popcorn-desktop VS Magnetico

Wow, the Windows version (https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/releases...) has a lot of files... 18,450.

Desktop: This for last (official) release: https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/releases it uses the older NW.js version.

And here for latest (dev) build: https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/actions/runs/. (you'll have to sin-up to GitHub before downloading is activated)

https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/actions/runs/5481452659 and download the version for your OS. Let me know if you need further help (This page is the pahge for the LATEST release util now (July 7, 2023) Steps to always get the latest release: https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/actions > Click on "Latest Build" on the menu to the left > Click on "Update build_old_nwjs.yml" > Scroll to the bottom of the page and find the releases on the Artifacts section.

Open feature request at https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/issues/1990 for that though its not as straightforward as it is for movies and we also need to avoid making excessive calls to opensubtitles API so.. issue still open and nothing merged.

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.

This is likely your best bet, but I'd recommend you use postgres over sqlite, this is however where development died so some features like search or stats aren't implemented while using pg as the db.

You can create decentralized bittorrent indexers though (see https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico as an example)! This means you can search for bittorrent files without having to rely on a centralized service (although building the index does require some time & storage space of course).

https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico

Someone else did this a while back, universe continues to exist.

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

Although I admit, that I would love to see a maintained DHT search solution (like magnetico or dhtcrawler2).

Yeah, you probably found it. Abandoned, yes, but not necessarily unfinished.

A magnet search is easy enough to self-host, I can provide you with instructions to self-host a clearnet magnet search engine over I2P in the meantime, but you can probably figure it out from this: https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico which is an easy to self-host DHT search engine.