Downloading/torrenting kids cartoons

Hey all. noob-ish pirate here. Skipping long winded post. I'm struggling to find sources to download/torrent kids cartoons. Some are easy, but I'm looking for paw patrol and it's scarce on 1337. The more modern stuff and the super popular stuff are a little easier though. Not really any information on the Wiki about this stuff.

I see plenty of streaming resources. I guess if it comes down to it I can record it? I don't know the best way to do that, certainly doesn't seem ideal..

I'll update my post to reflect my levels of success :)

danielquinn ,
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Snowfl has some pretty good results (note the addition of the keyword complete). But you can do a lot better than Paw Patrol! "Bluey", "The Owl House", "Hilda", and "Kipo and the age of the Wonderbeasts" are all far better choices for kids and your own sanity ;-)

Robin_net ,

Parents know those other shows are better, but I am more likely to be asked to put on Paw Patrol than Bluey and my toddler doesn't ever ask for Hilda. Kids have their own tastes, and it is impossible to shield them from everything you don't want them to watch. Thankfully, everyone I know agrees Cocomelon is harmful garbage and off limits, so I've been able to avoid that completely.

Trainguyrom ,

I haven't been so lucky. Grandma gave our first child both a phone and a tablet before she was 2 (against our wishes) and lets her have full unsupervised access to whatever she wants to watch. My wife now is a stay at home mom to keep Grandma's influence limited (she also plays fast and loose with regards to safety)

But back on topic, we usually ask the kids what they want to watch, and if we feel they've been watching too much trash television we'll say "let's watch something on PBS Kids" and let them pick something on PBS to watch (because that's our go to for higher quality kids content) so about 70% of their screen time is on high quality content and the other 30% is their choice.

zeluko ,

Media is better indexed on Rarbg (which doesnt exist anymore, but the biggest copy is TheRarbg which works similarly)

Fleppensteijn ,
@Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl avatar

On streaming sites (Fmoviesz), some mirrors have a download button. You can also use the Video Downloadhelper plugin for Firefox.

borari ,
@borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I don’t torrent, just usenet. I added Paw Patrol into sonarr and have an ungodly amount of episodes of that show. The only kids show i’ve ran in to issues getting personally was some newish winnie the pooh show, but a new season dropped recently and the backlog filled in basically overnight.

Edit - I’m missing one episode in season 5, fourteen in season 9, and twenty five from season 10. Not really sure why i’m missing so many from the more recent seasons, but with 101.9GiBs of Paw Patrol none of the parents I share my media with care when they can hit shuffle, and their four year olds definitely don’t give a fuck about which episode just dropped. Although I’m probably going to hyperfixate on this now and not sleep until i’ve grabbed everything that’s missing so thanks for that lol.

inconspicuouscolon OP ,
@inconspicuouscolon@lemy.lol avatar

LMAO It's better left alone but you can't help but need to make sure it's complete. I'm the same about my music, if anything is improperly tagged or named inconsistent I fix it- it's compulsory I swear.

player2 ,

Have you tried using the search engine built into qBittorent? For example, here is what it looks like when searching for Paw Patrol S01:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/181a1220-8cb9-4815-bf13-0b45478904cb.png

How to install search engines in qB:
https://www.makeuseof.com/qbittorrent-add-search-engines/

inconspicuouscolon OP ,
@inconspicuouscolon@lemy.lol avatar

OOOOO I don't know why I haven't tried this before! Guess I thought 1137 was an adequate search engine? This is seriously awesome, thanks for showing me.

player2 ,

No problem! When I was picking out which search engines or "plugins" to install, I visited most of the sites on the list and chose the ones I had heard of plus some other ones that looked like they were for English content. Some of the sites were clearly for other languages or for niches like anime, so just pick out whichever ones are relevant to your interests and then you'll be able to search all of their databases instantly without dealing with their terrible websites and just get the magnet link.

OsaErisXero ,

I have used this software for... A decade? And never knew it had a search feature

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