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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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software) in general, except what I think is [the most important problem in the world](http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivity#:~:text=not%20working%20on-,the%20most%20important%20problem%20in%20the%20world,-\\)%20but%20each%20little) that I can work on at that moment.\n\u003e\n\u003e Fork it, improve it, ship it; keep up the good fight against scarcity. ☀️\n\u003e\n\u003e Bora \u003cbora at [boramalper.org](https://boramalper.org/)\u003e\n\n# magnetico\n*Autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite.*\n\n[![chat on gitter](https://badges.gitter.im/gitterHQ/gitter.png)](https://gitter.im/magnetico-dev/magnetico-dev)\u0026emsp;[![Go](https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico/workflows/Go/badge.svg)](https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico/actions)\u0026emsp;[![CII Best Practices](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/1029/badge)](https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/1029)\n\nmagnetico is the first autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite that is *designed\nfor end-users*. The suite consists of two packages:\n\n- **magneticod:** Autonomous BitTorrent DHT crawler and metadata fetcher.\n- **magneticow:** Lightweight web interface for magnetico.\n\nBoth programs, combined together, allows anyone with a decent Internet connection to access the vast\namount of torrents waiting to be discovered within the BitTorrent DHT space, *without relying on any\ncentral entity*.\n\n**magnetico** liberates BitTorrent from the yoke of centralised trackers \u0026 web-sites and makes it\n*truly decentralised*. Finally!\n\n## Features\n- Easy installation \u0026 minimal requirements:\n  - [Pre-compiled static binaries](https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico/releases) and [Docker images](https://hub.docker.com/u/boramalper) are provided.\n  - Root access is *not* required to install or to use.\n- Near-zero configuration:\n  - Both programs work out of the box, and **magneticow** can be used without a web-server too.\n  - Detailed, step-by-step manual to guide you through the installation.\n- No reliance on any centralised entity:\n  - **magneticod** trawls the BitTorrent DHT by \"going\" from one node to another, and fetches the\n    metadata using the nodes without using trackers.\n- Resilience:\n  - Unlike client-server model that web applications use, P2P networks are *chaotic* and\n    **magneticod** is designed to handle all the operational errors accordingly.\n    - Currently on paper, wait for the v1.0!\n- High performance implementation in Go:\n  - **magneticod** utilizes every bit of your resources to discover as many infohashes \u0026 metadata as\n    possible.\n- Built-in lightweight web interface:\n  - **magneticow** features a lightweight web interface to help you access the database without\n    getting on your way.\n\n### Screenshots\n*Click on the images to view full-screen.*\n\n\u003c!-- Use https://www.tablesgenerator.com/markdown_tables --\u003e\n| ![The Homepage](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/488606a87a3e1d7238c0539c6b9cf8429e2c8f16/68747470733a2f2f696d6775722e636f6d2f3634794433714e2e706e67) | ![Searching for torrents](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/0b6def355a17b944de163a11f77c17c1c622280c/68747470733a2f2f696d6775722e636f6d2f34786a733335382e706e67) | ![ss](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/0bd679ad8bbf038b50c082d80a8e0e37516c813e/68747470733a2f2f696d6775722e636f6d2f6c3354685065692e706e67) |\n|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------:|:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------:|:---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------:|\n|                                                                     __The Homepage__                                                                    |                                                                     __Searching for torrents__                                                                    |                                                     __Viewing the metadata of a torrent__                                                     |\n\n## Why?\nBitTorrent, being a distributed P2P file sharing protocol, has long suffered because of the\ncentralised entities that people depended on for searching torrents (websites) and for discovering\nother peers (trackers). Introduction of DHT (distributed hash table) eliminated the need for\ntrackers, allowing peers to discover each other through other peers and to fetch metadata from the\nleechers \u0026 seeders in the network. **magnetico** is the finishing move that allows users to search\nfor torrents in the network, hence removing the need for centralised torrent websites.\n\n## Installation Instructions\n\u003e **WARNING:**\n\u003e\n\u003e **magnetico** is still under active construction, and is considered *alpha* software. Please\n\u003e use **magnetico** suite with care and follow the installation instructions carefully to install\n\u003e it \u0026 secure the installation. Feel perfectly free to send bug reports, suggestions, or whatever\n\u003e comes to your mind to send to us through GitHub or personal e-mail.\n\n\u003e **WARNING:**\n\u003e\n\u003e Do NOT clone the [repository](https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico) to install **magnetico**,\n\u003e as it is never meant to be stable (except\n\u003e [releases](https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico/releases) of course).\n\n1. Install **magneticod** first by following its [installation instructions](cmd/magneticod/README.md).\n2. Install **magneticow** afterwards by following its\n   [installation instructions](cmd/magneticow/README.md).\n\n### Docker\n\nRun **magneticod** and **magneticow** with:\n\n``` bash\nmake docker\n```\n\nIt will run magnetico from already built image on [Docker Hub](https://hub.docker.com/u/boramalper)!\n\nYou should access magneticow at \u003chttp://localhost:8080\u003e.\n\nTo build fresh images from source, first run:\n\n``` bash\nmake image\n```\n\nThen run `make docker`. It ensures you run updated images of magnetico.\n\n## License\n\nAll the code is licensed under AGPLv3, unless stated otherwise specifically. See `COPYING` for\ndetails.\n\n## Donations\n### Patreon\nhttps://www.patreon.com/boramalper\n\n### PayPal\nhttps://paypal.me/boramalper\n\n### Cryptocurrencies (Coinbase)\n- **BTC:** `3BLWjamWug3QQzcDDGwYLwuCqJyjcfYJB8`\n- **LTC:** `MRWX5SGCF7EvN15gpzT5b3KQD3Z91gH8qi`\n- **BCH:** `qqn07a58hax9l8pckq9j8ys6dsh2cnu4rsyztw2kj9`\n- **ETH:** `0xe5A8e80bAA6129DF7eBB1B5302F9e2Ef4C6f6E62`\n- **ETC:** `0x8964EcC86eaf043Bff2CdfE875E73D8095c26a58`\n\n----\n\nDedicated to Cemile Binay, in whose hands I thrived.\n\nBora M. ALPER \u003cbora@boramalper.org\u003e\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fboramalper%2Fmagnetico","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fboramalper%2Fmagnetico","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fboramalper%2Fmagnetico/lists"}