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Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by frgtpsswrdlame on Thursday July 27, 2017 @03:35PM (#14868646)
Yes, if you have a seedbox or something please host a few random parts! I have three or four hosted pieces and there aren't too many peers.
Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by icebraining on Thursday July 27, 2017 @03:51PM (#14868795)
Is there any way to tell which torrents have fewer seeds, without having to add them all to my client?
Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by frgtpsswrdlame on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:26PM (#14869752)
I wasn't able to figure out a way so I just picked a few at random. Is there an easy way to roll up like a heroku app or something that would check the health of only those torrents? That could be really useful to the libgen guys.
Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by icebraining on Thursday July 27, 2017 @07:31PM (#14870697)
I couldn't find anything, so I ended up making it myself using TorrentSniff.

http://genesis.andreparames.com/

Most of the trackers seem to be down, so it's just getting data from tracker2.wasabii.com, and even that is pretty slow, so it'll take a while to fetch for all 1693 torrents.

I wrote a script that pings the tracker and keeps regenerating a static HTML file, so it'll keep updating itself, though not very fast.

Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by frgtpsswrdlame on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @09:44AM (#14910458)
Just saw this, thanks! Super cool.
Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by stevenhuang on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:07PM (#14869538)
I would like to know as well.
Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by icebraining on Thursday July 27, 2017 @07:48PM (#14870807)
Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by stevenhuang on Friday July 28, 2017 @03:12AM (#14872547)
That's brilliant; nice work! Will try to seed some soon.