CGSearch
A search engine with a bunch of QOL features for games from popular piracy sources.
For a list of supported sites, please visit the search/engines/ folder. Sites that require javascript for their search to function, or ones that are protected by Cloudflare are currently not supported, as we only parse the static html data, although this may be subject to change in the future.
You can read more about the tool on github.
Current Features:
- Scrapes several trusted websites for games, trusted by FMHY, the r/Piracy megathread, or cs.rin.ru.
- A clean UI written in .NET / Avalonia
- Warnings for slow and other bad filehosts
- The ability to sort by uploader, filehost, download link type (torrent or direct)
- A score assigned to each result, based on relevance to the query and if the filehost is bad
- More to come, suggestions are welcome
- Open source on github
You can download CGSearch directly from github:
Windows Installer (Latest Version)Windows Portable .zip (Latest Version)
Or find an older release in this list.
Technical details for anyone interested:
- The UI is made in .NET with Avalonia
- The search backend uses python
- The UI and backend communicate via simple I/O stream redirection
- The search backend uses bs4 to parse websites
- It uses python's embeddable distribution, no need to install python
- The embeddable distribution is downloaded after building using powershell
- The post-build powershell program also creates an installer using NSIS