---
id: theoldschool-api
name: The Old School (API)
description: "The Old School is a FRENCH Private Torrent Tracker for MOVIES / TV / GENERAL"
language: fr-FR
type: private
encoding: UTF-8
links:
- https://theoldschool.cc/
caps:
categorymappings:
- {id: 1, cat: Movies, desc: "Films"}
- {id: 6, cat: Movies, desc: "Films VOSTFR"}
- {id: 2, cat: TV, desc: "Series"}
- {id: 7, cat: TV, desc: "Series VOSTFR"}
- {id: 8, cat: TV, desc: "Series Pack"}
- {id: 9, cat: TV, desc: "Series Pack VOSTFR"}
- {id: 3, cat: Books, desc: "Ebooks"}
- {id: 4, cat: Console, desc: "Jeux"}
- {id: 5, cat: PC, desc: "Logiciel"}
- {id: 10, cat: TV/Sport, desc: "Sports"}
modes:
search: [q]
tv-search: [q, season, ep, imdbid, tvdbid, tmdbid]
movie-search: [q, imdbid, tmdbid]
music-search: [q]
book-search: [q]
settings:
- name: apikey
type: text
label: APIKey
- name: info_key
type: info
label: About your API key
default: "Find or Generate a new API Token by accessing your The Old School account My Security page and clicking on the API Token tab."
- name: freeleech
type: checkbox
label: Search freeleech only
default: false
- name: multilang
type: checkbox
label: Replace MULTi by another language in release name
default: false
- name: multilanguage
type: select
label: Replace MULTi by this language
default: FRENCH
options:
FRENCH: FRENCH
MULTi FRENCH: MULTi FRENCH
ENGLISH: ENGLISH
MULTi ENGLISH: MULTi ENGLISH
VOSTFR: VOSTFR
MULTi VOSTFR: MULTi VOSTFR
- name: vostfr
type: checkbox
label: Replace VOSTFR and SUBFRENCH with ENGLISH
default: false
- name: vfq
type: checkbox
label: Replace VFQ with FRENCH
default: false
- name: sort
type: select
label: Sort requested from site
default: created_at
options:
created_at: created
seeders: seeders
size: size
name: title
- name: type
type: select
label: Order requested from site
default: desc
options:
desc: desc
asc: asc
- name: info_activity
type: info
label: Account Inactivity
default: "'Pruning' account- Your membership requires that you remain active at TOS.
- To not be disabled, you must log in to the tracker at least once every 90 days or continuously see at least 1 torrent. If you haven't logged in for more than 90 days and you don't have any seed torrents as of midnight UTC, your account will be deactivated.
- To be reactivated, you also have 30 days to log in and show that your account is back to normal.
- Disabled account: 90 days of inactivity and no seed torrent.
- 'Pruned' account: Has been deactivated for 30 days , and 90 days of inactivity.
"
login:
path: /api/torrents
method: get
inputs: {} # TODO: remove in v10
error:
- selector: a[href*="/login"]
message:
text: "The API key was not accepted by {{ .Config.sitelink }}."
search:
paths:
# https://github.com/HDInnovations/UNIT3D-Community-Edition/wiki/Torrent-API-(UNIT3D-v8.x.x)
# https://github.com/HDInnovations/UNIT3D-Community-Edition/blob/master/app/Http/Controllers/API/TorrentController.php#L476
- path: "/api/torrents/filter"
response:
type: json
headers:
Authorization: ["Bearer {{ .Config.apikey }}"]
inputs:
# if we have an id based search, add Season and Episode as query in name for UNIT3D < v6. Else pass S/E Params for UNIT3D >= v6
$raw: "{{ range .Categories }}&categories[]={{.}}{{end}}"
name: "{{ .Keywords }}"
seasonNumber: "{{ .Query.Season }}"
episodeNumber: "{{ .Query.Ep }}"
imdbId: "{{ .Query.IMDBIDShort }}"
tmdbId: "{{ .Query.TMDBID }}"
tvdbId: "{{ .Query.TVDBID }}"
"free[]": "{{ if .Config.freeleech }}100{{ else }}{{ end }}"
sortField: "{{ .Config.sort }}"
sortDirection: "{{ .Config.type }}"
perPage: 100
keywordsfilters:
- name: re_replace
args: ["\\.", " "]
rows:
selector: data
attribute: attributes
count:
selector: meta.total
fields:
category:
selector: category_id
title_phase1:
selector: name
title_vfq:
text: "{{ .Result.title_phase1 }}"
filters:
- name: re_replace
args: ["(?i)\\b(VFQ)\\b", "FRENCH"]
title_phase2:
text: "{{ if .Config.vfq }}{{ .Result.title_vfq }}{{ else }}{{ .Result.title_phase1 }}{{ end }}"
title_vostfr:
text: "{{ .Result.title_phase2 }}"
filters:
- name: re_replace
args: ["(?i)\\b(vostfr|subfrench)\\b", "ENGLISH"]
title_phase3:
text: "{{ if .Config.vostfr }}{{ .Result.title_vostfr }}{{ else }}{{ .Result.title_phase2 }}{{ end }}"
title_multilang:
text: "{{ .Result.title_phase3 }}"
filters:
- name: re_replace
args: ["(?i)\\b(MULTI(?!.*(?:FRENCH|ENGLISH|VOSTFR)))\\b", "{{ .Config.multilanguage }}"]
title:
text: "{{ if .Config.multilang }}{{ .Result.title_multilang }}{{ else }}{{ .Result.title_phase3 }}{{ end }}"
details:
selector: details_link
download:
selector: download_link
infohash:
selector: info_hash
poster:
selector: meta.poster
filters:
- name: replace
args: ["https://via.placeholder.com/90x135", ""]
imdbid:
selector: imdb_id
tmdbid:
selector: tmdb_id
tvdbid:
selector: tvdb_id
genre:
selector: meta.genres
filters:
- name: re_replace
args: ["(?i)^None$", ""]
- name: replace
args: [" & ", "_&_"]
description:
text: "{{ .Result.genre }}"
files:
selector: num_file
seeders:
selector: seeders
leechers:
selector: leechers
grabs:
selector: times_completed
date:
# "created_at": "2021-10-18T00:34:50.000000Z" is returned by Newtonsoft.Json.Linq as 18/10/2021 00:34:50
selector: created_at
filters:
- name: append
args: " +00:00" # GMT
- name: dateparse
args: "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss zzz"
size:
selector: size
downloadvolumefactor:
# api returns 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%
selector: freeleech
case:
0%: 1 # not free
25%: 0.75
50%: 0.5
75%: 0.25
100%: 0 # freeleech
"*": 0 # catch errors
uploadvolumefactor:
# api returns 0=false, 1=true
selector: double_upload
case:
0: 1 # normal
1: 2 # double
# global MR is 0.6 but torrents must be seeded for 2 days regardless of ratio
# minimumratio:
# text: 0.6
minimumseedtime:
# 2 days (as seconds = 2 x 24 x 60 x 60)
text: 172800
# json UNIT3D custom edition 1.0.1 (based on 6.5.0)