torrent-dht
Academic Torrents
A platform for distributing research datasets and academic data over BitTorrent — petabytes of legitimately shared material. You can search and browse collections freely, and reads need no key or account. Reach for it when a large public dataset is easier to fetch as a torrent than from a slow or fragile institutional server.
Torrents API
Why it’s useful & how it works
The clearly-legitimate member of the torrent set (open research data). Keyless read, both ways. Safe to surface inline.
What’s inside
Petabytes of research datasets.
API access
browse/collection JSON; apiv2 (key only for uploads)
Access
Programmatic API access (a key may be required — see the API tag).
We link to this source only — we never host, fetch, or cache its content. Make sure your use is lawful where you are.