Torrentinim

Torrentinim is a self-hosted API-only, low memory footprint, torrent search engine and crawler.

Native support for Linux, Mac and Windows. You can find a release for your platform in our releases.

Community

Want to talk about Torrentinim or suggest features? We have an official Discord server.

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Goals

• API-only
• Native support for: Linux, Mac and Windows.
• Crawl multiple index sites for torrents and magnet links.
• [TODO] Easily integrates with both Sonarr and Radarr.
• Run without ceremony. You download a binary, run it, that's it. Really.
• Easy to understand source code. Special care is taken to keep code lean and understandable. No code golf here.
• High performance, extremely low memory footprint.
  • RAM usage (avg.): 24MB
  • Binary application size: 700KB

We work closely with other providers and search engines to be respectful of their hardware and minimize our impact to their systems. Want torrentinim to support your site? Please open a Github Issue in this repo.

Usage Guide

Torrentinim was designed to be painless to run. You download an executable, and run it. Done. It will start slurping up data from supported sources automatically.

The NUKE_MY_DATABASE environment variable initializes the database. All subsequent runs should not include NUKE_MY_DATABASE or you will nuke your entire database.

$ NUKE_MY_DATABASE=true ./torrentinim
[system] Database nuke requested. Clearing all database tables and data.
[system] Initializing database
Torrentinim is running, bambino. http://localhost:50123

Subsequent runs, don't use the NUKE_MY_DATABASE flag!

$ ./torrentinim
Torrentinim is running, bambino. http://localhost:50123

Environment variables:

• TORRENTINIM_PORT - what port the app will run on.
• ALLOW_ORIGINS - CORS allowed origins.

Example:

TORRENTINIM_PORT=60000 ALLOW_ORIGINS="https://example.com" ./torrentinim

Use the search JSON endpoint to perform searches against all the scraped torrents you have saved locally.

http://localhost:50123/search?query=the other guys&page=1

Development

You need at least Nim 1.2.0

1. Clone the project
2. asdf install (to install the version of Nim in .tool-versions)
3. make deps
4. make run

To compile release:

1. make build

Github Releases

1. Update torrentinim.nimble package version with the tag version.

version       = "0.4.0"
git tag v0.4.0

1. Push up your tags

git push origin --tags

Supported websites

The following websites are fully supported.

• eztv
• 1337x
• nyaa
• rarbg
• torrentdownloads.me
• yts

These websites were supported but they have gone down.

• thepiratebay

Thank you's:

• @chhdamian for the Torrentinim logo
• @scroot
• @srozb
• @anacrolix
• The Nim discord server and the people who volunteer their time.