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I'm looking to find out which torrent search engines you consider the best, especially those with advanced search features. By advanced search, I mean something like this.

To make this easy to tally up, please post your favorite as a comment below. Upvote the ones you also use. I'd love to see which torrent search engines this community relies on the most!

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Prowlarr and all my accounrs on trackers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This. Sometimes I'll go to an actual torrent site for shits & grins but why go search on 1 site when I can search 50+ at once?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly my thinking.
Every once I will visit my fav tracker just to break out of my bubble.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why do I need to install this? Why can't I just search online somewhere?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's mainly used for automation within arr setups

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't use public search engines for private trackers.
You can use public trackers in prowlarr and jackett

Pretty big plus for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mean you can use private trackers in prowlarr and jackett? Just to clarify, since you wrote "public".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes. Both.
There is only a selection of public trackers but the popular ones like 1337x, TPB, (formerly) Rarbg, etc. are there.
Really depends on what you need.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Prowlarr allows you to add as many trackers as you want. It supports torrent and Usenet sites, public or private.

You can give it a single search query and it'll search all viable sources simultaneously and return a compiled list of everything it finds.

You can also direct it to your arr programs like Sonarr and Radarr. Prowlarr will add its indexers to your other apps so they can utilize its search capabilities.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you know a way to incorporate private trackers into search engines?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally the thing they said. Prowlarr.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes sense, sorry for the stupid question. Never used and *arr application before :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No worries, welcome to the high seas.

Pick up your membership card!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Depending on the trackers no other solution can even come close

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm a simple man, I just search directly in qbittorrent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Agreed, I have my jackett daemon wired up to qbittorrent and all is good!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I love qbittorent. I love that it's in the Linux repo too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Snowfl suits my needs 99% of the time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Wow! Thanks mate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i agree, but the website is annoying to use imo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Been using it for years, but i do agree it kinda sucks, and the giant cypto ad on the first screen is annoying. It is very easy to use, you can filter by top of day, week, etc and has a good search capability. I used to prefer btdb until that one got shut down, haven't found a better site since.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

BTDigg DHT Search Engine

BitTorrent DHT search engine which analyses the DHT network in real-time and provides full-text search over active torrents.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

1337x.to my fav since long time now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, 1337x isn't a known unsafe site since a cryptominer infected version of Baldur's Gate 3 was uploaded with admins removing negative comments about the miner^[https://lemmy.world/post/2733648]. Go ahead and use it for media, but be diligent about any software^[To be clear, you should be diligent with all software downloads online, including authentic software purchases which may be intercepted through various means to distribute to you malware. In the case of 1337x, as the admins there are part of the malware distribution however, due diligence is especially necessary.]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I red the malware situation with games, yes, and actually I use that source for media only

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's 1337x.to ! There are many fake sites...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

WTF I must have been drunk, fixed

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Generally Jackett filters + eyeballs. Searching many engines beats any individual.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jackett 😁 no seriously, Jackett

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The one and only

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

+1 to those who said DHT.

There's no tagging support, but I'm not sure why I'd need tagging.
DHT crawling reveals pretty much every active public torrent, & finding what I want is just a matter of including it in the search terms.

"s04e10 2160p x265" brings up every torrent containing a file with s04e10, 2160p, & x265 in its filename.

I could foresee plenty of situations where tagging for quality & for metadata beyond filenames & sizes; I just haven't actually had it come up.

Everything I need shows up on DHT search.

Well, except .STL files, but that seems to be because they're given away for free so often there's no impetus to make torrents of them?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

1337x.to 95% of the time, it has what I'm looking for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't rate it as a favorite at all, but I tend to use torrentz2.nz

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

torrents-csv

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The one on fmhy.net