Star and follow the repo for updates to the project.
Since KickassTorrents was killed, I decided to write my own indexer using Elixir and Phoenix.
It’s still a WIP but I just started last night. You give it a public torrent site URL and it will sniff out all magnet links and save them to the Postgresql database.
The idea is that anyone will be able to run this locally or on a VPS or heroku and have a working torrent indexer. (not a tracker).
No more single point of failure.
I would LOVE some suggestions on improving the code within crawler.ex, I know the code there is ugly as hell.
Yep I’m actually just saving the magnet link. There are no files, just database text fields name and magnet. Should be super duper ultra turbo magnum fast.
Edit: I still need to figure out how to scale this and run crawl’s in parallel. Right now I can just feed it a URL and it sprawls from there sequentially.
At this point, I need to tweak some parser code as you can see there’s some errors in the video there. And integrate my brother’s UX design into the app.
Then I’ll look into documenting it, and put up deployment instructions. I have a feeling metaprogramming would help me in the Crawler.ex but I’ll get back to that later.
After a hiatus, and lots of learning (thanks to this forum!), I’m back with a vengeance to work on Magnetissimo. If you’re new to Elixir and want to learn how it can be used for “real projects” check out our source code.
I also added Theophile as a contributor and he’s done a tremendous job adding some really valuable things to the project. Recently we migrated the project to Phoenix 1.3
We have our Discord server now: Magnetissimo / Torrentinim
Join us to discuss new features, bugs, tips or just chat about torrenting in general.
New coat of paint, courtesy Bulma!
Updated to the latest and greatest Phoenix/Elixir.
I use the term updated losely, it’s a rewrite!
Crawling torrent sources using their RSS feeds as available. This means as soon as a torrent release is out, Magnetissimo will sniff it out for you. Near-instantly!
New Wiki pages on how to run this on systemd, ubuntu, etc.
A fantastic designer donated his talents and created a gorgeous logo for the project.
Many thanks to Theophile, thatpixelcrown and caskd for their contributions.
That sounds pretty neat! How does that portion work? My understanding (that’s likely flawed) is that RSS feeds are typically polled which could mean a considerable delay.
Which in turn might violate a lot of usage terms… Most feeds (not torrent related) I have used so far, asked you to not poll more often than once every 15 minutes.
Clientsoftware, their developers and their users need to be aware of the fact, that each request to the server produces load on the server side and also creates traffic.
I hope you don’t mind but I have unlisted the thread as somebody has been in contact querying whether it may put the forum in a compromising position legally, particularly since more recently you have added screenshots which show copyrighted material.
You can still use this thread to get help etc, as those who have interacted with the thread will still see your replies.
If there was no mention or screengrabs of copyrighted material we could re-list it, but I understand if you don’t want to do that, and so hope you don’t mind me unlisting the thread on the forum.