How do you use BiglyBT to discover I2P torrents from different trackers? I tend to just go to postman.i2p and discover torrents there, but I want a way to discover torrents using BiglyBT and I2P. I know that BiglyBT has DHT capabilities, does that work over the I2P network to discover torrents (Perhaps through Swarm Discovery?)
Any seasoned captains out there?
Today I learned about the i2p project! Looking forward to trying this out. Sadly I have nothing to share to help answer, but thank you for raising your question
Welcome! I2p is a pretty cool project and it has way more uses than for torrenting, but i was drawn to it for that purpose when I started out.
I recommend using i2pd, a more performant and stable version, rewritten in C++, instead of the normal I2P client, which is written in Java and can sometimes have performance issues.
According to the docs there’s some kind of search functionality built into it: https://github.com/BiglySoftware/BiglyBT/wiki/MetaSearch
Off-topic: I haven’t tried i2p in years and have never used BiglyBT. Out of curiosity, what download speeds are you seeing?
is i2p even worth it anymore? I checked a while back and it seemed pretty dead. not too many people at all
It’s still very active. Postman.i2p has new content every day
Shouldn’t it technically be possible to set this up with bitmagnet? Does anyone have experience with that?
Currently not possible. Bitmagnet would need to have new code to be able to properly talk to the mainline java I2P service to enable DHT over I2P bittorrent. Or the Bitmagnet devs could develop their own I2P service to talk to the I2P network but that might be even more dev work.
https://github.com/bitmagnet-io/bitmagnet/issues/303
Per https://geti2p.net/en/docs/applications/bittorrent
DHT support requires SAM v3.3 PRIMARY and SUBSESSIONS for TCP and UDP over the same session. This will require substantial development effort on the client side, unless the client is written in Java. i2pd does not currently support SAM v3.3. libtorrent does not currently support SAM v3.3.
