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kickass-api

Kat-api

KAT (Kickass Torrent) api wrapper with mirror fallback and advanced search parameters.

Simple search

var kat = require('kat-api');

kat.search('test').then(function (data) {
        console.log(data);
    }).catch(function (error) {
        console.log(error);
    });

Advanced search

kat.search({
        query: 'Anger Management',
        category: 'tv',
        min_seeds: '10',
        uploader: 'ettv',
        sort_by: 'seeders',
        order: 'desc',
        verified: 1,
        language: 'en'
    }).then(function (data) {
        console.log(data);
    }).catch(function (error) {
        console.log(error);
    });

Output example:

response:

page: 2
response_time: 743
results: Array[25]
total_pages: 824
total_results: 20578

results:

{ 0
    {
        category: "TV"
        comments: 16
        files: 3
        guid: "http://kat.cr/anger-management-s02e34-hdtv-xvid-afg-t7861470.html"
        hash: "8427C27F3081F7B05E1F036B851A6847124D73F5"
        leechs: 2
        link: "http://kat.cr/anger-management-s02e34-hdtv-xvid-afg-t7861470.html"
        magnet: "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:8427C27F3081F7B05E1F036B851A6847124D73F5&dn=anger+management+s02e34+hdtv+xvid+afg&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337"
        peers: 18
        pubDate: "Friday 13 Sep 2013 02:32:42 +0000"
        seeds: 16
        size: 178012276
        title: "Anger Management S02E34 HDTV XviD-AFG"
        torrentLink: "http://torcache.net/torrent/8427C27F3081F7B05E1F036B851A6847124D73F5.torrent?title=[kat.cr]anger.management.s02e34.hdtv.xvid.afg"
        verified: 1
        votes: 81
    }
}

Use example:

We'll display the magnet link for the most seeded 'Anger Management' episode.

var kat = require('kat-api');
kat.search({
    query: 'Anger Management',
    sort_by: 'seeders'
}).then(function (response) {
    console.log(response.results[0].magnet);
}).catch(function (error) {
    console.log('an error occured');
});

Parameters

KAT search requires at least 1 of the following queries: query, category, min_seeds, uploader, safety_filter, verified, language, age

Every other parameter is optionnal.

--

• query: search terms.

• as shown on the above examples, it can be passed simply as a string: search('string') if you don't use any other parameter.

• category: possible values: tv|movies|anime|applications|books|games|music|xxx|other * Subcategories can also be used in the category parameter, but I won't list them.

• min_seeds: a number, integer. Can be contained in a string.

• The torrent must be seeded by at least min_seeds people.

• uploader: a KickassTorrent's username.

• The torrent was uploaded by uploader.

• imdb: IMDB id - movies only

• You can pass the entire id or just the figures: 'tt2561572' or '2561572'.

• tvrage: TVRage id - tv only

• sort_by: possible values: seeders|leechers|time_add|files_count

• order: possible values: asc|desc

• safety_filter: 0 or 1. (1=true, 0=false)

• This option turns off all the pornographic content.

• verified: 0 or 1 (1=true, 0=false)

• The torrent has been identified as 'not fake' by the community

• language: langcode or language ID (see below) - only for Movie or TV

• The spoken language. Example: en or 2.

• age: possible values: hour|24h|week|month|year

• The torrent has been uploaded in the last hour,day,week,month,year.

• page: integer.

• KAT uses 25 results max per page, navigate between pages (1 to X)

Errors

• Regular HTTP request errors.

• Regular Javascript errors.

• Missing a mandatory parameter: you made an error somewhere.

• No data: this happens when the server sent back a statusCode > 400 or if the something went wrong with the request, but the server answered.

• No results: 0 results found. Catch this error to warn your user there were no results for its request, or to know when you reached last page.

Languages

About the language parameter:

• English: 'en' (id:2)
• Albanian: 'sq' (id:42)
• Arabic: 'ar' (id:7)
• Basque: 'eu' (id:44)
• Bengali: 'bn' (id:46)
• Brazilian: 'pt-br' (id:39)
• Bulgarian: 'bg' (id:37)
• Cantonese: 'yue' (id:45)
• Catalan: 'ca' (id:47)
• Chinese: 'zh' (id:10)
• Croatian: 'hr' (id:34)
• Czech: 'cs' (id:32)
• Danish: 'da' (id:26)
• Dutch: 'nl' (id:8)
• Filipino: 'tl' (id:11)
• Finnish: 'fi' (id:31)
• French: 'fr' (id:5)
• German: 'de' (id:4)
• Greek: 'el' (id:30)
• Hebrew: 'he' (id:25)
• Hindi: 'hi' (id:6)
• Hungarian: 'hu' (id:27)
• Italian: 'it' (id:3)
• Japanese: 'ja' (id:15)
• Kannada: 'kn' (id:49)
• Korean: 'ko' (id:16)
• Lithuanian: 'lt' (id:43)
• Malayalam: 'ml' (id:21)
• Mandarin: 'cmn' (id:23)
• Nepali: 'ne' (id:48)
• Norwegian: 'no' (id:19)
• Persian: 'fa' (id:33)
• Polish: 'pl' (id:9)
• Portuguese: 'pt' (id:17)
• Punjabi: 'pa' (id:35)
• Romanian: 'ro' (id:18)
• Russian: 'ru' (id:12)
• Serbian: 'sr' (id:28)
• Slovenian: 'sl' (id:36)
• Spanish (latin america): '' (id:41) //no langcode, use ID.
• Spanish: 'es' (id:14)
• Swedish: 'sv' (id:20)
• Tamil: 'ta' (id:13)
• Telugu: 'te' (id:22)
• Thai: 'th' (id:24)
• Turkish: 'tr' (id:29)
• Ukrainian: 'uk' (id:40)
• Vietnamese: 'vi' (id:38)