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Jamie Wilkinson http://tramchase.com

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Scrape torrents on btjunkie

// download all .torrent links on the btjunkie frontpage
//
// more fun with mechanize @
// http://tramchase.com/scrape-myspace-youtube-torrents-for-fun-and-profit

agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
agent.get("http://btjunkie.org/")
links = agent.page.search('.tor_details tr a')
hrefs = links.map { |m| m['href'] }.select { |u| u =~ /\.torrent$/ } # just links ending in .torrent
FileUtils.mkdir_p('btjunkie-torrents') # keep it neat
hrefs.each { |torrent|
  filename = "btjunkie-torrents/#{torrent[0].split('/')[-2]}"
  puts "Saving #{torrent} as #{filename}"
  agent.get(torrent).save_as(filename)
}
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