Hey all. noob-ish pirate here. Skipping long winded post. I'm struggling to find sources to download/torrent kids cartoons. Some are easy, but I'm looking for paw patrol and it's scarce on 1337. The more modern stuff and the super popular stuff are a little easier though. Not really any information on the Wiki about this stuff.
I see plenty of streaming resources. I guess if it comes down to it I can record it? I don't know the best way to do that, certainly doesn't seem ideal..
I'll update my post to reflect my levels of success :)
Have you tried using the search engine built into qBittorent? For example, here is what it looks like when searching for Paw Patrol S01:
Show
How to install search engines in qB:
https://www.makeuseof.com/qbittorrent-add-search-engines/OOOOO I don't know why I haven't tried this before! Guess I thought 1137 was an adequate search engine? This is seriously awesome, thanks for showing me.
No problem! When I was picking out which search engines or "plugins" to install, I visited most of the sites on the list and chose the ones I had heard of plus some other ones that looked like they were for English content. Some of the sites were clearly for other languages or for niches like anime, so just pick out whichever ones are relevant to your interests and then you'll be able to search all of their databases instantly without dealing with their terrible websites and just get the magnet link.
I don’t torrent, just usenet. I added Paw Patrol into sonarr and have an ungodly amount of episodes of that show. The only kids show i’ve ran in to issues getting personally was some newish winnie the pooh show, but a new season dropped recently and the backlog filled in basically overnight.
Edit - I’m missing one episode in season 5, fourteen in season 9, and twenty five from season 10. Not really sure why i’m missing so many from the more recent seasons, but with 101.9GiBs of Paw Patrol none of the parents I share my media with care when they can hit shuffle, and their four year olds definitely don’t give a fuck about which episode just dropped. Although I’m probably going to hyperfixate on this now and not sleep until i’ve grabbed everything that’s missing so thanks for that lol.
LMAO It's better left alone but you can't help but need to make sure it's complete. I'm the same about my music, if anything is improperly tagged or named inconsistent I fix it- it's compulsory I swear.
I think the ones you are missing are just not pirated somehow, no idea why. I have those same episodes missing and I don't even get them in English. At least the ones from Season 09 I remember, not sure I got similar missing ones in Season 10. Always thought its because they are not out yet in our language but sounds like they are just not available.
For kids stuff I found stremio and torrentio to be easy if a bit convoluted to set up.
Hey hey, great suggestion. I do actually have stremio + torrentio + real debrid set up, works really well! Thing is, I've been getting some errors with Real Debrid on Paramount+ kids shows. Seems like they're cracking down on those torrents or something? Anyway those I've just been downloading manually instead, but it's made me want to download more stuff just in case the streaming setup becomes less consistent :p
It's more likely that the streaming setup is having the same problem as you - it can't find a stream. It checks a load of torrents at once, but if there's no torrent for what you're looking for, it's not going to find them either.
Well the torrents are there, I just can't access them, gives me some weird screen. And if I manually convert the torrent to a download link through real debrid, it says it's not allowed to do that or something. But torrenting it myself works fine.
Tubi has a few gems: Sarah & Duck, Mofy, and Hooray for Huckle. These can be downloaded for offline use (ad-free) using the command line software called yt-dlp. This software has the ability to load your cookies from your web browser, so it may work for some login sites, for example if you just pay for one month.
You can find some stuff searching btdig.com.
On streaming sites (Fmoviesz), some mirrors have a download button. You can also use the Video Downloadhelper plugin for Firefox.
I have been intercepting the .m3u download requests in the pages like a corsair in order to download the videos with ffmpeg. And let me tell you that it's a PITA with how many anti-debug features these streaming sites include.
I'll try this addon and see if it can end my misery.
If you can find it "Busytown" is a great kids show set on the world of Richard Scarry
I like using Jackett as a search engine across a ton of sites. I can usually always find what I’m looking for.
Try searching "kiss cartoon". It usually works for me and has lots of content. They seem to have Paw Patrol but I would recommend something better.
https://www1.kisscartoon.online/?s=paw+patrol
