About

DHT is a powerful technology that enables "trackerless" torrents; however, there are a number of reasons why a client may be unable to join the DHT swarm such as local or ISP blocking. This server acts as a gateway to discover clients that have announced to the DHT network, and provides a tracker-compatible interface for ease of use.

Usage

You will most likely want to add https://dht.terrible.network/fetch to the list of trackers in your torrent client.

In addition to supporting "compact" representation (?compact=1) this service also supports "json" representation (?json=1) for ease of use in code.

FAQ

So is this just a BitTorrent tracker?

No. This server does not collect/store the information necessary to act as a tracker (IP address, "port" parameter), it does not serve anything other than information queried from the DHT.

Will this announce me to the DHT?

No. This server does not collect the information necessary to do so (IP address), and it is technologically impossible to announce an IP other than one owned by the machine speaking to the DHT swarm.

Support

This service is provided for free by the author of this software, Kegan Myers, you can support him via Patreon.

Open Source

The source that runs this service is available on my gitea server and is open source under an MIT license.

Legal

• This service is provided as-is on a best-effort basis. No warranty is or shall be issued for the use of or reliance upon this service.
• This service respects your privacy, no identifying information is collected, shared, or stored.
• Access to this service may be revoked at any time for any reason without warning.
• Piracy is illegal. The end user of this service bears all responsibility for what is done with the data returned by this service.
• This service does not host any content, it is a gateway that finds peers in the distributed hash table and serves a list of them.