retonato

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by retonato 4y ago
Of course, you can just provide a code for users to run on their own computers, but don't expect that anyone will really use it (maybe just a few people here and there, I really mean it). Everyone, who is really hardcore enough to run
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by retonato 4y ago
If despite all this you still decide to go forward - don't forget to import all the available torrent data on the internet (there are tens of dumps here and there), that way you will have MUCH larger database, than just by DHT scraping
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by retonato 4y ago
Don't underestimate possible legal problems. Tech people tend to simply throw them aside ("I will use a VPN/Cloudflare/Onion, no one will find me"), but here are my 5 cents: 1. Most likely - you site will not gain a
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by retonato 4y ago
I have been operating a BitTorrent search engine for a few years (it is closed now), here is some advice if you want to launch it as a public website: 1. There is no absence of people opening the kind of torrent indexers, which you have in
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by retonato 6y ago
Thanks again for all feedback. I added all recent feature suggestions on github ( https://github.com/retonato/torrenthistory-public/issues ). You can vote for them there (just give a thumbs up for the issue you lik
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by retonato 6y ago
In my opinion even showing infohash would be illegal. Anything, which provides enough information for downloading by a generic torrent client.
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by retonato 6y ago
Thank you, I will
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by retonato 6y ago
In principle it is possible, but there would be some limitations: 1. Postgresql supports indexing to make regex searches faster from v9.3 (the current version is 13): https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/pgtrgm.html
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by retonato 6y ago
What is BRE? Search by regular expressions?
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by retonato 6y ago
At the very beginning (of January) search was done even through filenames, but then: 1. It turned out, that such search requires quite a lot of disk space for index. 2. It is not very useful without showing the actual matched filenames. Thi
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by retonato 6y ago
Sorry, I'm new to HN (as author). What do you mean by "pin"?
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by retonato 6y ago
I thought about some kind of distributed storage, but the technology is not there yet (=I cannot implement that easily, users cannot use it easily). The site uses a regular PostgreSQL database. Most data, though, is published on Internet ar
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by retonato 6y ago
It would be interesting to see if that standard replaces Bittorent v1. For now it is not nearly as popular (everyone just uses v1, I don't know about any site, which has any significant number of v2 torrents).
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by retonato 6y ago
I though about that, it is technically possible. More than that, it is relatively cheap (incoming traffic on most VPS is free). Still, I decided that searching by file size is much more cost effective. It is almost as good as searching by h
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by retonato 6y ago
That's a very good question. I think that dialog in filesharing/linking court cases has moved from "link vs torrent vs file" issue to "does this site/person make possible bypassing copyright protection, and, if
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by retonato 6y ago
Also, just to have a torrent indexer, which will be there forever. Other large indexers had almost 40-50 mln torrents, when they were closed, all that information disappeared almost overnight. In my case, the cost of running is very small,
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by retonato 6y ago
1. Checking if some torrent exists in principle (by searching for words in a name) 2. Searching for the same files in other torrents (when you click on the file size on some torrent page, it will show all other torrents, which contain files
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by retonato 6y ago
That's right, you can see torrent names and file names, your can search through them, but you cannot download anything. There are neither torrent files or infohashes there.
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Show HN: Torrenthistory – an open and legal torrent indexer(torrenthistory.org)
23 points by retonato 6y ago|30 comments
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by retonato 6y ago
There have been quite a lot of torrent indexers already, but most of them are sooner or later closed. So, I decided to create one more, simple enough (so it can work on its own on a relatively cheap VPS) and legal (so it would be much more