How do warez sites automaticall add contents on their sites?

[Jimm22]

Hi,
I recently made a streaming movie site.
After analyzing the competition though, I'm noticing how there is something that smell as automate process in adding movies to the database.

For example, if a site publish a new movie, a movie that is just released, then in like 10 minutes every other competitor add the same movie on their sites. I mean it's impossible all the owner are online at the same time, sometimes even at 4 AM, just to do that.

Recently I came across another weird case. Basically there is a movie site who is under DDoS by another movie site. Since when I noticed, I run a monitor on that site and I found the website is offline for more than 24+ hours now because of the DDoS (you can see from the screenshot attached some uptimes, but that is just the homepage cache that sometimes is online, all the rest of the website was offline for 24+ hours straight)

yet, despite the owner clearly didn't went online for 24+ hours straight to fix this, I can see in their telegram channel that new movies are currently published and released even though the website is down.

Do you guys have any idea how they do that?

 

[cooqra]

I think it does this with registration in the database.

 

[ANewBeginning]

Hi,
I recently made a streaming movie site.
After analyzing the competition though, I'm noticing how there is something that smell as automate process in adding movies to the database.

For example, if a site publish a new movie, a movie that is just released, then in like 10 minutes every other competitor add the same movie on their sites. I mean it's impossible all the owner are online at the same time, sometimes even at 4 AM, just to do that.

Recently I came across another weird case. Basically there is a movie site who is under DDoS by another movie site. Since when I noticed, I run a monitor on that site and I found the website is offline for more than 24+ hours now because of the DDoS (you can see from the screenshot attached some uptimes, but that is just the homepage cache that sometimes is online, all the rest of the website was offline for 24+ hours straight)

yet, despite the owner clearly didn't went online for 24+ hours straight to fix this, I can see in their telegram channel that new movies are currently published and released even though the website is down.

Do you guys have any idea how they do that?

That's 100% automation, everything is created programmatically. I'm sure the owner of that site has a ton more and could care less about one site at all. If one site goes down, there are a lot more that will take it's place. So, yeah, nothing to worry about.

 

[Jimm22]

That's 100% automation, everything is created programmatically. I'm sure the owner of that site has a ton more and could care less about one site at all. If one site goes down, there are a lot more that will take it's place. So, yeah, nothing to worry about.

Yes I'm not worry, I would just like to know which plugin they use to do this

 

[justimimim]

I thnik they using software to pull content and then software to spin the pulled content and auto-publish.

 

[Deleted member 1232083]

Yes I'm not worry, I would just like to know which plugin they use to do this

It's a custom plugin

 

[Starblazer]

They use custom scripts to scrape data from databases like IMDB and TMDB, and then publish it to the site. They setup cron jobs to do it once in a few hours. Some of these sites work in a network which copy-paste same thing over several sites. Most admins won't even check the site daily.

 

[Jimm22]

They use custom scripts to scrape data from databases like IMDB and TMDB, and then publish it to the site. They setup cron jobs to do it once in a few hours. Some of these sites work in a network which copy-paste same thing over several sites. Most admins won't even check the site daily.

And how they handle the movie file? Like, since these sites use own server, this plugin has to:
1. Scrape and publish the data from IMDB
2. Find the correct movie content from another source (torrent?), download it, encode it to mp4, upload it to the server and publish it along with the post
I mean, it doesn't sound easy to do with automation...

 

[Starblazer]

And how they handle the movie file? Like, since these sites use own server, this plugin has to:
1. Scrape and publish the data from IMDB
2. Find the correct movie content from another source (torrent?), download it, encode it to mp4, upload it to the server and publish it along with the post
I mean, it doesn't sound easy to do with automation...

Some scripts download and save movie files, some just share torrent to external files, some others just point users to an external storage. If you want to store files in your server, then you have to manually download and store these files. Automation just simplifies this process. Many people have mentioned it in their journey threads.

 

[pocketttt]

seems custom script

 

[Bots-Scrapers]

Something running locally like a watcher in the backend actually does this work. They have source to look for 24x7 every x , y minutes.