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I think it's a great idea, and a nifty hack.

It might be an to release a diff against this once a week, and write a quick script to grab it, keeping the list up-to-date.

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I am thinking of releasing new versions once a week and putting the hash of the torrent of the newest version on some public site. (Say, some twitter account.)

But it would still be more proof of concept than really anything useful - the comments and descriptions ARE important.

edit: More I am thinking about it, the less useful it sounds.

First, the information about seeders vary constantly, especially with the new torrents.

Also, it STILL depends on single point of failure - the Pirate Bay itself. If TPB will be down for any reason, I will have no place to scrape this from and it will all fall apart anyway.

Plus, I think Pirate Bay itself should make dumps like this. It would probably be much better for their database anyway :)

I like the idea of a weekly twitter update with the master magnet hash. I feel like the purpose would not be the usefulness of the string of chars, but more to prove a point.

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