Some 20 days ago BTDigg went down and 2 days later the Tor website also went down.
There are alternatives, but most are riddled by ads and other nefarious things.
Strike Search was awesome for how long it lasted. (Source code is here, so could even run for each SickRage instance, but probably besides the scope. Imagine the speed of searches.)
The alternatives seem to be: (In no particular order, purposefully did not include links)
- BTKitty (really bad with ads, only visit with adblock and noscript)
- Kikibt (same, lots of ads and other nasty shit, use noscript and adblock)
- TorrentProject (8.5 mil torrents they claim, seem to do DHT indexing too)
- FastBot (They also say they index DHT)
- BTDB (Seems like the best candidate, claims 62 mil torrents, only a couple of image ads on the results page)
Do you guys have any alternative in mind, if yes, which one is your favourite. I quite like the idea of running Strike locally, but I’m maybe a bit adventurous. It would need a DHT scraper though. The intellectual property for a different but similar project was claimed by the music industry in a lawsuit it seems, that might be why the scrapers were not released.)
BTDB seems easy enough to parse (plain HTML), it even provides a list of all included files.
Torrentz https://torrentz.eu/
ExtraTorrent https://extratorrent.cc/
BitSnoop https://bitsnoop.com/
Site comparison[edit]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_sites
The following table compares the features of some of the most popular BitTorrent websites; it is not comprehensive with regard to listing all of the popular BitTorrent trackers, especially private trackers.[2] The Alexa global ranking is accurate as of January 21, 2016.
| Site | Specialization | Is a tracker | Directory | Public | RSS | One-click download | Sortable | Comments | Multi-tracker index | DHTsearch engine | IgnoresDMCA | Tor friendly | Alexa Traffic Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torrentz | Search engine | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No[3] | No | 298[4] |
| ExtraTorrent[5] | None | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | VIP only | Yes | No | Yes | No[6] | No | 311[7] |
| The Pirate Bay | None | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | 368[8] |
| Rutracker | None | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes[9] | 427[10] |
| Nyaa Torrents | Anime | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | 494[11] | ||
| 1337x[13] | None | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No[14] | No | 1,195[15] |
| Torrenthound[16] | None | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | 2,374[17] |
| IPTorrents[18] | None | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | 3,307[19] |
| isoHunt | None | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No[6] | No | 3,325[20] |
| YourBittorrent | None | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No[23] | No | 4,290[24] |
| BitSnoop[21] | None | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No[6] | No | 4,294[22] |
| TorrentProject[25] | Search engine | No | Yes[26] | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No[27] | 4,718 [28] | |
| Torlock[30] | Verified torrents | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No[31] | 9,221[32] | |
| TorrentLeech[33] | Scene releases | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | 9,526[34] | |
| Rarbg | None | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | 976[12] |
| Demonoid | None | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No[35] | Yes | 10,047[36] |
| Empornium | Pornography | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | 10,145[37] |
| SevenTorrents[38] | Movies | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | 16,226[39] | |
| What.CD | Music | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | 12,783[40] |
| broadcasthe[42] | Television shows | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | 13,395[43] |
| BTDigg | DHT search engine | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | 13,420[41] |
| MovieMagnet[58] | Movies | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | 146,730[59] | |
| RevolutionTT[44] | None | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | 21,901[45] |
| Mininova | Legally redistributable media | No | Yes | Yes | Yes[46] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | 23,485[47] | |
| HDBits[48] | Movies | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | 23,573[49] |
| SceneAccess[50] | Scene releases | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | 27,786[51] |
| waffles.fm[52] | Music | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | 41,953[53] |
| AnimeSuki | Anime & otakusubculture[54] | No | Yes[55] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | 45,061[56] | ||
| T411 | None | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | 5,735[29] | ||
| etree | Live Concerts | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | 109,728[57] | ||
| OpenBitTorrent | None | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | 424,489[60] | ||
| Site | Specialization | Is a tracker | Directory | Public | RSS | One click download | Sortable | Comments | Multi-tracker index | DHT search | Ignores DMCA | Tor friendly | Alexa Traffic Rank |