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Turn google into your own free napster

blog.awswebshop.com — type this {-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "DIGG"} in the search bar and replace DIGG with your favorite band, and you will only find open indexes that contain downloadable music files. This really works.

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  • durrty, on 10/12/2007, -59/+20Not perfect, but still useful and use-able. Best part is simply being able to find index folders you can browse.
  • ALLCAPS, on 10/12/2007, -18/+7It does work quite well, but often when I try it, Google refuses and said: "your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application."

    • kingyubba, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10@ALLCAPS

      do you have Tor installed? or surfing through a proxy? that's probably why.
    • samnetwork, on 10/12/2007, -4/+52Well google doesn't like you.
    • jsp123, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Yeah, I was doing some tests and it seems that google limits queries with the inurl to around 300 results.
    • freddo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7more tricks like that one may be found on http://www.searchlores.org/
    • 3apo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0well how is this news? I have been using google for finding dexes for the past 4 years, it used to be a closely guarded secret those days (if you ever hovered around the "Highway to hell" forums at Network24 you would have known.
    • ALLCAPS, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@kingyubba - I don't, but the ISP runs a transparent proxy maybe?
  • MrPresident13, on 10/12/2007, -39/+2i would guess that using a band with with more than 1 word would complicate things.
    • KissTheRing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33The quotes around the band name should make sure that isn't a problem
    • amphoterous, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Actually he's right. Since people name their MP3's differently, it could be formatted in a different way.
      Ex: "Band Name - Song Title" or "Band_Name_-_Song_Title"... etc. It could be hard to find something you wanted.
    • Daveoh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4However Google isn't one of those crappy search engines which can only find exact results.
      Band name & Band-name or whatever in between should not make a difference.
  • drpeppper, on 10/28/2007, -8/+97http://www.b3ta.cr3ation.co.uk/site/music-plus/

    i win.
    • westoncampbell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Yes, you do win. Thanks!
    • cr3ative, on 11/07/2007, -2/+148As the creator of that site, I should put a word in edgeways, I suppose..
      It's served over 45 million valid MP3's, and gets the results from various data providers like Dogpile, ATW and Google.

      It's designed to NEVER give out dead links.

      Try it. You'll like it!
    • DomZy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Now that's a cool site! bookmarked
    • 40bslove, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4the songbird team just lost there search engine a while ago, this and songbird would be a lot of fun. you should see about working with them.
    • foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13@cr3ative
      You have been dugg! How is your server?
      Has it caught on fire yet?
    • betterth, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3I must say. That link is awesome. Kudos.
    • plhearn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Great site cr3ative. I wonder, are you worried about getting shut down by the RIAA or some other company?
    • ophilye, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That is a great site cr3ative. It's perfect for finding those rare things... I've already found the music from The Pirate Move and The Creatures. Thank you thank you!

      No, it couldn't get shut down because it is housing nothing. It's finding it from everyone elses servers.. and if everyone else is holding only 1 or 2 mp3s, then it would be too difficult for the RIAA to sue, unlike when someone is housing like 500 & sharing...

    • cr3ative, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Wow, thanks for the nice replies, guys!

      There's a digg submission for the site here, if you like it:
      http://digg.com/software/cr3ation_b3ta_Music_Search_Plus_Free_MP3_Downloads

      The server's got a very heavy load, but wait it out, and you should get through. :)
    • affanjam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30I think we killed your server...
    • dezmo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3it's dead
    • euphemizeme, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Now all we need is one that checks the whois data to make sure it's not an RIAA fishing site.
    • lordsteve, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17::pokes the server with a stick:: . . . hello? . . . are you awake?
    • user777, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6confirmed, let's call it. 12:35 EST
    • laserman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Dear Digg Users,
      Thanks for providing this insightful Google hack tool and for voting this story to the front page. It sure got our attention! We will have a whole division of lawyers drafting new lawsuits in the morning to each host that has 50 or more MP3s shared. We would have never seen this otherwise. Thank you,

      Gerald
      RIAA Counsel
  • joestump, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8There's a great book called Google Hacks that includes stuff like this. It also shows much more powerful features in Google, like finding numeric ranges (think SSN/CC numbers). A highly recommended book ... I read the whole thing in a plane ride in utter fascination. After that I immediately went back and updated my robots.txt and switched indexes off in Apache.
    • dmitriyvoz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0The author has mentioned very much a vital topic today. It seems to me that the problematics of this clause enables to reflect and draw conclusions. You can as to look sites in Russian which mention this theme: http://www.rolid.org http://www.se-ua.com
  • RobbieCrash, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1Dupe of a previous story, and way ***** implementation of it. As the second post says, g2p does it without worrying about ***** up your query.
  • armynixon, on 11/07/2007, -5/+135At times like this, when no one is looking, I hug my computer. This whole Internet thing is pretty cool.
    • dennbruce, on 10/12/2007, -5/+34"At times like this, when no one is looking, I hug my computer. This whole Internet thing is pretty cool."

      Thank God, I thought I was the only one
    • robharper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I find that my CRT gives a very substantial hug.
    • Xanin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20that's why I haven't replaced by CRT with an LCD, I just won't get that snug feeling
  • sparsely, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2when it's up, http://opendirectories.net/ provides a simple interface for such searches
  • TheLD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Site's down. Try this posted over two years ago:
    http://www.i-hacked.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=23
  • joestump, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5One more thing: If you combined this with Google's API and wget you'd have one mean MP3 spider on your hands. Hrm.
  • mvandemar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+51Hey! What do you know! This works as well:

    {-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(avi|mpg) "porn"}
  • pussnuts, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Welcome to another edition of Infinite Solutions.
  • blackhorus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1there's an easy way to look for mp3...Just type in google...
    "band" rar rapidshare | megaupload
    try to fine tune this, and you'll be amazed with the results...
  • mikedonlin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If you like this, the google hacking database at http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ghdb.php has over a thousand cool google searches for various online devices and other cool stuff. It's suprising what you can find on google.
  • joefrank, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1these guys make it a little easier: http://www.sonicx.com
  • powerhandler, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Totally unreal. Another reason for more companies to sue Google, right...
  • stretch611, on 10/12/2007, -4/+52A true geek would use (ogg|mp3) instead of (wma|mp3)
  • anthonyretro, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Or you can just do an audio search in Dogpile and knock out all those damn details
  • CJM32, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4Old news
    buried
  • dani8559, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1This isn't news. Anyone who uses the internet for anything other than email should know how to do simple paramters in their google search like inurl: and filetype:
    I've been doing this for years to find fonts i want ( i.e. agency.ttf). If you use google you should know how to do this.

    Unfortunately for OP, sometimes people will make a folder called "html" or transfer the html file from an apache install that had /.../www/html to an install whose root is only /.../www, so you're eliminating any directories without html in their full url. Why not -filetype:html instead? And what about blocking other server-side page extensions like .asp, .pl.and such? And what about all those mp3s that aren't in an open directory listing, but are linked to? I can imagine plenty of people will upload an Mp3 just to embed it in a web page.

    What about non-apache directories?

    Oh P.S: napster is so last century. :)
  • rprouse, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4So does this mean that the web browser can be used as an illegal file sharing application!!! My god, web servers are in violation too! The RIAA had better let loose its lawyers on Microsoft, Firefox, Opera, Apache...

    Oh, wait, someone could email me an MP3, more illegal filesharing! What if they mail me a CD!

    Just goes to show you how stupid all the filesharing lawsuits are ;)
  • Attrition, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Dugg for the tips in the comments.
  • javiel, on 07/08/2008, -0/+2http://www.altavista.com/audio/default

    http://www.albumbase.com/
  • FizixMan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11In before RIAA sues Google for a bazillion dollars per song.
  • baalzebub, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9goopster
  • RufusSeptimus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Wouldn't the RIAA love this story???
    (I hate to be redundant, but hey, it goes without saying...I just wanted to say it)
    • kckman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8It clearly didn't go without saying, did it?
  • DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1http://www.tyoogle.com/

    Though it's a lot less reliable than it used to be.
  • llMll, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4not only is this old, but this has been proven to not 'effectively' work...thank you but no thank you, id rather use allofmp3 instead.

    at least i know what i get for my 10 cents
    • AutoXer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I used to use allofmp3 all the time... until my credits ran out. I haven't had any luck trying to add any back in. : (
  • P373Y, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20http://www.thepiratebay.org
  • ruslanr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1briefli.com anyone?
  • almighty, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Very old.
  • IncognitoCraven, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4Gah! WTF are you schmucks upvoting something so simple, obvious and OLD?!
  • thenoise, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15wow! it's like 1999 all over again!
  • sulaco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"you will only find open indexes"

    You might also find worthless crap like this:

    http://www.infoweb.co.nz/index-of-a-playlist
    • llMll, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4aaaahhhhhhhh...couldnt think of it at the time, but yes and thank you, perfect example of why this should be buried
  • johnalan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2still good work!
  • lillepalle, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Stop spreading this or it will stop working you *****....

    this only works because people dont know it does, so stfu.
    • specialK16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0not really, this is OOOOLD news....
  • scorpionmintred, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2This'll just result in the RIAA using the same search to get those users banned from their ISPs.. Or they'll try get Google to start blocking mp3 searches. I dunno, some way or another someone is going to get F'd now that everybody knows.

    On a brighter note I've been looking for a way to perform exactly this search on google!
  • Pheonixx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1typed in AFI and got a ***** load of ringtones
    http://www.kthankzbye.com/newuploads/Ringtones/
    Very Nice
    • Just1nD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13you got what you deserve searching for AFI
  • sally00, on 10/12/2007, -19/+2That doesn't work AT ALL.

    {-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "RATATAT"}

    {-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "CIARA"}

    {-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "EMINEM"}



    " Windows cannot find ...... Check the spelling and try again. "

    Nothin'........ I'm confused.
    • jackattack51, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2Take out the braces... { } /kill
    • StinkBait, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Put it in the Google search box, tard.
  • slowspin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Try this:

    Example Strings :
    - intitle:index.of + mp3 + "grandaddy" -html -htm -php -asp -txt -pls
    - "index of" + "mp3" + "radiohead" -html -htm -php
    - "index of" + mp3 + "grandaddy"
    - "index of" + inurl:mp3 + "beatles" -txt -pls
    - "index of" + intitle:mp3 + beatles
    - "last modified" + "shn" + "dylan"
    - "last modified" + inurl:shn + "bob dylan"
    - "parent of" + inurl:wma + "grandaddy"

    - Try (intitle:index.of + "mp3" + "band name" -htm -html -php -asp) first it
    is usually the most effective.
  • parkermauney, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1They should make a new scripting language. They can call it, Google.

    (search.ggl)
  • Dernit, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3Um.. wasn't this already submitted?
    • Just1nD, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7why do people always ask that question or say its already been submitted. some people haven't seen it if its become popular... again.
    • Dernit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Because now it's just blogspam.

      That's it. I'm going to start a blog that reposts old digg articles 3 to 6 mos. later!
      It'll be the most popular thing ever!
    • spinchange, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that's another great little parasitic web 2.0 start-up idea actually. call it ridiculous or recyclr or something ~ start a little blogspam enterprise.
  • 8-bit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nice.
  • oscaralexander, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Sweet. Just modified this and added it as a default search keyword (od, for open directories) to Nutshell. See: http://www.gonutshell.com
  • DannySpace, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0How can you do this to find movie clips or actors???
  • MrViklund, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Old...

    This was one of the tips in an article posted to Digg not long ago about Google Searching if I remember correctly.
    It works Ok but it won't turn Google into Napster if that was what you hoped for. If you find some copyrighted stuff and allot of free stuff and loads of crap. This only demonstrates the power of Google if you know how to search, nothing else.
  • Soldan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4the downloading of mp3's is just so tired now..

    books are where its at ... 8)
  • sicclife, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The only problem is the quality on average is way to poor.
  • andrewmcintyre, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Or Just search "Artist Name" torrent in google and find good links to a 2p2 network rather than some crappy web directory.
  • Toasterstrudull, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2when i click the links on these pages it takes me to a quicktime file...

    this may sound stupid but how do i get it to download?
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