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The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 20 Years Old | Sep 2023
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I forgot to mention there's also Jackett:

https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett

Qbittorrent uses plugins to the sites themselves (including to the local Jackett instance via an API):

https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/Unofficia...

And it's what I use to search for torrents.

I would never trust a site without an adblocker and keep uBlock active in Private Mode.

But with all this, you need to know what you're searching for, browsing for content is another story
Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release? | Oct 2022
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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 something on their computers to obtain torrents will just use Jackett (https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett). It can search through the huge number of torrents, which no local DHT scraping/search engine can provide.
Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System | Dec 2021
I have found that after trying a bunch of different setups during the years. Kodi, Plex, etc. I have settled on using: Sonarr[0], Radarr[1] and Lidarr[2]; combined with Jacket[3] and your favorite torrent downloader (I use Deluge). Add the TV Series you follow or movies you want to watch.

This setup downloads everything for me once a movie or episode becomes available to download, and then I only watch content that is already downloaded using VLC. This is pretty good specially if your Internet connection is a bit spotty at times.

I've been using this setup for years now, and I'm pretty happy with it.

[0] https://sonarr.tv/ [1] https://radarr.video/ [2] https://lidarr.audio/ [3] https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett

Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine | Aug 2021
> what are some similar self-hosted solutions that allow you to search torrents on public trackers?

Jackett. https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett

GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned | Nov 2020
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Perhaps bittorrent clients don't mention specific sites but there's no end of related projects that do, e.g. expand the three "Supported ___ Trackers" lists on https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett

I'm not aware of any notices filed against that specific project.