If you're sad RARBG closed, give the qbitorrent search a try.
If you're sad RARBG closed, give the qbitorrent search a try.
I searched for ages for a replacement of something like torrentz, and the rarbg drop made me start the search again. I ended up trying the included search in qbittorrent, and I'm very happy with the results, it scans many public trackers, and I have always found what I wanted.
To be clear, qbittorrent is a desktop app for linux/windows/mac, that has a panel where you can search for torrents:
Using radarr/sonarr/jackett/transmission for a lil over a year now and forgot about searching for torrents like this already. Oh the pain.
the hunt is half the fun for me lol also maintaining a min 2.0 ratio in private trackers is like a game
I do love jackett as a search engine tho!
This might make me sound like some kind of snob, but I wish Sonarr had the option to select 4k+HDR. It's quite a noticeable difference if you are using HDR displays. There are a number of NF shows that get released in 1080p-HDR as well.
You can always make a custom quality. I can't display HDR so I have to specifically exclude anything with HDR in it and did that via custom quality settings.
For me the loss of RARBG was more about the site's quality and interface. Torrents aren't hard to find but consistent quality and selection are (outside of a lot of private trackers). I liked that they displayed popular movies at the top so that I can keep up with what's currently in vogue for my users (since i dont really see any ads anymore) without going through the extra effort of manually googling what new movies are coming out every few weeks.
something like torrentz
I feel like I'm the only person who used/remembers that site lol. I'll definitely have to check out qbittorrent now.
also I was just informed about https://therarbg.com/
Woah is that legit?
the old rarbg team are gone. they stopped doing it. so this is a spiritual successor apparently. similar to how yts.mx aren't the real guys but are doing the same thing.
There's a github repo with all the magnet links, I'm assuming that site used them?
Exactly once the plugins installed, it is also the best way I have found to look for torrents. The Best feature is that it will put the Higher sources of the Search, Cross site on top.
Any guide on how to install the plugin?
in the search page of qbittorrent (view > search engine, if not visible. it should be a tab/button just below the top toolbar next to 'transfers'), in the bottom right corner should be a "search plugins..." button. clicking "check for updates" autopopulated several for me, otherwise click "install a new one" after manually downloading any from this page
seconded. i use qbittorrent search now almost exclusively for my torrent searches. no more jumping from site to site searching for what's out there. of course, it's not definitive, but it's pretty good.
Wow, I didn't know this was a thing. It works really well.
A bit off topic, but are there any good blocklists for qbittorrent?
The Blocklist I use for Transmission doesn't work for qbittorrent or I would have switched already.
I have never used a blocklist, is it supposed to filter out virus and stuff like that? Or does it filter out porn/nsfw?
Ideally it's supposed to filter possible sources of malware and some people believe it makes them less likely to be caught torrenting
I've found that the block lists on the net tend to contain extremely outdated information and blocks a lot of legitimate activity, while ultimately being ineffective at actually blocking copyright trolls sufficiently. Best to have a vpn to prevent that. Since I have a vpn, I don't care who downloads from me so long as they aren't abusing my resources. So I manually create a blocklist for IP blocks I've observed malicious activity from. The blocklist file syntax is a note and an IP or IP range (not cidr notation) on each line, separated by a colon. for example, to block 195.154.0.0/16:
Poneytelecom:195.154.0.0-195.154.255.255(That's an IP range I actually block, belonging to poneytelecom, a very low reputation hosting provider I was getting some weird denial of service looking activity, like 40+ simultaneous connections who wouldn't actually download anything)
Also, if you download torrents popular in China you may come across the Xunlei client, which always reports its progress as 0% and never seeds. Banning these would be impractical game of whack a mole. So instead, simply enable super seeding mode on those torrents. Gone instantly. Might be slower at seeding, but at least now you can seed to legitimate users.
I too have a lot of there chinese torrents with 0% progress. They all use the same client (probably spoofed). Qbit sadly doesn't have a filter by client, so I'll try the superseeding mode on those.
Thank you for this tip. I've been using Transmission, but just installed qbittorrent.
I agree that the search function in Qbittorrent is actually pretty good.
This coming from someone who used to use Waffles and Demonoid all the time. I still use rutracker some, but they don't have nearly as much as the Qbittorrent search.
I also recently got into Soulseek and it's pretty good as well.
Soulseek is one of my favorite applications. The old GUI makes me feel like I'm sailing the high seas of my youth. I was unaware if it offered anything other than music.
Soulseek is my last resources for music, people have EVERYTHING there.
a replacement of something like torrentz
It's missing the operators but not the rarities.
Jackett is far superior. Running jackett through qbit search is even better. https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/How-to-configure-Jackett-plugin
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