Hardseed is a command-line forum media scraper and content archiver. It extracts images and torrent seeds from internet forums in bulk, saving the media and associated metadata to local directories.
The tool utilizes a proxy-enabled web scraping engine that rotates network traffic through multiple proxy servers and protocols to bypass rate limits and network restrictions. It includes a keyword-based media filter that matches user-defined strings within entry titles to include or exclude specific topics.
The system manages data extraction through batch-processed thread iteration and range-limited topic processing. Downloaded assets are organized into a folder hierarchy using template-based directory mapping derived from category and timestamp metadata. All operations are managed via a terminal-based command interface.