Goosle 1.2.2 includes a whole slew of smaller improvements to the code, new settings and a lot of small tweaks to make using it more useful and customizable. For magnet searches you can now enable highlights from a few websites to show the latest releases.
And overall a lot of the code got improved making things a bit faster or more efficient.
During testing for this release my ‘real’ Goosle setup got blocked from Ecosia. This probably happened because of the crawler and they use some kind of bot detector. I’m not sure how to work around it or how long that ban lasts. So if it happens to you disable Ecosia for a few days and see if that helps. L33tx has a similar issue, but they switched to Cloudflare. It doesn’t work for me anymore. But it might for you.
Changes in version 1.2.2 released on February 16, 2024
- [new] Individual on/off setting for each search engine and torrent site
- [new] YTS Highlights for latest releases, highest rated or most downloaded movies
- [new] EZTV Highlights for latest TV Show episode releases
- [new] Goosle-cron.php file for if you want to clear the file cache in the background
- [change] l33tx torrents disabled by default – They use Cloudflare now, preventing the crawler from working reliably
- [change] Ecosia search disabled by default – They use some kind of bot detector now, preventing the crawler from working once caught
- [change] Now uses an ABSPATH global for file inclusions and paths
- [change] More discrete TV Show and Movie result detection in text search
- [tweak] Filter for eztv search, only include eztv if the search term starts with ‘tt’ (case insensitive)
- [tweak] Better ecosia link formatting to (hopefully) not get blocked by their bot detector
- [tweak] cURL headers to be (even) more browser-like
- [fix] Variable $url sometimes empty for certain torrent results
- [fix] Blocked category filter for YTS results now actually works
Try Goosle for yourself
I’ve made the source code available on Github. https://github.com/adegans/Goosle
Goosle should work on most modern servers that have PHP7.4 or newer and should take less than 10 minutes to install and set up. All you need is basic webhosting and a domain name. Check the included readme.md or the Github page for details.
Getting help
You can post your questions on Github or on my support forum.
