SEsergiotapia·Oct 16, 2026
There's also my project that also crawls the DHT and other sources.
https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo
In Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarrsergiotapia
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sergiotapia / magnetissimo
magnetissimo
Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database.
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Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database.
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My Elixir/Phoenix project Magnetissimo. When KickassTorrents died, I thought I should just build my own crawler and be done with it. Elixir's OTP was a fantastic fit, I scrape…
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
21 sourcesFound while comparing options to catalog magnet torrents and search the BitTorrent Distributed Hash Table (DHT). Similar to https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13505226
In Magnet-Metadata-API: Torrent Metadata API ServiceCheck out https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo it was a popular one like 7 years ago
In Show HN: I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in ElixirSee also: Magnetissimo [1], Torrentinim [2], and Spotweb [3].
[1] https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo
[2] https://github.com/sergiotapia/torrentinim
[3] https://github.com/spotweb/spotweb
In Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, and torrent searchMagnetissimo: Self-hosted web app to index torrent sites and save magnet links
3 points · Open discussionI liked magnetissimo (from the same author) much more, but its kind of sleeping:
https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo
In Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search enginealso Magnetissimo https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo
implemented using Elixir and Phoenix. Cool little project
In Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search enginehttps://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo - niche is: "self-hosted apps"
In It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)I own a 2.3K star Github repository (https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo), that while trivial in it's implementation, it's pretty useful to a ton of people.
There are a few core contributors to the project now and a Discord server as well and everything in this article rings true to me.
It becomes an obligation of sorts and you definitely feel like you're letting people down, especially when it comes to people who have taken the time to contribute and share feedback, let alone people who actually open PRs.
What I think can help is having more core contributors with write permissions, share the load. Or be up front in your readme and say, "I only check this once a quarter".
In The struggles of an open source maintainerMagnetissimo: index popular torrent sites and search the local database
2 points · Open discussionIt's more but not even 100MB: https://archive.org/details/pirate-bay-torrent-dumps-2004-20...
This does not include the descriptions though.
Also check out https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo
In How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate BayI can see this working if your project's target audience is developers. But for most projects where the target audience is just regular users, most vastly prefer a simple CRUD form to create an issue.
Checkout some of the issue I have in my repo: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo
They are valuable insight into the problems people have, and if I asked them to open a PR for every problem I would most likely have 1 or 2 at most issues open. Everybody loses.
In Turning Off GitHub Issues (2016)Rarbg has an API, they actually let me know in my PR to include Rarbg: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo/pull/45#issuecom...
In ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for GoodI was about to add them to our tracker list. :(
https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo
There's something really sad when these sites die, a part of my teenage life is gone for good. I felt the same way when Demonoid shut down.
Can these sites skate the legality line by offering only magnet links? Why are their costs so high if they can just host magnet links and cache the site with Varnish or something similar?
In ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for GoodIt's not needed, thankfully:
https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo/issues/30
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