NewTrackon is fantastic, and it has an API: https://newtrackon.com/list

I've written a Chrome extension which periodically grabs the list of active trackers from NewTrackon and automatically adds them to magnet links as you're browsing. It's made torrenting so much faster for me.

Could you share the extension?

Ha I also navigate here

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ngosang/trackerslist/maste...

And paste the list in my torrent app. The above list updates daily or so, so just by visiting it you get the latest and greatest.

What we really need is a way to mirror that GH repo full of tracker URLs all around the world managed by Git clone-pushing bots so that these things can possibly never be shut down.

There - I said it, we need more GitHubs around the world, hosted in every country to curb censorship :)

What’s your workflow to query these and find what you’re looking for?

If you want to know what files are being shared, there are some indexing apps for selfhosting that can scan the peers of a tracker (though DHT crawling is probably the better solution)

Uhh. Your torrent client will automatically handle querying them and finding what you're looking for (peers).

op is very obviously asking how to find out which files are being shared rather than finding peers

I’m talking about creating new torrents, not finding existing ones.

I suppose another use case is when you found a rare torrent which no longer works (no seeds, trackers down, etc), you might be able to get it to work this way. My question is: anyone got success stories with this use case?