# Bitmagnet

9 Hacker News commenters recommended Bitmagnet and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 0.1 years (3 owners).

**Verdict:** Self-hosted crawler that indexes BitTorrent content into your own searchable tracker, with filters for junk. Critics note it needs a Postgres database and still returns garbage results.

## Why people recommend it

- Finds more torrents than trackers (2 comments): "you'll have more indexed content than any individual tracker" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46363813)) "which has been great for actually finding torrents" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162576))

## What people warn about

- Still returns garbage results (1 comments): "still somewhat disappointed by the garbage it reeled in" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665630))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [The Pirate Bay](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pirate-bay.md): 33 recommend
- [Rutracker](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rutracker.md): 15 recommend
- [Redacted (RED)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/redacted.md): 6 recommend
- [1337x](https://hackerapproved.com/p/1337x.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Bitmagnet", https://hackerapproved.com/p/bitmagnet/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).