BTDigg's DHT search engine links two subjects that are partial information from a torrent and a magnet link, similar to the process of linking the content of a web page with a page URL. The returned results are based on a user's text query. The web part of the BTDigg search system provides magnet links and partial torrent information (name, list of files, size) from the database.
The site has its torrent crawler's source code listed on GitHub, dhtcrawler2.īTDigg was created as a DHT search engine for free content for the BitTorrent network. The site returned later in 2016 at a dot-com domain, went offline again, and is now online. It went offline in June 2016, reportedly due to index spam. The project name was an acronym of BitTorrent Digger (in this context, digger means a treasure-hunter). The Web search supported queries in European and Asian languages. The web part of its search system retrieved proper information by a user's text query.
For end users, BTDigg provides a full-text database search via a Web interface. It participated in the BitTorrent DHT network, supporting the network and making correspondence between magnet links and a few torrent attributes (name, size, list of files) which are indexed and inserted into a database. btdigggink2pdqzqrik3blmqemsbntpzwxottujilcdjfz56jumzfsyd.onion ( Accessing link help) īTDigg is the first Mainline DHT search engine.
