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Dev tools · January 28, 2017

Magnetissimo – Self-hosted torrent search engine written in Elixir

Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database. - sergiotapia/magnetissimo

Magnetissimo – Self-hosted torrent search engine written in Elixir launched on January 28, 2017 with 403 votes, #34 of 3,670 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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In plain words

Magnetissimo is a self-hosted torrent search engine built with Elixir. It allows developers and power users to run their own private torrent search infrastructure rather than relying on public search websites. The tool indexes torrent metadata and enables searching across stored torrents locally. As a self-hosted solution, it gives users control over their search data and indexing while avoiding external dependencies.

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