torrent-dht
BTDigg (btdig.com)
A torrent search engine that crawls the BitTorrent DHT itself, indexing hundreds of millions of torrents and returning magnet links only. It is a plain HTML site with no API, promoted primarily as a Tor service. Good for finding content that is still seeded but listed on no conventional torrent index. Degraded: its clearnet address is flaky, so expect intermittent availability, and as ever with torrents, results are links only.
No programmatic check, opens the archive’s own search.
Why it’s useful & how it works
BTDigg takes a fundamentally different approach from conventional torrent indexes: instead of relying on uploads from users, it crawls the BitTorrent DHT network directly, discovering torrents that peers are actively sharing at that moment. This makes it useful for finding content that exists on the network but has never been listed on a public index site. The clearnet address at btdig.com is intermittently accessible; the service was designed primarily for use over Tor. Echo links you through to the site, where you can search by keyword or paste an info-hash.
What’s inside
BTDigg indexes content discovered live from the DHT network rather than maintaining a traditional database of submitted torrents, so coverage reflects what is actively circulating on the network at any given time. Exact counts are not publicly disclosed.
What we measured
Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.
Reachability
- Direct request
- Responded HTTP 200 406 ms
- Through a datacenter proxy
- Responded HTTP 200 1.1 s
Reachability measured 2026-08-22.
Access
May be geo- or IP-blocked from some networks.
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