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Hello! 👋 I've been working on magnetico since 2017 (less so in the recent years) and seeing so many people interested in it and using it has been a great source of joy and pride for me. However, I have decided that it is for the best to acknowledge and admit openly that I no longer have as much time as I did in high school, nor any willingness to spend the little time I now have by working on magnetico or any other free software in general, except what I think is the most important problem in the world that I can work on at that moment.

Fork it, improve it, ship it; keep up the good fight against scarcity. ☀️

Bora <bora at boramalper.org>

magnetico

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

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

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

Screenshots

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The HomepageSearching for torrentsViewing the metadata of a torrent

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 or personal e-mail.

WARNING:

Do NOT clone the repository to install magnetico, as it is never meant to be stable (except releases of course).

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

Docker

Run magneticod and magneticow with:

make docker

It will run magnetico from already built image on Docker Hub!

You should access magneticow at http://localhost:8080.

To build fresh images from source, first run:

make image

Then run make docker. It ensures you run updated images of magnetico.

License

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

Donations

Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/boramalper

PayPal

https://paypal.me/boramalper

Cryptocurrencies (Coinbase)


Dedicated to Cemile Binay, in whose hands I thrived.

Bora M. ALPER bora@boramalper.org