Torrentinim
Dev tools
torrent search engine
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
1 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score -0.15.
Idea: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Very low memory and binary size
From 2 comments
Impressive! > High performance, extremely low memory footprint. > RAM usage (avg.): 21.5MB > Binary application size: 600KB
elcritch on HNApplication size here[1] is 1.8MiB, Ram 131MiB (release build -> make build) [1] Freebsd13 x64, Nim Compiler Version 1.4.8
nix23 on HN
Useful for finding releases faster than websites
From 1 comment
I use it to search for DODI releases and x265 releases, it's faster than looking through websites. Once I finish Radarr/Sonnar support, I'll point my instances at Torrentinim.
sergiotapia on HN
Objections
Caches only feed torrents, so it misses older content
From 1 comment
This queries the tracker websites, but I was hoping this would be a distributed hash table (DHT) search engine, like bitcq. Bitcq is indispensible for obscure torrents, but its…
dmos62 on HN
Seems to only query tracker sites rather than DHT
From 1 comment
This queries the tracker websites, but I was hoping this would be a distributed hash table (DHT) search engine, like bitcq. Bitcq is indispensible for obscure torrents, but its…
dmos62 on HN
Possibly enables piracy
From 1 comment
What do people use this for? I mean beside creating another pirate bay (CIMMW, that's the only thing comes to mind when I see "torrent search engine").
wiradikusuma on HN
Requests
Add NSFW content filtering
From 2 comments
This looks nice! Is there a way to configure it to exclude certain categories of content (such as nsfw)? Do you tend to run this behind a proxy?
reilly3000 on HNAfter a brief look at the code it doesn't seem so, however there's a procedure (insert_torrent() in src/torrents.nim) in which a retrieved torrent is added to the database, of…
squarefoot on HN
Support for Radarr/Sonarr integration
From 1 comment
I use it to search for DODI releases and x265 releases, it's faster than looking through websites. Once I finish Radarr/Sonnar support, I'll point my instances at Torrentinim.
sergiotapia on HN
Questions
How the author uses it and with what interface
From 1 comment
Interesting project, what are some similar self-hosted solutions that allow you to search torrents on public trackers? To the author: How do you personally use it, do you have a…
belval on HN
Whether it runs behind a proxy
From 1 comment
This looks nice! Is there a way to configure it to exclude certain categories of content (such as nsfw)? Do you tend to run this behind a proxy?
reilly3000 on HN
Alternatives named
Jackett and Prowlarr
From 2 comments
> what are some similar self-hosted solutions that allow you to search torrents on public trackers? Jackett. https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett
LeoPanthera on HNalso Prowlarr https://github.com/Prowlarr/Prowlarr
nirav72 on HN
Magnetico DHT crawler
From 1 comment
Magnetico[1] is an easy-to-use, self-hosted DHT crawler. It has a web UI that shows statistics and gives you a search engine (it uses sqlite full-text search). It needs quite a…
rnhmjoj on HN
Magnetissimo by same author
From 2 comments
also Magnetissimo https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo implemented using Elixir and Phoenix. Cool little project
arthurcolle on HNI liked magnetissimo (from the same author) much more, but its kind of sleeping: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo
nix23 on HN