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I thought it was a desktop app that used 3rd party torrent movie search APIs (YIFI, OpenSubtitles, etc.) to stream torrents. How does a desktop app "shut down"

I thought it was a desktop app that used 3rd party torrent movie search APIs (YIFI, OpenSubtitles, etc.) to stream torrents. How does a desktop app "shut down"? I must be misunderstanding part of the architecture. Did they have a centralized server? What did they use it for? I know they took the down the download link. People are reporting the app no longer works.

hadrien01 13y ago
They used the http://subapi.com/ http://subapi.com/ website as a gateway between their app and http://yts.re/api http://yts.re/api. You can browse precedent commits to check the previous code, which is what I'm doing now.
- fenghorn 13y ago
  Popcorn Time 0.1.0 depends on subapi.com to continue functioning. Based on the source the API returns JSON file with the following structure: { movies: { [ torrents: [ {'quality': '1080p', url: 'http://url.torrent' http://url.torrent'}, {'quality': '720p', url: 'http://url.torrent' http://url.torrent'}, {'quality': 'undefined', url: 'http://url.torrent' http://url.torrent'} ], subtitles: [ {'language': 'en', url: 'http://url.srt' http://url.srt'}, {'language': 'undefined', url: 'http://url.srt' http://url.srt'} ], imdb_id:, title:, year:, runtime:, synopsis:, voteAverage:, poster:, backdrop:, seeders:, leechers: ] } }