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TLDR

A daily-updated collection of public BitTorrent tracker URLs to speed up torrent downloads and improve peer discovery reliability.

Mindmap

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  root((repo))
    What it does
      Daily tracker lists
      Health checking bot
      Multiple protocols
    Content types
      UDP trackers
      HTTP/HTTPS trackers
      WebSocket trackers
      Privacy networks
    Use cases
      Speed up downloads
      Improve reliability
      Configure clients
    Access
      Plain text format
      GitHub Pages
      jsDelivr CDN

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Add reliable public trackers to your torrent client to speed up downloads and improve peer discovery.

USE CASE 2

Configure qBittorrent, Transmission, or aria2 with maintained, health-checked tracker lists.

USE CASE 3

Use privacy-focused tracker lists for I2P or Yggdrasil overlay networks when downloading anonymously.

USE CASE 4

Access raw IP tracker lists if your client has DNS resolution issues.

Tech stack

BitTorrentUDPHTTP/HTTPSWebSocket

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
Use it freely, but any project you distribute that includes this code must also be GPL-licensed and open source.

In plain English

This repository is a daily-updated collection of public BitTorrent tracker URLs. In the BitTorrent protocol, a tracker is a server that helps peers in a torrent swarm discover each other. When you download a file via torrent, your client announces itself to one or more trackers, and the tracker responds with the addresses of other peers who have the file. Having more active trackers in your torrent can speed up downloads and improve reliability, since if one tracker goes down others can still coordinate peer discovery. The project maintains several curated lists in plain text format, updated automatically every day by a bot that checks tracker health. The lists are organized by protocol type: all trackers, just UDP trackers, just HTTP/HTTPS trackers, WebSocket trackers, and lists for more privacy-focused overlay networks like I2P and Yggdrasil. There is also a top-20 "best" list of the highest-performing trackers. Alternative versions of the lists using raw IP addresses instead of domain names are available for users experiencing DNS problems. You would use this repository if you want to improve your BitTorrent download speeds by adding reliable public trackers to your client, or if you run a torrent client like qBittorrent, Transmission, or aria2 and want a maintained source of working tracker URLs. The repo also lists third-party tools for automatically importing these lists into popular clients. No programming language is listed because the content is plain text tracker URL lists rather than executable code. The lists are hosted on GitHub Pages and jsDelivr CDN for fast, reliable access.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
How do I add these BitTorrent tracker URLs to qBittorrent to improve my download speeds?
Prompt 2
Can you show me how to automatically import tracker lists from this repo into Transmission?
Prompt 3
What's the difference between UDP, HTTP, and WebSocket trackers, and which should I use?
Prompt 4
How do I use the raw IP tracker list instead of domain names if DNS isn't working?
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