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Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database.

21 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 3 stories, 18 comments · first 2016-08-21 · latest 2026-10-16

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  1. There's also my project that also crawls the DHT and other sources. https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo
    comment by sergiotapia · 2026-10-16 · in Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
  2. …to catalog magnet torrents and search the BitTorrent Distributed Hash Table (DHT). Similar to https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13505226
    comment by toomuchtodo · 2026-03-09 · in Magnet-Metadata-API: Torrent Metadata API Service
  3. Check out https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo it was a popular one like 7 years ago
    comment by arthurcolle · 2025-06-20 · in Show HN: I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir
  4. See also: Magnetissimo [1], Torrentinim [2], and Spotweb [3]. [1] https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo [2] https://github.com/sergiotapia/torrentinim [3] https://github.com/spotweb/spotweb
    comment by Fnoord · 2023-10-05 · in Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, and torrent search
  5. I liked magnetissimo (from the same author) much more, but its kind of sleeping: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo
    comment by nix23 · 2021-08-10 · in Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine
  6. also Magnetissimo https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo implemented using Elixir and Phoenix. Cool little project
    comment by arthurcolle · 2021-08-09 · in Show HN: Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine
  7. https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo - niche is: "self-hosted apps"
    comment by sergiotapia · 2020-05-17 · in It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)
  8. I own a 2.3K star Github repository ( https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo ), that while trivial in it's implementation, it's pretty useful to a ton of people. There are a few core contributors to the project now and a Discord…
    comment by sergiotapia · 2019-05-17 · in The struggles of an open source maintainer
  9. …This does not include the descriptions though. Also check out https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo
    comment by anc84 · 2017-12-14 · in How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay
  10. …vastly prefer a simple CRUD form to create an issue. Checkout some of the issue I have in my repo: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo They are valuable insight into the problems people have, and if I asked them to open a PR for…
    comment by sergiotapia · 2017-05-24 · in Turning Off GitHub Issues (2016)
  11. Rarbg has an API, they actually let me know in my PR to include Rarbg: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo/pull/45#issuecom...
    comment by sergiotapia · 2017-05-17 · in ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good
  12. I was about to add them to our tracker list. :( https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo There's something really sad when these sites die, a part of my teenage life is gone for good. I felt the same way when Demonoid shut down. Can…
    comment by sergiotapia · 2017-05-17 · in ExtraTorrent Shuts Down for Good
  13. It's not needed, thankfully: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo/issues/30
    comment by eeZah7Ux · 2017-01-28 · in Show HN: Magnetissimo – Self-hosted torrent search engine written in Elixir
  14. …very welcome to the crawler folder, it's super easy to write a crawler for your favorite site! https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo/tree/master/lib/...
    comment by sergiotapia · 2017-01-28 · in Show HN: Magnetissimo – Self-hosted torrent search engine written in Elixir
  15. That's why I built Magnetissimo: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo It's easy to build a crawler, the hard part is spending time on bullshit like DMCA takedowns and such. Even if you say: "I just crawl, I don't provide download…
    comment by sergiotapia · 2017-01-18 · in Show HN: Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine
  16. …it broke the 200 star barrier on my Github profile. With Elixir to boot! I love this language. https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo
    comment by sergiotapia · 2016-11-15 · in Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
  17. …Would love to add a logo to the project. - Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/B9OFxTx.png - Github: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo - License: MIT
    comment by sergiotapia · 2016-08-27 · in Offer HN: Free logo design for an open source project
  18. …to understand. Here's just one example from me - both examples scrape some info from HTML: Elixir: https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo/blob/master/lib/... Go: https://github.com/sergiotapia/gophers/blob/master/scrape.go... You tell…
    comment by sergiotapia · 2016-08-21 · in What Golang Is and Is Not