bitmagnet VS mldht

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

Another alternative is https://github.com/the8472/mldht which, contrary to magnetico, strives to be a nice citizen (its author is active in the bittorrent community AFAIU)

Oh, I already have implemented something[0] like that. It doesn't need lambdas or anything "cloud scale" like that. You "just" need a few dozen to a hundred IP addresses assigned to one machine and run a multi-homed DHT node on that to passively observe traffic from multiple points in the keyspace.

But neither of these approaches is what I'd call a "super simple DHT crawler CLI tool" that the initial comment was asking about. BEP51 is intended to make crawling simple enough that it can run on a single home internet connection, but a proper implementation still isn't trivial.

[0] https://github.com/the8472/mldht