Find magnet links (Torrents) through an easy to use interface that doesn't track you or tries to serve you invasive adverts.
Installation is simple and only takes a few minutes.
You'll need a working (localhost) server that works with PHP 8 or newer. cURL and common PHP modules as standard, and that's it.
- Download the zip file from Github.
- Extract and upload all files to your webserver, this can be in the document root or a subfolder.
For example https://domain.tld/goosetor/ or simply https://domain.tld/. - Copy
goosetor.htaccessto.htaccess. - Copy
default-config.phptoconfig.php. - Open the
config.phpfile and set your settings.
Each setting is briefly explained in the file. There are a few settings for caching, what torrent quality to look for, and you set your shared access key here. - For testing you can enable the
ERROR_LOGandSUCCESS_LOGsettings.
This logs errors and successful runs toerror.logandsuccess.login the root folder.
Visit: https://yourdomain.com/search.php?access=the-access-key
This page can be bookmarked for ease of use.
It's a search engine. Search for something, click a result to add the torrent to your bittorrent client. Or, if you use Transmission Web on a different computer you can enable support for it and all relevant result links will point to your Transmission Web setup. Check the 'help' link in the footer for more in-depth usage details.
GooseTOR supports GooseRSS, if you've enabled the feature in your config.php and GooseTOR detects a TV Show a share link will appear in the search results so you can subscribe to the TV Show.
In config.php you can enable support for Transmission Web. This sets up a special link to add clicked results directly to Transmission Web. Normally if you'd click a result the magnet link in it triggers your local Torrent Client to start downloading the content. With Transmission Web support enabled GooseTOR quickly negotiates a connection with it and adds the magnet to it. This briefly opens a popup/tab and on modern browsers should also close that tab after a second or two.
This process, other than the initial setup is completely automated for the highest ease of use.