magnetico

If you just want the decentralized torrent search there's also Magnetico [1] and Bitmagnet [2]. Tribler tries to be a whole lot more, including its own tor-like network for anonymity and this latest AI powered search to make it easier to find content you might not know by name 1: https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico 2: https://bitmagnet.io/

This is really neat. I'll need to check it out. A couple years ago I ran my own instance of Magnetico (https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico), but this project looks a lot more polished.

From https://github.com/bitmagnet-io/bitmagnet/issues/11 > The DHT implementation was largely borrowed from Magnetico (https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico) a popular and widely used app which is likewise unable to service these requests.

There is: https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico. Working like a charm. You also want to know which torrent looks legit, so you may want to query trackers ... Here you go: https://sr.ht/~rakoo/magneticos/

You can't build a decentralized search because there's no way to trust whatever results you get until you actually build it. If you don't want to rely on a specific community, your best bet is to crawl yourself and search locally: you can do that with magnetico (https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico/). Don't be frightened by the fact that it is archived, it works. The problem then will be, how do you make sure your content is legit? There's no magic way here, the best thing you can do is compare the number of seeders and aim for the highest. If a torrent is fake, people will delete it and it won't be seeded. I have a thingy for that: https://sr.ht/~rakoo/magneticos/ The problem then becomes, number of seeders naturally selects towards popular content. It doesn't ensure viability of content. But I don't think there's a technical answer t

https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico Someone else did this a while back, universe continues to exist.

I had been working on this successfully for a couple years in the past before I got tired of it and moved on. I still think it's a magnificent idea, to be able to host your own torrent site and to decentralise the last centralised bit of BitTorrent. https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico

Using bittorrent in a really decentralized way: https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico/

I just get a rickroll gif on your link. Did you mean this project? "Autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite." https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico

> you can passively collect info from the DHT swarm and build up an index over time For anyone wanting to pursue this, I feel like I can share, I used this recently https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico, people share database dumps regularly. I found ~4 DB dumps and merging scripts are all you need to get up and running.

Magnetico[1] is an easy-to-use, self-hosted DHT crawler. It has a web UI that shows statistics and gives you a search engine (it uses sqlite full-text search). It needs quite a bit of bandwidth and some storage space, but worked well so far, for me. I've been running it for a couple of years and it indexed around 12.5M torrents (36GB of uncompressed database). [1]: https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico

I'm running magnetico (https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico) on my VPS. I currently have an index of 1.6M magnet links stored in a 5GB database. SQLite is most interesting not when the database is small, but when there are very few writes and all you do is reading. You can also look at https://datasette.io/ and see how SQLite is perfect for representing a lot of datasets and querying them

I'm using magnetico (https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico), a selfhosted bittorrent DHT scraper. After a few months of running I now have a little bit under 1M magnets in a ~3G database. SQLite is useful not just because I can query it with the full power of a relational database, but because I'm using its FTS capability for searching. If I had to install a typical database or some search engine I would never have used it. It is more than enough for what I'm using it for.

Having a distributed search engine is far from easy (there's the main issue of trust in the index). It's possible to do it the other way around, thanks to DHT scraping being allowed: everyone can scrape the peers and build an index at home, with tools like magnetico (https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico) for example

Hello HN, I am the (only) developer behind magnetico[0], the (first?) fully-decentralised BitTorrent search engine suite that you can host yourself. It is intended to replace public trackers, so to speak. It was featured on Hacker News and TorrentFreak: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14018877 https://torrentfreak.com/magnetico-a-personal-torrent-search-engine-that-cant-be-s… I believe that the project serves an actual need, that is, decentralising the only central component of the BitTorrent stack: trackers. I have been developing the project for the past 3 years and I know that it still has lots of room for improvement, but the development came to a halt as I burnt out. I no longer have the will to work on this project, simple as that. It consists of ~4.2k lines of Go, and ~500 lines of very basic JS. I would be grat