I’m looking to find out which torrent search engines you consider the best, especially those with advanced search features. By advanced search, I mean something like this.
To make this easy to tally up, please post your favorite as a comment below. Upvote the ones you also use. I’d love to see which torrent search engines this community relies on the most!
Relevant lemmy community: https://programming.dev/c/torrent_trackers@lemmy.ml
Prowlarr and all my accounrs on trackers
This. Sometimes I’ll go to an actual torrent site for shits & grins but why go search on 1 site when I can search 50+ at once?
Exactly my thinking.
Every once I will visit my fav tracker just to break out of my bubble.
Why do I need to install this? Why can’t I just search online somewhere?
It’s mainly used for automation within arr setups
Prowlarr allows you to add as many trackers as you want. It supports torrent and Usenet sites, public or private.
You can give it a single search query and it’ll search all viable sources simultaneously and return a compiled list of everything it finds.
You can also direct it to your arr programs like Sonarr and Radarr. Prowlarr will add its indexers to your other apps so they can utilize its search capabilities.
You can’t use public search engines for private trackers.
You can use public trackers in prowlarr and jackettPretty big plus for me.
Do you mean you can use private trackers in prowlarr and jackett? Just to clarify, since you wrote “public”.
Yes. Both.
There is only a selection of public trackers but the popular ones like 1337x, TPB, (formerly) Rarbg, etc. are there.
Really depends on what you need.
Depending on the trackers no other solution can even come close
Do you know a way to incorporate private trackers into search engines?
Literally the thing they said. Prowlarr.
Makes sense, sorry for the stupid question. Never used and *arr application before :)
No worries, welcome to the high seas.
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I’m a simple man, I just search directly in qbittorrent.
Agreed, I have my jackett daemon wired up to qbittorrent and all is good!
I love qbittorent. I love that it’s in the Linux repo too.
BitTorrent DHT search engine which analyses the DHT network in real-time and provides full-text search over active torrents.
Snowfl suits my needs 99% of the time
Wow! Thanks mate
i agree, but the website is annoying to use imo
Been using it for years, but i do agree it kinda sucks, and the giant cypto ad on the first screen is annoying. It is very easy to use, you can filter by top of day, week, etc and has a good search capability. I used to prefer
btdbuntil that one got shut down, haven’t found a better site since.
1337x.to my fav since long time now
It’s 1337x.to ! There are many fake sites…
WTF I must have been drunk, fixed
Unfortunately, 1337x isn’t a known unsafe site since a cryptominer infected version of Baldur’s Gate 3 was uploaded with admins removing negative comments about the miner[1]. Go ahead and use it for media, but be diligent about any software[2]
To be clear, you should be diligent with all software downloads online, including authentic software purchases which may be intercepted through various means to distribute to you malware. In the case of 1337x, as the admins there are part of the malware distribution however, due diligence is especially necessary. ↩︎
I red the malware situation with games, yes, and actually I use that source for media only
Generally Jackett filters + eyeballs. Searching many engines beats any individual.
Jackett 😁 no seriously, Jackett
The one and only
+1 to those who said DHT.
There’s no tagging support, but I’m not sure why I’d need tagging.
DHT crawling reveals pretty much every active public torrent, & finding what I want is just a matter of including it in the search terms.“s04e10 2160p x265” brings up every torrent containing a file with s04e10, 2160p, & x265 in its filename.
I could foresee plenty of situations where tagging for quality, & for metadata beyond filenames & sizes, would be useful; I just haven’t actually had it come up.
Everything I need shows up on DHT search.
Well, except .STL files, but that seems to be because they’re given away for free so often there’s no impetus to make torrents of them?
1337x.to 95% of the time, it has what I’m looking for.
I wouldn’t rate it as a favorite at all, but I tend to use torrentz2.nz
torrents-csv
The one on fmhy.net
DHT lel
