RARBG shutting down left a huge hole for me and I can’t figure out what’s a good alternative for it other than 1337. Any suggestions?

    • lessthanthree@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 years ago

      I took the time after RARBG to setup my torrenting flow. TorrentGalaxy and 1337 have been great especially combining them with Prowlarr and Radarr.

      • HerculeanTardigrade@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        Is there a public tracker where scene releases of video games are not uploaded by IGG?

        TGX abd 1337x both has scene releases uploaded by IGG. I can’t seem to find non-IGG ones.

      • player2@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 years ago

        Here is the official tutorial: https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/Install-search-plugins#steps-to-install-search-plugins-qbittorrent-version-3110-or-more-recent

        In qBitorrent go to Search Plugins in the bottom right, then Install a New One. You’ll go to that website link I posted and find a torrent site that has lots of content you like, like 1337, and click the little download icon off to the right of it in that table. That will open a tab with some computer code looking stuff. Copy this URL of the website and in qBittorent, in the Install a New One window, select web link and paste the link to the search engine plugin you chose. I did this for the top 10 or so most relevant looking websites for me in terms of language, content type, etc.

        Now when I need a torrent I just go to my search plugin section of the program and type in the search terms I would normally use on Rarbg, and I find the movie I’m looking for.

        Here is a YouTube video I found talking about the process:
        https://youtu.be/nksLKqotTys

  • –Phase–@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    32·
    2 years ago

    Since no one has posted it yet, this site hosts a massive dump of every RARBG release ever, and you can easily search through it. Games, movies, shows, books, everything RARBG ever released is available there. There’s 5 and half petabytes of data there, it’s absurdly large.

  • finestnothing@lemmy.world
    7·
    2 years ago

    Because I’ll shamelessly throw this on every related post: I highly recommend looking into the *arr apps. There’s Radarr for movies, sonarr for TV, readarr for books, lidarr for music, and some other smaller ones for stuff like subtitles, nsfw, comics, anime, etc. You basically setup indexer sites to search, connect them to your download client(s), add whatever you want to get, and they take care of the rest. You can even use an app called prowlarr to make a single list of the indexers and sync that list across all of your apps so it’s super easy to add more.

    Personally I have 1337x, piratebay, and internetarchive tied for highest torrent indexer priority and they get most of what I want, but I also have badasstorrents, bitsearch, eztv, kickasstorrents, torlock, torrentgalaxy, and yourbittorrent that will get searched if those three don’t have it. You can even use prowlarr to search all of your indexers for a file if you really want, but the only case for that that I’ve seen is for very niche things or things with messed up titles in the other arr apps (series scene 1 instead of the actual title is the main example, but I’ve only run across that once)

    Want to go balls to the wall with your piracy, I highly recommend looking into usenet! It’s basically like torrenting, but with a handful of massive servers that store stuff. You need to pay for an indexer which basically keeps a list of all the stuff it’s found to be uploaded on the usenet servers (I use nzbgeek since it was recommended by a friend and I have no complaints, but you’re free to find another one) so it’s not entirely free, but I get ~95% of my stuff through usenet instead of torrenting. I have it listed at a higher priority than my torrent clients since it’s a lot more reliable and safe, plus you can basically max out your bandwidth instead of fucking around with slow or stalled torrents which made the cost (I got lifetime) entirely worth it to me.

    The best part of the arr apps? You can add and use both usenet (called nzb) indexers and torrent indexers/sites! Anything that isn’t found on usenet (not found, worse or higher quality than I want, missing tags, etc) is basically always found on one of the torrent sites I have added in.

    Another huge benefit, you can also add things that have been announced but not released yet, and it will grab it for you when it’s released. Want something asap? Set it to “announced” and it may find some leaked copy of the movie when it’s available on one of your indexers. “In cinemas” is normally what I go for, then set it to webdl, Blu-ray, webrip etc to avoid cams. You can also do released to wait until it’s fully released. And you aren’t stuck with the version you have initially, the apps will automatically grab you better quality versions until it’s at the desired quality (e.g. you get a crappy 480p leaked version because you allowed it, when a 720p version is released it will grab and replace it for you). A concrete example is I have the latest season of Futurama, sonarr (handles TV shows) will grab the first episode that’s releasing tonight and it’ll be downloaded overnight most likely.

    • rosa666parks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      2 years ago

      Just got my Usenet setup with Radarr and Sonar and I am LOVING it. It’s fast and so easy to use. Hardest part was getting all of the folders situated with my existing library. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

      • finestnothing@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        I definitely recommend adding some torrent indexers too (and using prowlarr to manage all of your indexers) if you aren’t already! Also, don’t forget to stick your download clients behind a VPN! If you’re running them all from docker (highly recommend doing this), you can route all through a gluetun container to help protect yourself from being tracked

    • lemming007@lemmy.world
      0·
      2 years ago

      *arr apps still need a tracker. *Arr by itself is useless without working torrent trackers which are becoming fewer and fewer, unless you’re willing to play the private tracker games.

        • finestnothing@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          Plus, you can setup multiple and it will search them all for you. I have mine skip anything with fewer than 10 seeders and I basically never get stalled torrents now. If I do, I just add that release to the blocklist and try again

  • zShxck@lemmy.ml
    72·
    2 years ago

    If you want i have been seeding the RARGB archive since they decided to shut it down.

  • kernelPanic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    For games rutor.info is very up todaye. It is in Russian but name of torrents are in English. Also it doesn’t use https so always connect to it using Tor browser

  • IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    Here are the sites I use with Jackett
    btdig.com
    bitsearch.to
    eztv.re
    glodls.to
    kickasstorrents.to
    limetorrents.lol
    torrentz2.nz
    2torrentz2eu.in
    torrentdownloads.pro
    torrentdownload.info
    torrentgalaxy.to
    showrss.info
    nyaa.si

    Even better if you connect Jackett with Sonarr and Radarr

    recently I got a subscription to AllDebrid.com and just connect that with Kodi + Seren or Stremio + Torrentio. Alldebrid is a torrent cache server, if you add a torrent to their site it usually is already cached on their side and then you can download the files at your maximum speed. It’s great for streaming high quality Blu-rays with Kodi or Stremio (which have built in scrapers, so no need to manually add torrents). Just google a tutorial with Kodi+Seren+Alldebrid or Stremio+Torrentio+Alldebrid. The sub is super cheap. And game torrents, like from fitgirl, are also cached on there.

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 years ago

      I highly recommend upgrading from Jackett to Prowlarr.

      More indexers available, Prowlarr syncs its indexers to the rest of the 'arr suite automatically, you can use it to manually search your indexers for whatever instead of just specific categories via the 'arrs (sending the desired results directly to your dl client), and there’s a nice history page where you can see what software performed what searches to which indexers, all the parameters it used, how many results it got, and even manually re-trigger individual searches to see the results.