magnetico
Autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite.
magnetico is the first autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite that is designed
for end-users. The suite consists of two packages:
- magneticod: Autonomous BitTorrent DHT crawler and metadata fetcher.
- magneticow: Lightweight web interface for magnetico.
Both programs, combined together, allows anyone with a decent Internet connection to access the vast
amount of torrents waiting to be discovered within the BitTorrent DHT space, without relying on any
central entity.
magnetico liberates BitTorrent from the yoke of centralised trackers & web-sites and makes it
truly decentralised. Finally!
Features
- Easy installation & minimal requirements:
- Pre-compiled static binaries and Docker images are provided.
- Root access is not required to install or to use.
- Near-zero configuration:
- Both programs work out of the box, and magneticow can be used without a web-server too.
- Detailed, step-by-step manual to guide you through the installation.
- No reliance on any centralised entity:
- magneticod trawls the BitTorrent DHT by "going" from one node to another, and fetches the
metadata using the nodes without using trackers.
- magneticod trawls the BitTorrent DHT by "going" from one node to another, and fetches the
- Resilience:
- Unlike client-server model that web applications use, P2P networks are chaotic and
magneticod is designed to handle all the operational errors accordingly.- Currently on paper, wait for the v1.0!
- Unlike client-server model that web applications use, P2P networks are chaotic and
- High performance implementation in Go:
- magneticod utilizes every bit of your resources to discover as many infohashes & metadata as
possible.
- magneticod utilizes every bit of your resources to discover as many infohashes & metadata as
- Built-in lightweight web interface:
- magneticow features a lightweight web interface to help you access the database without
getting on your way.
- magneticow features a lightweight web interface to help you access the database without
Screenshots
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BitTorrent, being a distributed P2P file sharing protocol, has long suffered because of the
centralised entities that people depended on for searching torrents (websites) and for discovering
other peers (trackers). Introduction of DHT (distributed hash table) eliminated the need for
trackers, allowing peers to discover each other through other peers and to fetch metadata from the
leechers & seeders in the network. magnetico is the finishing move that allows users to search
for torrents in the network, hence removing the need for centralised torrent websites.
Installation Instructions
WARNING:
magnetico is still under active construction, and is considered alpha software. Please
use magnetico suite with care and follow the installation instructions carefully to install
it & secure the installation. Feel perfectly free to send bug reports, suggestions, or whatever
comes to your mind to send to us through GitHub or personal e-mail.
WARNING:
Do NOT clone the repository to install magnetico,
as it is never meant to be stable (except
releases of course).
- Install magneticod first by following its installation instructions.
- Install magneticow afterwards by following its
installation instructions.
Alternatively, just grab it from Docker Hub!
License
All the code is licensed under AGPLv3, unless stated otherwise specifically. See COPYING for
details.
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Dedicated to Cemile Binay, in whose hands I thrived.
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