Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine

Re:Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only tor... by rnhmjoj on Monday August 09, 2021 @07:15PM (#28123500)

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 bit of bandwidth and some storage space, but worked well so far, for me. I've been running it for a couple of years and it indexed around 12.5M torrents (36GB of uncompressed database).

[1]: https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico

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Re:Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only tor... by ComputerGuru on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:22PM (#28124272)

Do you mind sharing what sample daily/monthly bandwidth during discovery looks like?

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Re:Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only tor... by rnhmjoj on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @02:38AM (#28125735)

You can somewhat control the bandwith by limiting the number of simultaneous peers: in my case the usage seems to be around 5 Mbps up/down.

If you're running it from home, the real problem is not the bandwidth but the number of open connections the router has to keep track (assuming the network is NATed). The default settings will likely crash any cheap consumer router, so I would run the daemon from a VPS or a machine that isn't behind a NAT.

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