BTDigg
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Type of site | BitTorrent DHT search engine, magnet links provider |
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| Available in | Multilingual, primarily English |
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| Registration | Not required |
| Launched | January 2011 |
| Current status | Online |
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BTDigg is the first
index spam.[6] The site returned later in 2016 at a dot-com domain, went offline again, and is now online.[7][citation needed] The btdig.com site has its torrent crawler's source code listed on GitHub, dhtcrawler2
.
Features
BTDigg was created as a DHT search engine for
API for third-party applications.[2]
BTDigg Web interface supports English, Russian, Chinese, Portuguese languages. Users can customize search results by choosing proper sort order in the web interface. Additional features are search
API
popularity gives a picture of changing popularity for a torrent in the BitTorrent DHT network.
History of BTDigg
BTDigg was founded by Nina Evseenko in January 2011. The site is also available via the
Tor. In March–April 2011, several new features were introduced, among them web plugin to search with one click, qBittorrent plugin, showing torrent info-hash as QR code picture, torrent fakes and duplicates detection, and charts of the popular torrents in soft real-time. In 2012, the website started to support SSL connections.[citation needed
]
Advantages and disadvantages
BTDigg provides decentralization of torrent index database creation, and the ability to show distributed ratings provided by users via
References
- ^ BTDigg [@btdigg] (19 February 2015). "We have only two official mirrors of http://t.co/QVBbcAxzpz : http://btdigg.i2p (I2P) and http://t.co/MVMTk9mMre (TOR). Others are not ours" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 9 September 2022. Retrieved 1 December 2022 – via Twitter.
- ^ a b Ernesto (23 February 2011). "BTDigg, The First Trackerless Torrent Search Engine". Torrent Freak. Archived from the original on 2 January 2023. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
- ^ Anthony, Sebastian (24 February 2011). "BTDigg, The First DHT Trackerless Decentralized Torrent Search Engine". Download Squad. Archived from the original on 27 July 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
- ^ "BTDigg: A Trackerless Torrent Search Engine". Make Use of. 27 February 2011. Archived from the original on 14 August 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
- ^ "About". BTDigg. Archived from the original on 27 May 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
- ^ "BTDigg Shut Down Due to Torrent Spam, For Now - TorrentFreak". TorrentFreak. 11 July 2016. Archived from the original on 23 October 2016. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
- ^ "BTDigg Shut Down Due to Torrent Spam, For Now * TorrentFreak". Archived from the original on 23 October 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
- ^ Ernesto (29 March 2012). "BTDigg Adds uTorrent Ratings To Search Results". Torrent Freak. Archived from the original on 19 June 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
- ^ "About BTDig". Archived from the original on 31 January 2023. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
- ^ "BTDigg: App Reviews, Features, Pricing & Download". AlternativeTo. Archived from the original on 27 September 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
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