magnetico

magnetico crawls the BitTorrent DHT (Distributed Hash Table) without trackers or torrent files, building a local database of info hashes and metadata.

Source

• DevinNorgarb/magnetico (fork)
• Upstream: boramalper/magnetico · magnetico.org

How it works

1. Join the mainline DHT as a node
2. Discover info hashes from announce_peer / get_peers traffic
3. Fetch metadata via BEP 9 (ut_metadata) when peers are available
4. Store names, file lists, and sizes in SQLite for search

Components

Binary	Role
magneticod	Crawler daemon
magneticow	Web UI for searching the index

Quick start

# Build (Go)
go install github.com/boramalper/magnetico@latest

magneticod   # runs crawler
magneticow   # web interface (default :8080)

See the README for Docker, systemd, and resource tuning (crawling is network- and disk-intensive).

Use cases

• Research on DHT topology and metadata availability
• Private search index (not a replacement for public indexers)
• Understanding how magnets propagate without central trackers

Related

• Torrents and DHT Network