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How i can add tracker from url like from github?

by Guest on 2024/01/11 06:05:33 PM    
i want add tracker from github like that
https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist
it will have url with .txt in the end url
by Guest on 2024/01/12 07:07:26 PM    
Settings > Trackers > edit Tracker presets > Add
Edit the tracker list here.
Then in he Transfers view Right click on the torrent > Trackers > Presets > select the preset.

After that you only need to edit the preset, and all the torrents will get the new tracker list applied immediately.
To check what torrent has what preset applied to it, you can enable the Trackers column in the transfer view. The preset name will show up there.

Auto-updating tracker list is not possible at the moment. And I wouldn't really recommend adding all the trackers blindly from mentioned list.
by Guest on 2024/01/14 04:54:08 AM    
And I wouldn't really recommend adding all the trackers blindly from mentioned list.
Why? How can more trackers hurt if you have torrents in desperate need of seeds? Genuinely curious...
by Guest on 2024/01/23 12:29:23 AM    
To Guest on 2024/01/14:

1) You misunderstood my statement.
And I wouldn't really recommend adding all the trackers blindly from mentioned list.
In this sentence, the emphasis was on the blindly part. Some of the trackers were short-lived and got domain squatted, some are created by people who are just about collecting your download list (for whatever reason). My public torrenting history may be public, but that doesn't mean I want to actively give it to you.


2) I have an answer to your question too.
How can more trackers hurt if you have torrents in desperate need of seeds?
The main reason is that you are only adding trackers, not peers. I've noticed that adding any udp/http tracker beyond opentrackr, openbittorrent is redundant. I didn't find many public torrent sites that do not add one of these or their own tracker automatically. You won't really get more peers unless these two go down or you add from the https list. These stats can pretty much confirm me: the seeders count peaks ~250 Million on opentrackr and ~4.5 Million on gbitt The majority of these seeders announce to both. Also, do you know anyone not using the same list as you? Can you mention an other tracker list besides ngosang's which contains different trackers? :)

In my opinion anything beyond 6 actively used trackers is needlessly redundant. That means 6 tracker tiers. Ngosang's lists are formatted with empty lines between the trackers, so all of them are different tiers.

Ok, but you still didn't answer how adding 14-60 or more trackers can hurt.
It starts to hurt when you have many torrents. Also, there is an alternative: you can effectively add thousands, millions of trackers automatically by turning on DHT. :)
by Guest on 2025/05/09 02:31:46 AM    
The point of using a list such as https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ngosang/trackerslist/refs/heads/master/trackers_best_ip.txt

is exactly that it checks for the best options and removes trackers that don't work anymore, so no squatting issues. Using the latest IPs also bypasses hostname-based blocks.

If you only download recent and popular things, maybe the "top 2 trackers" are enough for you, but this trackers_best_ip.txt list always helps me with seeders for rare old movies.

I'd be nice if Tixati was able to download the latest list and apply it automatically.
by Guest on 2025/05/09 10:32:40 PM    
If you can't find those peers with DHT, either you or those peers do something wrong. Have you disabled DHT? Why?

Those tracker list updates are pointless fiddling that doesn't make any difference for almost all users in almost all cases. The trackers are only necessary for totally firewalled users with blocked UDP, which is a very uncommon situation in which you might not expect bittorrent to work at all (or only until company admins reprimand you for doing that). Some people who are too poor to lease VPS/VPN/seedbox try to torrent through Tor, and find themselves in that situation... may they rest in peace.

Sure, you can add some public trackers to your torrents in order to provide backups in a slight chance that someone needs to find peers that way, but in general you should understand that it does nothing for you.

Well, maybe you download tens of thousands of torrents per day automatically, and have no time for initial DHT lookups, but then your ISP managers watching it are likely getting very red faces.




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