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IRC XDCC servers have similar content to many torrent sites, but unlike torrents you don't seed, just download. You can also automate downloading, see !help in any channel.

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[–] B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It's actually not that hard to build your own search engine for specific server/channel.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'm looking more for a generic approach, so users can register any search engine of their choice (as long as it returns a json result set I guess)

[–] B4DR0B0T@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

I think only one has api SunXDCC and its bad. Best code your own apis for that.