Guide: How to search language specific torrents

[Francesco980]

When I do a search for a movie or TV series when the search finishes I never find the movie or TV series in my language which would be Italian, how can I solve this problem to easily find movies and TV series in my language?

[antonsoroko]

@Francesco980
It really depends oh how your people distribute torrents and how they name torrents.

I can tell you several ways:

1. Try to use only Italian torrent trackers. in burst settings disable all tracker except Italian. This will work if Italian trackers host videos with italian language. (usually country specific trackers host videos with country specific language).
   (You might need to fix/add italian trackers if currently added trackers do not work. This is usually done by users, but you can also ask for help by creating a new issue here. But better to fix/add trackers by yourself and make a "pull request" here. Basic knowledge of HTML is needed. All details are in README.md)

2. Set kodi language to Italian and enable in advanced settings this
   

   script.elementum.burst/resources/language/Italian/strings.po

   Lines 54 to 55 in 61c513a

   	msgid "Use language preference from Kodi when a translation is available"
   	msgstr "Usa la preferenza di Kodi della lingua quando è disponibile una traduzione"

3. In burst advanced settings add "must have" keyword that would mean your language in torrent name, e.g. "ITA" (like if torrent name is Movies.2024.ITA.WEB-DL.mkv so with this ITA you will "allow" only torrents that have ITA in name). Open advanced setting and find:
   

   script.elementum.burst/resources/language/Italian/strings.po

   Lines 70 to 71 in 61c513a

   	msgid "Additional keyword filters (comma-separated)"
   	msgstr "Filtri parole chiave aggiuntivi (separati da virgola)"

   
   This will force burst to use italian translation of video title for torrent search (with exception when tracker explicitly defines supported languages).

[antonsoroko]

@elgatito can we please open this issue (and keep it open) and rename it to "Guide: How to search language specific torrents" so other people can find this info. thanks!

[Francesco980]

@antonsoroko In advanced settings of Elementum burst in additional keyword filters I don't understand what should I write to search torrent in my language should I write so ita. _ eng. _ or ita, _ eng, _ I don't understand how I should write it, and I can't find TV series in Korean or Japanese even if the title of the TV series is written in Italian or English.

[antonsoroko]

@Francesco980

TLDR: If you are inexperienced torrent user - please enable only italian trackers/providers and enable "translation of video title" for search. Do what I wrote in 1 and 2.

Long answer:
Note that "advanced settings" are only for advanced users. If you do not know how italian pirates name their torrents - then this option is not for you. If you want to became advanced user - please do research and learn how italian torrents are usually named (e.g. what words they add to names). Then you will know what words to use.

But again - this is advanced setting, thus you must understand what you do.
"Accept" will accept torrent with any of specified words. So specifying ita, eng means that torrent name must have either ita or eng in name.

"Block" will decline torrent with any of specified words. So specifying ita, eng means that torrent name must not have ita or eng in name.

"Require" will accept only torrents that have all words that you specified. So specifying ita, eng means that torrent name must have both words, e.g. my.torrent.2020.ita.eng.mkv, obviously torrent name like my.torrent.ita.mkv will not be accepted.

So if you want to have torrents with ita or eng - then use "Accept". If with both ita and eng - then use "Require".
If you want to block some languages - then use "Block".

I don't understand how I should write it

it has description about format and it is even translated to itialian :-) I checked via translator - translation looks correct.
Use comma (comma is , not .) as separator. You can use _TEST_ if you want to check if torrent's name has word " TEST " (with spaces around word), otherwise just write "TEST" - but note that this can match words like "TESTERS" or "PROTEST". Unfortunately, despite the fact it also says about dots - it will not match dots, only spaces. Looks like a bug. So just use "TEST" (without 2 _). Obviously word "TEST" is example.

In next version of burst it will be more simple and it will have example, see #395 . But again - this is only for advanced users.

I can't find TV series in Korean or Japanese even if the title of the TV series is written in Italian or English.

I guess you use wrong torrent trackers (aka providers). Use torrent trackers that have videos that you want in the language you want.

[Francesco980]

@antonsoroko But why when I do a search for a movie or TV 0series in the search results I no longer see 1337x? Is there any way when I do a search in the results there is this site?

[antonsoroko]

@Francesco980 see #240 (comment)
they started to use aggressive anti-bot protection and burst is a bot. so 1337x sometimes works for some people (it works for me), but usually it does not work. If it does not work for you - just disable it.
To test if it really does not work for you (not because you misconfigured your kodi/elementum/burst): just use "search" on main page of elementum and search for some popular video in english, of course you need to remove all "Additional keyword filters" in burst, if you already set them, so they will not affect test results.)

Anyway, 1337x is not italian tracker but, so it has all languages.

I strongly recommend you to use italian trackers to avoid all this fuss - this is the easiest and most robust solution for inexperienced users. as i can see we have ilcorsoronero (but you need to enable "allow results with 0 seeds" in settings for that tracker) and ilcorsoroblu. If you know basic HTML - you can add more.

But if for some strange reason you want to use international trackers to find only italian torrents - then set enable "Additional keyword filters (comma-separated)" and set "Require" to "ITA" or similar word that italian torrents have in their name (without quotes obviously). See my explanation about Accept/Block/Require above.
Also it is better to disable "Use language preference from Kodi when a translation is available" for international trackers, since they use english usually.

Alternatives to 1337x: magnetdl, bitsearch, Torrentz2K, thepiratebay (they recently changed their ui layout, will be fixed in #394), torrentgalaxy (although recenty they also started to block bots), and many other tracker - see settings.

Also, if you want to search video titles translated to italian (e.g. you found tracker that uses names translated to italian) - you need to set your kodi language to italian, otherwise burst will not know what language to use for search (if you enabled "Use language preference from Kodi when a translation is available" option as i told you before). But again, it makes sense only if you use italian trackers/providers or trackers that have torrents with italian titles.