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Re:Rarbg Is No More by qersist3nce on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @07:29AM (#36137056)
So these crawl torrent indexers and provide search functionality?

Do they also search private indexers?

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Re:Rarbg Is No More by SSLy on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @07:41AM (#36137152)
You can't search private indexers without having account on them.
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Re:Rarbg Is No More by dark-star on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @08:32AM (#36137572)
they are not searching the indexers, they are searching the DHT directly.

Some private trackers do not set the "disallow DHT" flag, so those will be indexed as well. Most do, however, and it's impossible to scrape those without an account, yes

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Re:Rarbg Is No More by arsome on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @07:39AM (#36137135)
They crawl the peer to peer DHT, private torrents have a flag so they do not get announced via DHT.
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