strips tags)

Scan mode

In scan mode program expects provided script to be evaluated into a function. So, minimal example of such script is:

(function (torrent) {})

For each torrent scanned torrent record trusearch invokes such function with a single argument holding object with torrent record:

Property	Type	Description
torrent.ID	string	Topic ID at rutracker forum
torrent.RegisteredAt	string	Torrent registration date in same format as in XML
torrent.Size	string	Torrent size
torrent.Torrent.Hash	string	Bittorrent info hash. Can be used to generate DHT magnet link, not depending on tracker
torrent.Torrent.TrackerID	string	rutracker tracker server ID
torrent.Forum.ID	string	Forum ID
torrent.Forum.Name	string	Forum name
torrent.Content	string	Post contents in BBCode. Use strip_bbcode function if you need plain text with tags stripped
torrent.Deleted	int	1 if deleted and 0 otherwise

Script may store state between function invocations in variables or objects defined outside function. In examples presented above we reuse RegExp compiled once across all function invokations.

Also user may define optional begin and end functions in script. If defined, begin() will be invoked before iteration and end() will be invoked after. It's correct to define either of them, both, or none. Example:

function begin() {
	print("begin")
}

function end() {
	print("end")
}

(function () {
	print("record")
})