bitmagnet VS btfs

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 happens to be one of the pipe dream roadmap milestones for bitmagnet: https://bitmagnet.io/#pipe-dream-features

I used to use magnetico and wanted to make something that would use crawled info hashes to fetch the metadata and retrieve the file listing, then search a folder for any matching files. You'd probably want to pre-hash everything in the folder and cache the hashes.

I hope bitmagnet gets that ability, it would be super cool

You could run your own personal insurance of a DHT scraper / indexer via bitmagnet[0].

Make sure to read the docs for minimising database size and traffic volume pending available resources.

[0]:https://bitmagnet.io

Appreciate that you took the time to file an issue:

https://github.com/bitmagnet-io/bitmagnet/issues/11

Something in a similar vein: BTFS, mount a torrent file (or magnet link) as a read only drive https://github.com/johang/btfs

It's really good, and use it a lot of times

Github Page

Some systems are more appropriate than just those options, but it requires player cooperation.

For instance on Android, NOVA Video Player supports torrent streaming. Or btplay from https://github.com/johang/btfs .

The way they work is better for the network, because it asks only for the N next MB from current position to be available ASAP, but the rest can be downloaded randomly to help the network like a standard client would do.