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There are several torrent search engines and every torrent tracker provides a search engine, but it would be better to have a desktop app that can search for the torrents. Some of the torrent download clients allow this but they still redirect you to web based search engines. TorrentFetcher is a desktop app that allows you to search torrents from your desktop.

After installing the software you can search for torrents with keywords, to filter out the results select the category you want to search, like software, games and so on. You can also select how many results you want to see. You can specify the download location for the torrents in the application. Double clicking a torrent link will download .torrent file. Please note that it won’t download the files associated with the torrents, but only .torrent files, that means you need a program like uTorrent to download the actual files.

The torrent search listing is fairly useful, it will show, rating, size, date, no of seeds and peers associated with the torrents, but you can’t sort based on these criteria, sorting would have been better.

Features:

• Search through multiple pages of torrents at once.
• Automatically move downloaded torrents to a specified output directory (good for bittorrent clients that monitor a specific folder, like uTorrent).
• Automatically launch downloaded torrents.
• Know which torrent files you already have in your downloaded folder through automatic highlighting.
• Results highlighting lets you know if a torrent is well or poorly seeded or if it has negative comments left about it.
• Automatic detection and removal of "denis stalker" trackers using the MonoTorrent library.
• Minimize-to-tray option to keep the utility handy at all times.

TorrentFetcher is a freeware for Windows and is a tiny application, just 420kb in size.