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Products that do what Magnetar, a high-perf BitTorrent parsing and manipulation library does

It provides zero-dependency, memory-safe operations for working with torrent files, bencode data, and magnet links.

1. 1MS
   Magnetico – self-hosted BitTorrent DHT search engine suite▲95

   2017 · github.com

2. 2SB
   Simple BitTorrent Magnet Link search▲57

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3. 3BB
   Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8▲254

   2017 · github.com

4. 4SA
   Synapse, a full featured BitTorrent client in Rust▲195

   2018 · github.com

5. 5TD
   TorrentPeek – Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite▲184

   2017 · github.com

6. 6TL
   Torrentinim – low memory-footprint, API-only torrent search engine▲117

   2021 · github.com

7. 7IW
   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…

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8. 8ES
   Exatorrent – Self-hostable Torrent client written in Go▲179

   2021 · github.com

9. 9PA
   PicoTorrent, a tiny BitTorrent client for Windows▲58

   2015 · picotorrent.org

10. 10HA
    Hadouken – a cross-platform, extensible BitTorrent daemon▲12

    2015 · github.com

11. 11BA
    Beaker – A browser for IPFS and Dat▲160

    2016 · pfrazee.github.io

12. 12LA
    Lego – A Let's Encrypt Library and CLI in Go▲93

    2015 · github.com

13. 13TA
    Torrenthistory – an open and legal torrent indexer▲23

    2021 · torrenthistory.org

14. 14RA
    Rivulet – a music player for torrents▲28

    2015 · rivulet.audio

15. 15ZP
    Zif, peer-to-peer torrent indexing in Go▲9

    2017 · github.com

16. 16BR
    bash.rocks – A bash interpreter in the browser▲58

    2017 · bash.rocks

17. 17AS
    Arc – secure file archiver▲72

    2016 · github.com

18. 18IM
    I Made a Decentralized Web Browser Built Built on BitTorrent Sync▲59

    2014 · jack.minardi.org

19. 19
    Btapp.js▲56

    BitTorrent's Torque powered javascript library

    2014

20. 20XF
    XFiles – FOSS File Manager and Archiver with Root Support for Android▲57

    2019 · github.com

21. 21CO
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    2017 · github.com

22. 22
    Magnetar ▲2

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23. 23TP
    TorrentNet – Peer-To-Peer Sites Using BitTorrent and SQLite▲5

    2017 · medium.com

24. 24A
    AnonTorrent▲50

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