Torrent indexer

I am thinking of creating a torrent indexer very similar to The Pirate Bay. One problem with torrenting and piracy that I don't see addressed is the fact that organization of torrents is very chaotic and not very efficient. I was thinking of making something that organizes torrents or supports torrent files to be named a certain way, like for example season 1 and episode 2 of better call saul would have a torrent file name of S01-E02-Better_Call_Saul.torrent (very basic example, I know) and all the indexed or uploaded torrents would follow this naming scheme and as a result the web UI could organize these files much better compared to what it is now and finding torrents would be much easier. Other information such as encoding used and some other soykaf could be also added, maybe using ffprobe or some other tools. Anyways can somebody tell me how useful this would be or if there is something like this that already exists or if there would be a better way to do this? This would be a very fun project and a chance to learn more about digital video.

Some trackers already do everything you've mentioned in your post. They are private though and are working off of very old technology, not to mention moderators with sub-95 IQs, so if you built something modern, efficient, and secure, and ran it publicly, then you'd definitely be extremely beneficial to a lot of people.

>>60945 cool, I'm not in any private trackers, do you know how they do it? do they just process what's in the file name or do they do anything else? can you tell me which trackers have this implemented?

>>60946 Private trackers force people to upload content in a very controlled manner. For example, if you could upload laptops onto the internet, and your laptop was a Thinkpad X60, you'd need to fill in every small detail about it in the manner of: >MANUFACTURER IBM/Lenovo >LINE Thinkpad >MODEL X60 >RAM 1GB DDR2 >SCREEN 1024x768 >BATTERY 6 Cell So its barely automated at all. Animebytes implements all the stuff I talked about. I wouldn't bother trying to get into PTs since the process is extremely long, 97% of the content on them can be found floating around the open internet, and you sacrifice your privacy to shady, idiotic moderators that ban people for petty reasons. They're against the spirit of piracy IMO.

>>60948 very useful. thanks a lot!

There's no point in a universal standard. Trackers and rippers follow their own "standards" and it works out well for them because people that follow a certain type of pirated media already know to use their system. A universal standard would be fairly useless and an unnecessary hassle here.

>>60948 fuarrrk I could really download a thinkpad right now.

>>60985 I don't know why you think I want to implement some universal standard. Wouldn't it be more like me implementing my own tracker "standard" like you said?

>>60948 Thanks for summing up my views on PTs. They seem very insider tradey and not worth the time investment, especially when if you piss off one mod, they share your IP and get you derezzed off of every tracker.

>>60943 What you propose is already known as scene rules[0], it's a set of guidelines specified in autistic manner similar to RFCs. Serious trackers usually follow it, and for simple stuff such as films content discovery is completely automated with IMDB reviews and posters patched into the feed. I'm really trying hard to imagine where you could have seen a recent series release not done in S01-E02 format. There is already an indexer for many torrent tracker sites called Knaben Database[1]. In addition to plain DHT search engines[2] this covers majority of all your needs, you just do a plain text search and it spits you most relevant results by number of peers. I still long for warez site structured like an app store/repository with convenient version navigation and choice between release groups for particular software. Even if each particular group has a personal site, it's usually an abhorrent impossible to navigate blogshit template. [0] - https://scenerules.org/ [1] - https://knaben.eu/ [2] - https://btdig.com/ http://btdigggink2pdqzqrik3blmqemsbntpzwxottujilcdjfz56jumzfsyd.onion/ https://github.com/btdig/dhtcrawler2 https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico https://github.com/urbanguacamole/torrent-paradise https://github.com/DEgITx/rats-search