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It seems to be down for much time. It feels torrent scene is dying :(

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

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 ,

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

https://github.com/alanshaw/libp2p-dht-scrape-aas

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Is this significantly different from the QBitTorrent search engine?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago