Bitmagnet
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Jun 20, 2026first mention
Oct 16, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“https://bitmagnet.io is one such self-hosted piece of software.”
“I recommend deploying the BitMagnet docker (behind a VPN with assurances it is offline if the VPN cuts out).”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Threads where it came up
- Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr 1 mention
- 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit 1 mention
- PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts 1 mention
- Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf] 1 mention
- VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate' 1 mention
Also written as bitmagnet, BitMagnet. Data: bitmagnet.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
There's also my project that also crawls the DHT and other sources. https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo
“I used to run this https://github.com/bitmagnet-io/bitmagnet”
“https://bitmagnet.io is one such self-hosted piece of software.”
“Bitmagnet -https://bitmagnet.io/ - does exactly that.”
“I recommend deploying the BitMagnet docker (behind a VPN with assurances it is offline if the VPN cuts out).”