Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release?

• tribler

  13 4,206 9.8 Python

  Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery

  

  Sorry for the bad news: it's not going to work.

  Can you filter the 95% spam and dead torrents?

  It's very very hard what you are trying to do. Takes lots of effort to be somewhat usable. It's duplicating Google, withou their monopoly. A few have tried. My university lab has been building a torrent search engine for 17 years and 3 months. Fully decentralised, no servers, no browser, now called Web3. Burning 7 million Euro in tax payer money, building a distributed ledger in Sep 2007. So expect a long road ahead. (our engine: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki)

• Magnetico

  2 2,665 1.7 Go

  Autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite.

  https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico

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

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• spn

  19 165 8.9 Go

  Safing Privacy Network

  

  This is some nice piece of work - will definitely return to read more about the underlying concepts.

  We are working in a similar area with similar problems: Building a new Tor/VPN-like privacy network. See https://safing.io/spn/

• torrent-paradise

  3 376 2.0 JavaScript

  Decentralized DHT search site for IPFS

  There’s also this which has since gone down but remains up on IPFS and its index hasn’t updated since January…

  https://github.com/urbanguacamole/torrent-paradise

  https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmQjsKamNFZRvCMXDvZXQmRYjsm...

• Jackett

  65 8,575 0.0 C#

  API Support for your favorite torrent trackers

  

  Of course, you can just provide a code for users to run on their own computers, but don't expect that anyone will really use it (maybe just a few people here and there, I really mean it). Everyone, who is really hardcore enough to run something on their computers to obtain torrents will just use Jackett (https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett). It can search through the huge number of torrents, which no local DHT scraping/search engine can provide.

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