TorrentSpider webapp, search torrent across multiple providers

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TorrentSpider is a web application that can search torrent across multiple providers.
Built with React.js ( create-react-app ). The website is live here http://torrentspider.ga

Available providers are

ThePirateBay
KickassTorrents
TorrentProject
Rarbg
Torrent9
Torrentz2
1337x
ExtraTorrent

Developing

API

This project use API that I made using Glitch. You can see the API source code here:
https://glitch.com/~torrent-search
the API itself use express.js and npm packeage torrent-search-api. I just use the public providers.

const TorrentSearchApi = require('torrent-search-api');
const torrentSearch = new TorrentSearchApi(); 
torrentSearch.enablePublicProviders();

and then in express routing

app.get("/search", function (req, res) {
  var query = req.query.q || ''
  var limit = req.query.limit || 20
  var category = req.query.category || ''
  
  torrentSearch.search(query)
    .then(torrents => {
      res.json(torrents)
    })
  });

Front-end

The website is a single-page application built with React. I'm using create-react-app for bootstrapping my project. I just make it as simple as possible for making users easy to search. So I just made few components.

And i'm using react-coin-hive for monetizing my website.

Deploying

I use Netlify for deploying this web-app. Buying free domain at freenom.
And here we go.
http://torrentspider.ga

How to contribute?

You can fork the project, and install it locally. Then use this styleguide for contributing. https://github.com/airbnb/javascript/tree/master/react

Future

The only issues here is server performance. It took several seconds for me to completing search request. Since the api is served from glitch which is free server.