BitTorrent RSS Feed Toolbar for Firefox

posted by soulxtc in bittorrent // 549 days 14 hours 7 minutes ago

There's a great BitTorrent toolbar extension available for Firefox that allows you to search torrent tracker sites either by keyword or to simply scan through their RSS Feeds

It's fully customizable and provides search options for over 32 BitTorrent torrent tracker sites. From MiniNova to BushTorrent, from TorrentReactor to BtJunkie, it has a wide of variety of public and semi-private sites to choose from.

In addition to allowing you to search each site by keyword it has another great feature that allows you to quickly scan through the RSS Feeds of the sites as well. With the click of a toolbar button it will display the either the latest uploaded torrent traackers overall or by category.

The only drawback about the toolbar is that it comes with a lot of what I call "fluff," unnecessary features and buttons that really aren't needed at all. I'll go through these real quick so we can focus on what the Torrent Search toolbar has to offer.

Here is what it looks like just after installation

....and here is how more or less want it to look

To get started click the "Torrent Search" toolbar tab and scroll down to "Toolbar Options."

In the "Personal Components" section I'd deselected them all. The "E-mail Notifier" is kind of a cool feature as it allows you to get a popup alert whenever you receive an e-mail as you surf the internet but, unless you have more than a handful of e-mail accounts it's kind of unnecessary. The Popup Blocker and Weather Forecaster speak for themselves: spam.

In the "Predefined Components" section there's only 3 you really need, the RSS Feeds and the quick links, each of them selected below.

This last one, "Useful Components," is kind of an added bonus though altogether unneeded. I tend to use MS Paint and Notepad a lot, so it's nice to have a toolbar quicklaunch link at hand.

So now that we have the Torrent Search toolbar "fine-tuned" it should roughly look like this:

The first feature of the toolbar, the search query allows you to search for torrent trackers "Google style." Type in the name of the torrent tracker you're looking for in the top and then select which site you wish to search. The screenshot below shows an example search for "Lost" on The Pirate Bay.

...and here are some of the sites that you can choose to search from.

The next feature on the toolbar is the first of the RSS Feeds to look through. It carries the RSS Feeds of The Pirate Bay and a handful of others, the list of which is shown below. You can scroll down each feed and take a look at all the new torrent trackers listed for each of those sites, and then merely click on the ones that interest you.

The next RSS Feed button on the toolbar separates the torrent tracker sites by category to make your search even easier. Categories include: Music, Music Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Games, Software, Anime, Books, Audio Books, Comics, Pictures, and Other. Again choose a category and then scroll down the torrent trackers for the one that you want to download.

All in all the Torrent Search toolbar is a pretty darn easy way to click through some of these more popular public torrent tracker site RSS Feeds without ever having to leave whatever page you may be looking at it. Live Bookmarks for Firefox for is always another option but, this toolbar limits its to a single button and doesn't clutter your Bookmarks Toolbar.