10 JUL 2026 - Back up to full speed!
Let's be honest: for the last few months, TorrentFunk was painfully slow. Pages crawled, searches dragged, and just loading the site tested everyone's patience.
We hunted the problem down to our network and rebuilt it from the ground up — smarter caching, a much bigger and faster connection, and a lot of fine-tuning under the hood.
The difference is night and day: the site now loads in a fraction of a second. No more waiting around.
Thanks for sticking with us through the slow spell. Now go discover your funk!

TorrentFunk APIs

Connect to TorrentFunk programmatically — a free JSON API for your own website, app or script, and classic RSS feeds for your torrent client or feed reader. No API key, no registration.

JSON API

All endpoints are GET, return application/json (UTF-8), and allow cross-origin requests (Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *) — call them straight from a browser. Base URL: https://www.torrentfunk.com

Search torrents

GET /api/search.json

Parameter	Required	Description
`q`	yes	Search terms, max 100 characters. Quotes, parentheses and `@` are stripped.
`category`	no	Filter by category — numeric id or name, see the table below. Example: `category=movies` or `category=1`.
`verified`	no	`1` = only verified torrents.
`sort`	no	`seeds` (default), `peers`, `size` or `added`.
`order`	no	`desc` (default) or `asc`.
`limit`	no	Results per page, 1–100. Default 20.
`page`	no	Page number, starting at 1. `page × limit` may not exceed 1000.

curl "https://www.torrentfunk.com/api/search.json?q=ubuntu&category=software&limit=5"

Latest torrents

GET /api/latest.json

The newest torrents on the site, newest first. Takes the same category, verified, limit and page parameters as search (no q, no sort).

curl "https://www.torrentfunk.com/api/latest.json?category=movies&verified=1&limit=10"

Response format

{
  "status": "ok",
  "endpoint": "search",
  "page": 1,
  "limit": 20,
  "count": 20,
  "total_found": 2260,
  "query": "ubuntu",
  "results": [
    {
      "id": 50098416,
      "name": "Ubuntu Linux Bible 11E",
      "infohash": "45bb7b3ac77116ef4e7ec743e2a8319caddf87b1",
      "magnet": "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:45bb7b3ac7...&dn=Ubuntu%20Linux%20Bible%2011E",
      "torrent_file": "https://ft.t0r.space/tor/50098416.torrent",
      "url": "https://www.torrentfunk.com/torrent/50098416/ubuntu-linux-bible-11e.html",
      "category": "eBooks",
      "category_id": 8,
      "size_bytes": 8488590,
      "size": "8.1 MB",
      "seeds": 5,
      "peers": 1,
      "verified": false,
      "added": 1766370340,
      "added_iso": "2025-12-22T02:25:40+00:00"
    }
  ]
}

Field	Meaning
`total_found`	Total matches in the index. Only the first 1000 are reachable through paging.
`infohash`	BitTorrent v1 info-hash (40-char hex, lowercase).
`magnet`	Ready-to-use magnet link. Add your own `&tr=` trackers if you want faster peer discovery.
`torrent_file`	Direct `.torrent` file download.
`url`	The torrent's detail page on TorrentFunk.
`size_bytes` / `size`	Size as raw bytes and as a human-readable string.
`added` / `added_iso`	When it was indexed: unix timestamp and ISO-8601 (UTC).

Errors

Errors come back as JSON with a matching HTTP status code:

{ "status": "error", "error": "limit must be 1-100" }

Status	When
`400`	Missing or invalid parameter — the `error` field says which.
`404`	Unknown endpoint.
`503`	Search backend briefly unavailable (happens for a moment every few hours) — retry after a minute.

Examples

JavaScript (browser or Node):

const res = await fetch("https://www.torrentfunk.com/api/search.json?q=debian&limit=5");
const data = await res.json();
for (const t of data.results) {
    console.log(t.name, t.size, t.magnet);
}

PHP:

$data = json_decode(file_get_contents(
    "https://www.torrentfunk.com/api/latest.json?category=television&limit=10"
), true);
foreach ($data["results"] as $t) {
    echo $t["name"] . " - " . $t["seeds"] . " seeds\n";
}

Python:

import requests
data = requests.get("https://www.torrentfunk.com/api/search.json",
                    params={"q": "ubuntu", "verified": 1}).json()
for t in data["results"]:
    print(t["name"], t["magnet"])

RSS Feeds

Every feed is standard RSS 2.0 with a <enclosure> .torrent link per item — drop one into your torrent client's RSS downloader or any feed reader.

All torrents/rss.xml Verified only/verified/rss.xml Movies/movies/rss.xml Television/television/rss.xml Games/games/rss.xml Music/music/rss.xml Software/software/rss.xml Anime/anime/rss.xml

RSS search feeds

Turn any search into a feed — put your query (words separated by dashes) in the URL, optionally scoped to a category. Results are ordered by seeds, 50 items per feed.

GET /rss/<query>.xml

GET /rss/<category>/<query>.xml

https://www.torrentfunk.com/rss/big-buck-bunny.xml
https://www.torrentfunk.com/rss/television/one-piece.xml

Valid categories for search feeds: movies, music, television, games, software, anime, adult.

Fair use & caching

Responses carry Cache-Control headers — latest is fresh for 5 minutes, search and the RSS feeds for 15 — so please cache on your side and don't re-request the same URL more often than that. The APIs are free for any site or app, but abusive scraping (thousands of requests per minute) may get blocked. Questions or need more? Contact us.