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

• tribler

  65 4,687 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

  14 2,665 1.7 Go

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

https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico

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

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• spn

  25 252 8.6 Go

  Discontinued 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

  15 407 0.0 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

  188 11,313 9.9 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.

• SaaSHub

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