Keeping an eye on The Pirate Bay top items
Disclaimer: I don’t download copyrighted material, unless I already own the movie/album/application.
Frequently, the things I download most from The Pirate Bay appear on the Total Top 100 page. There’s no RSS feed, but with a handy shell script and GeekTool for the Mac, I can slap the latest updates straight onto my desktop – where I can keep an eye on it…
Here’s how…
First up, download and install GeekTool.
Next, download and unzip this script to your /Users/YOURNAME/Library/Scripts folder.
TPB Top Items.sh.zip (1KB)
Open GeekTool in the System Preferences and create a Shell entry. The command should look like…
sh "/Users/YOURNAME/Library/Scripts/TPB Top Items.sh" -12
If you want to show more items from the list, just change the “-12″ part to the number of items you want. And if you want to scrape a different page on TPB site, open up the script and change the URL. For example, to grab a list of the latest Mac applications submitted, you would use this URL: https://thepiratebay.org/browse/302/0/3
IMPORTANT! You should change the GeekTool refresh value to over 600 (I’d recommend 1200 – 20 minutes), otherwise TPB may ban you for constantly hitting the website, and you’ll probably get me into hot water too.
