AnyBT: An Open Sourced Decentralized BitTorrent Search Engine

Introducing AnyBT, a tool for searching magnet link of all kinds of BitTorrent contents. It's based on a decentralized data protocol - Glitter Protocol.

You could use AnyBT to search for magnet links base on file names and displays search results with a simple interface.

There is also a web version of AnyBT works on ENS and IPFS available if you do not have Python environment.

Getting Started

To get started, please follow these steps:

Prerequisites

• Python (v3.7 or higher)

Installation

Installing the tool, and you should make sure your/download/path in the $PATH, then you can use the command line tool.

pip install anybt

Options

• terms:Specifies search terms to be queried. Required:yes.

• -p <page> or --page <page>:Specifies the page of results to display. Default: 0.

• -l <limit> or --limit <limit>:Specifies the number of per page to display. Default: 10.

• -s <sort type> or --sort <sort type>:Specifies the sorting sequence of results to display. Default: none.

  • hot :sort by the file heat
  • size :sort by the size of file
  • date :sort by the original publication time of the file

• -t <filter type> or --type <fliter type>:Specifies the category of result to display. Default: all.

  • video :video categories.
  • document:document categories.
  • image :image categories.
  • music :music categories.
  • software :software categories.
  • package :package categories.

Examples

1. Search for keyword "Chaplin":

anybt  Chaplin

2. Search for keywords "Charlie Chaplin" and page 1, limit 5:

anybt  "Charlie Chaplin" -p 1 -l 5 

3. Search for keywords "Charlie Chaplin" and order by file size:

anybt  "Charlie Chaplin" -s size 

4. Search for keywords "Charlie Chaplin" and only keep the video resource:

anybt "Charlie Chaplin" -t video

Built With

• glitter-sdk-py A Python SDK for interacting with the Glitter Protocol.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to this project, feel free to fork the repository and submit a pull request with your changes.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.