Batu69 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 Are you wondering when the latest blockbuster movies will leak online? Then Squawkr might be something for you. The new service allows people to maintain a watchlist of films and sends alerts when a high-quality scene release appears online. Unlike official distribution channels, pirate sites don’t have fixed calendar showing when a certain film will leak online. Instead, pirates and pirate watchers can be found regularly browsing their favorite websites, to see if something of interest appears. A cumbersome task, although it does have its charms. With Squawkr, however, movie fans now have the option to outsource this manual search labor. Instead, they just make a list of their most anticipated titles. Squawkr will then send an alert once a scene release becomes available. TorrentFreak reached out to Jakob, the developer of the site, who says that the simplicity of the platform is one of its main selling points. “I wanted to make Squawkr simple and easy to use, while being a powerful tool. It’s very intuitive. Just log in, start adding movies and get notified. That’s it,” Jacob says. The idea for Squawkr started about a year ago, when Jacob used to spend many hours searching for high-quality leaks, often without luck. “Torrent sites are flooded with Cam rips and WEB-DLs, which is fine for people who like to watch those. But for someone who enjoys true HD movies, it can be a bit of a pain to go through all the crap, just to find the needle in the haystack.” Since he couldn’t develop in PHP, Ajax and jQuery, the first six months were put into mastering the basic coding skills. Jakob then spent another half year improving the functionality and design. The result is what people see today, and it’s indeed quite intuitive. After logging in users can start adding movie titles, which is pretty much all there is to it. Adding a movie to the watchlist The site is focused on high-quality releases, mostly BluRay and DVD rips, and allows users to distinguish between 720p and 1080p quality. Other formats, such as WEB-DLs, could follow in the future if there is a high demand, but these will always be separate from the core experience. After a movie is added to the watchlist Squawkr regularly polls the PreDB database of scene releases. When a movie is available in the desired format, the service sends a notification via email. An email alert! What started as a relatively small coding challenge has now turned into something more serious. After receiving positive feedback and requests from early users in the Piracy and HTPC subreddits, Jakob started to add more features. PushBullet and Pushover notifications were introduced, for example, as well as a notifications archive where people can keep track of the alerts. Another advantage is that the site is free to use, and that’s not going to change anytime soon. That said, donations are always welcome. As for the legal side, Jakob is aware of the risks. He consulted a lawyer before going live with the service, who advised him to be cautious. However, since there are no links to any pirated files on the site, no real problems are expected in his home country of Denmark. Jakob prefers to focus on the positive instead. He hopes that a lot of people will appreciate his work. In a way, he is doling out gifts on a daily basis, which is a good fit for the festive season. “When you receive Squawkr notifications about your most anticipated movies from your watchlist, it’s like receiving a little present in your inbox. It’s fun,” he concludes. TorrentFreak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 2 hours ago, Batu69 said: As for the legal side, Jakob is aware of the risks. He consulted a lawyer before going live with the service, who advised him to be cautious. However, since there are no links to any pirated files on the site, no real problems are expected in his home country of Denmark. That may not be true of users in the US and the UK where law enforcement could be using data to identify people looking for movies and then using that data to further identify them and track their actions on the internet. Your watchlist and inbox are all tied to your computer, and since Jakob was a new coder who knows what holes/flaws exist in the program that could be used to identify users. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure (an old saying my grandparents used) so you have to balance your desires to get access to a movie a couple days earlier than by looking on normal release sites against the chance you could be tracked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mona Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 https://www.squawkr.io/ Reddit thread : https://www.reddit.com/r/htpc/comments/565pyz/squawkrio_notifies_you_when_a_movie_is_available/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 I have another site i use to figure out whats out that report leaks in a comment section and they stay very up to date , I dont agree with @straycat19 very often but what he say is true i would never give no site any info to find out leaks that's what comments , trackers , etc. are for so we can track releases according that reddit topic hes using a known scene tracker and sending you the info that it's out trough you're email ..Why do i need this when i could just use RSS or just look at the tracker when i'm looking for something? Most likely they will block him for leeching there bandwidth . He is only tracking scene blu-ray releases from another sites data base that sometimes misses some releases . You need more than one scene tracker site so you dont miss nothing. and you can go too any good p2p site or blog , forum and put in search what you want and do the same and also download it plus you will have P2P releases too to chose from . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batu69 Posted November 27, 2016 Author Share Posted November 27, 2016 6 hours ago, mona said: https://www.squawkr.io/ Reddit thread : https://www.reddit.com/r/htpc/comments/565pyz/squawkrio_notifies_you_when_a_movie_is_available/ Changelog: Squawkr.Io Now Supports Pushover Notifications And Has Been Greatly Improved Overall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Interesting the dev dont use p2p he only uses usenet still using just PreDB misses some scene releases .. usenet is used mostly by people who dont mind paying a fee to download. I wonder does the dev have permission to use PreDB api are is he just leeching off of it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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