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24 alternatives to DarkTorrentSearcher

search torrents files without worry about third-party links

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. DarkTorrentSearcher launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1PF
   Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine▲1,183

   2017 · skytorrents.in · its alternatives →

2. 2MI
   movies.io — torrent search like it should be▲550

   2012 · movies.io · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Sky torrents▲436

   Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine

   2017 · its alternatives →

4. 4TL
   Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine▲117

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

5. 5IW
   I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir▲394

   Hello everyone! I'm currently in a journey to learn and improve my Elixir and Go skills (my daily job uses C++) and looking through my backlog for projects to take on I decided Elixir is the perfect language to write a highly-parallel BitTorrent tracker. So I have spent my free time these last 3 months writing one! Now I think it has enough features to present it to the world (and a docker image to give it a quick try). I know some people see trackers as relics of the past now that DHT and PEX are common but I think they still serve a purpose in today's Internet (purely talking about public…

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Tribler▲96

   Search and download torrents without worries or censorship

   2014 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   WebTorrent Desktop▲289

   Stream torrents

   2016 · its alternatives →

8. 8TD
   TorrentPeek – Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite▲184

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9ES
   Exatorrent – Self-hostable Torrent client written in Go▲179

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

10. 10SB
    Simple BitTorrent Magnet Link search▲57

    2012 · moviemagnet.net · its alternatives →

11. 11MS
    Magnetico – self-hosted BitTorrent DHT search engine suite▲95

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12SF
    Super fast BitTorrent DHT index – ralyodio/dht_indexer▲26

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Crawler.sh▲352

    Free Local AEO & SEO Spider and a Markdown content extractor

    Mar 2026 · crawler.sh · its alternatives →

14. 14TA
    Torrenthistory – an open and legal torrent indexer▲23

    2021 · torrenthistory.org · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Presearch - A Better Search Engine▲93

    Support decentralized search by becoming a node operator.

    2021 · its alternatives →

16. 16HA
    hTorrent – A HTTP to BitTorrent gateway with seeking written in Go▲46

    Hey HN! I just released hTorrent, a gateway that allows for retrieving torrents through a plain HTTP interface. It supports seeking, which means that it can be used to stream media directly using e.g. MPV without having to wait for the download to complete. I'd love to get your feedback :)

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

17. 17AS
    A search engine for your personal network of high-quality websites▲266

    Hey all, Last time when we were on HackerNews [1], we received a lot of feedback, and we incorporated most of it. - We have changed our name from grep.help to usegrasp.com - A privacy policy page - Bulk import - Pricing page We are happy to introduce a new feature: a personalized answer search engine that provides direct citations to the content on the page. Demo: https://usegrasp.com/search?q=is+starship+fully+reusable%3F 1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510949

    2023 · usegrasp.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    The Pirate Bay▲212

    The original never dying torrent pirate browser is back

    2015 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Suku Directory▲115

    We're here to protect your search privacy

    2023 · its alternatives →

20. 20DR
    DontBeEvil.rip: Search, for developers (API, expressions, CLI)▲269

    I'd like to invite everyone to try out DontBeEvil.rip, an experimental search engine for developers. tl;dr $ alias rip="curl -G -H 'Accept: text/plain' --url https://dontbeevil.rip/search --data-urlencode " $ rip 'q=Heartbleed bug' DontBeEvil.rip is a year long experiment to see if a small team can build a developer-focused search engine that is self-sustaining on $10 monthly subscriptions. It works by only indexing high-quality resources that are relevant to developers. You won't get useless listicles because we'll never crawl them. Relevant urls are harvested from HN,…

    2022 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Code Finder▲255

    The ultimate search engine for GitHub repositories

    2024 · its alternatives →

22. 22AT
    A torrent search engine to search various public indexes▲8

    2017 · snowfl.com · its alternatives →

23. 23AB
    A blocklist to remove spam and bad websites from search results▲225

    Hi HN! I've been fed up with search results so much that I decided to make a giant blocklist to remove garbage links by using uBlacklist. I browsed other blocklists and wasn't very satisfied from what exists now; the goal of this one is to be super organized and transparent, explaining why each site was blocked via issues. Contributions welcome! Even though around 100 domains are blocked so far, I already noticed a big improvement in casual searches. You'd be surprised how some AI generated websites can dominate the #1 page on DuckDuckGo.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Haystack▲112

    The fastest and most secure way to search all your work

    2019 · its alternatives →

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