Rats on The Boat - BitTorrent search engine
BitTorrent search program for desktop and web. Collect and navigate over base of torrents statistic, categories, and give easy access to it. Work over p2p network and support Windows, Linux, Mac OS platforms.
Features:
- Works over p2p torrent network, doesn’t require any trackers
- Supports own p2p protocol for additional data transfer (like search between rats clients, descriptions/votes transfer, etc.)
- Search over torrent collection
- Torrent and files search
- Search filters (size ranges, files, seeders etc…)
- Collection filters (regex filters, adult filters)
- Trackers peers scan supported
- Integrated torrent client
- Collect only statistic information and don’t save any torrents internal data
- Supports torrents rating (voting)
- P2P Search protocol. Search in other Rats clients.
- Web version (web interface) for servers
- Top list (mostly common and popular torrents)
- Feed list (Rats clients activity feed)
- Translations: English, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese
- Drag and drop torrents (expand local search database with specific torrents)
- Descriptions association from trackers
- Torrent generation and automatic adding to search DB
- WebSockets & REST API for server/search engine. You can made search request and create your own UI client.
Architecture:
Usage Manuals:
Download Desktop client:
By default we recomended using desktop version of application. Download and install most recent one for Windows, MacOS, Linux.
Is this like a local DHT crawler? The project page is a bit vague on that front, and the architecture diagram is… not very helpful.
Seems so. It looks like a DHT crawler with additional protocols for exchanging magnets with other identical clients, bypassing the need to crawl for it.
Personally I run magnetico which works well (I don’t need an integrated client) but given how DHT crawling hits your local network I’d say the P2P sharing of magnets is a good idea, at worst it’s net neutral. Depending on how regulated the protocol is though, it’s quite possible that it can be abused in order to boost infected torrents.