magnetico

Fork Reason

I wanted to have newer binaries, alongside arm (well, namely Termux). Remove Docker and CI/Travis/Unneded files for this small fork.

Also to learn a bit of Go (maybe).

magnetico

Autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite.

magnetico is the first autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite that is designed for end-users. The suite consists of two packages:

• magneticod: Autonomous BitTorrent DHT crawler and metadata fetcher.
• magneticow: Lightweight web interface for magnetico.

Both programs, combined together, allows anyone with a decent Internet connection to access the vast amount of torrents waiting to be discovered within the BitTorrent DHT space, without relying on any central entity.

magnetico liberates BitTorrent from the yoke of centralised trackers & web-sites and makes it truly decentralised. Finally!

Features

• Easy installation & minimal requirements:
  • Pre-compiled static binaries are provided.
  • Root access is not required to install or to use.
• Near-zero configuration:
  • Both programs work out of the box, and magneticow can be used without a web-server too.
  • Detailed, step-by-step manual to guide you through the installation.
• No reliance on any centralised entity:
  • magneticod trawls the BitTorrent DHT by "going" from one node to another, and fetches the metadata using the nodes without using trackers.
• High performance implementation in Go:
  • magneticod utilizes every bit of your resources to discover as many infohashes & metadata as possible.
• Built-in lightweight web interface:
  • magneticow features a lightweight web interface to help you access the database without getting on your way.

Why?

BitTorrent, being a distributed P2P file sharing protocol, has long suffered because of the centralised entities that people depended on for searching torrents (websites) and for discovering other peers (trackers). Introduction of DHT (distributed hash table) eliminated the need for trackers, allowing peers to discover each other through other peers and to fetch metadata from the leechers & seeders in the network. magnetico is the finishing move that allows users to search for torrents in the network, hence removing the need for centralised torrent websites.

Installation Instructions

WARNING:

magnetico is still under active construction, and is considered alpha software. Please use magnetico suite with care and follow the installation instructions carefully to install it & secure the installation. Feel perfectly free to send bug reports, suggestions, or whatever comes to your mind to send to us through GitHub.

1. Install magneticod first by following its installation instructions.
2. Install magneticow afterwards by following its installation instructions.

If you can't run the release binaries provided by me, just follow the usual clone and make. Keep in mind you require go-bindata.

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/ez-me/magnetico.git
cd magnetico
make all

You should be able to access magneticow at http://localhost:8080.

License

All the code is licensed under AGPLv3, unless stated otherwise specifically. See COPYING for details.

Dedicated to Cemile Binay, in whose hands [Bora] thrived.

Bora M. ALPER