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Torrent Harvester 0.7b

4.2 (19 votes)

(June 17, 2006)

Windows (All) / Freeware / 94,915 downloads

Torrent Harvester is a search program for any type of file contained on a web page. It is not limited to searching for Torrents and can search for any type of file given the proper Engine file. It was developed with flexibility in mind. There is nothing hard-coded for a particular web-page, all Engine information is stored in user-modifiable XML files or through the included Engine Designer. This makes it possible for users to add Engines for their own favourite Torrent sites, or indeed any sites which list information.

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Publisher
FidoFuz
Homepage
Torrent Harvester
Requirements
.Net Framework 1.1
Uninstaller
Yes
Latest Changes
- Since the previous release, many engines no longer work due to the fact that the sites they are based have been either redesigned, or no longer exist. I won't list all the new, removed, or modified engines. A complete list of engines release with this v

- Moved website to http://TorrentHarvester.awardspace.com and created a new support forum at http://THForum.awardspace.com

- Created a Main Menu to allow for all the new options

- Removed engines from settings and added to main screen via a toggle button "status". Engines can now be selected/deselected from here. This screen now also serves as a progress/status screen which will show the progress of any currently running engines

- Added a more descriptive status message in the status bar when searching

- Added "field type" to Engine Designer, thus removing the need to specifically set a field type when adding new columns in settings to the search list. This will however mean a possible conflict with two engines having the same field name but of differen

- Added "hidden" to Engine Designer fields to allow fields to be excluded from the available columns in the columns dialog

- Created a Columns Dialog from the Columns tab in settings

- Added filtering on any column which is displayed in the search list. The filters can be altered at any time (even mid-search). The main search still returns the same results, but the list is only populated with files matching the filter criteria. You ca

- Added a checkbox to the settings to turn off the display of the tooltip when the mouse hovers over individual file entries

- Added option in settings to limit the number of results per engine, and also to limit the number of pages returned from a search

- Added option to ask before executing downloaded files

- Rerigged the multitasking to eliminate blocking conflicts. Also updating controls from the thread on which they were created

- Added a mainmenu to take care of the additional options

- Added an option to change the font which is used in the search results

- Moved the selection of which columns are displayed in the list from the settings dialog to a dialog of it's own

- Redesigned the Engine Designer, again... trying to make it simpler. I won't go into details about all the changes, I'd be surprised if anyone out there has actually managed to make a new Engine without help. Up until now It's only really been of use to

- Removed the need to log into Engines which use websites which require user login. Login information is now retrieved directly from the cookies stored by your browser

- Created a form to allow changing of the folder which contains the cookies

- Added an option to check for the Torrent Harvester website for Program updates and Engine updates and install them if the user wishes

- Fixed glitches in download window

- Fixed many of the Engines which had either had site redesign or sites gone down

- Created help and dumped the readme

- Many fixes, updates, and overhauls too numerous to mention individually but which basically makes a huge step forward over version 0.6b

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FeMaster
Reviewing 0.7b (Sep 23, 2007)

The program is excellent, and well designed. According to the author, there has been some issues with site hosting, and he was evicted from his previous site (that which is linked to in the current version 0.7b). If you are looking for the current official website, it is located at: http://www.torrent-harvester.com

I'm hopeful that the author can continue his work on the project, and release an update to the software soon, so that it at least reflects the site change, so others don't think that the program has been abandoned...

Now that we have a link to the official site, perhaps he can get some donations to help off-set the costs associate with the time it takes to write such a great piece of software...
photonboy
Reviewing 0.7b (May 23, 2007)

Awesome!

A must have for any downloader. You must try this!
RaGhul
Reviewing 0.7b (Apr 22, 2007)

Great piece of software!! Simple, works.
It's not too obvious from the description, but you'll need .NET to make this work. So, if you're having problems, that's your culprit.

I, too, have the 'flashing window' thingy. Hopefully, this will be fixed soon.

(C'mon developers! Where are the updates?)

@pychobj2001
All you gotta do is right-click in the result window to download.
')

[EDIT]
The TorrentHarvester website is no longer up, so I think this is officially a 'dead project'.
Damn shame.
Joakim Christiansen
Reviewing 0.7b (Apr 13, 2007)

I love this piece of software, it searches trough all torrent pages and helps you find the torrents with most seeds (which means greater speed when downloading). It's true that it got some display problems on Windows Vista, but I can live with that.
pychobj2001
Reviewing 0.7b (Mar 28, 2007)

I don't like this, but not because it's not a good piece of software, but because it doesn't download or display the files...it just tells you how many results were on a specific website, which I can do myself because most of the sites that are listed are no good and give false positive on any result because they have horrible search engines. so I'll just stick to "isohunt, and mininova" and you'll be better off...or get TadTV....

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