BitSearch still works
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2024
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Why not run your own scraper?
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https://bitmagnet.io/ (probably the simplest)
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https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico & a cli search utility for it: https://sr.ht/~rakoo/magneticos/
That's really cool!
I have a few questions
How much configuration is required so that it successfully finds all the high quality torrents?
How long do I need to keep it running to find existing quality torrents?
How resource intensive is the program?
I have a hitch there must be extra steps so make the data reliable but who knows ,
Is that one definitely scraping bittorrent DHT? From what I can tell it looks like it used for scraping IPFS DHT via HTTP. Been a bit since I tinkered with IPFS but I do know services exist to scrape the IPFS DHT, this might be one of the backend tools being used for that.
Is this significantly different from the QBitTorrent search engine?
Not sure that is one of their official domains? https://solidtorrents.eu and https://solidtorrents.to seem to be up at the moment - but you're right their uptime has been spotty.
As an alternative you could always check if https://bitsearch.to is up, that site is run by the same admin and shares the same torrent database AFAIK.
I don't know if the site admin is around on Lemmy, they are (or used to be) on Reddit.