hdvinnie / private-trackers-spreadsheet

A spreadsheet providing detailed information about private trackers

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private-trackers-spreadsheet's Issues

Consider removing Moz Grade column

I'm back 🙂 One more question to discuss: I see no purpose in Mozilla Observatory ratings for private trackers.

First of all, there's no way an automatic checker can access all tracker pages: it sees only the login page. How would it know if the website is safe or not? Not to mention, anyone who decides to join such private communities should understand possible risks (more info).

This grade is mostly useful for web developers who would like to test their own websites and learn what can be improved. There're other safety checkers like Google's Safe Browsing or WOT Security Check. But they are equally worthless for your average private trackers user.

Current ratings are actually misleading: such a respected tracker as BTN got an F (lowest score) while trackers like IPTorrents got a D+ (higher score). To quote the wiki page above:

Red trackers are essentially shady - either the IPT mafia empire or other trackers run by staff known for shitty practices such as trading accounts, DDoSing other sites, encouraging pay2leech or storing passwords in plaintext

So my advice is: let's remove this column altogether. I can prepare a PR later.

Codebase \ Torrent Tracker Platforms

I propose to transfer information from this repository to the main table (to a separate tab).
Receive information via API, for example:
https://api.github.com/repos/OPSnet/Gazelle

Define Private Tracker

What definition of 'private tracker' is this project using?

There are some public frontends (no signup), with private flag set in torrents and no anonymous announce to the tracker.

I.e. is it private trackers in the specification sense, or just private frontends? Or both?

This could be clarified in the Information section of the readme.

Updated column doesn't sort properly

When clicking on the "Updated" header the table is sorted, but not in the right way. It should sort by honoring the date format.

Get data from Jackett?

https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett/tree/master/src/Jackett.Common/Definitions

Before someone contributes detailed stats, could make a second table for all private trackers supported by Jackett?
For example, if we look at https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett/blob/master/src/Jackett.Common/Definitions/3dtorrents.yml . We can parse the yml and get site name, private, and parse the categories to fill our type column.
name: 3D Torrents, type: private,

     - {id: 14, cat: Movies, desc: "Movies XviD"}
      - {id: 34, cat: Movies, desc: "Movies UltraHD"}
      - {id: 15, cat: Movies, desc: "Movies DVD-R"}
      - {id: 11, cat: Movies, desc: "Movies 720p"}
      - {id: 13, cat: Movies, desc: "Movies 1080p"}
      - {id: 16, cat: Movies, desc: "Movies 3DTV"}
      - {id: 17, cat: Movies, desc: "Movies Blu-ray"}
      - {id: 27, cat: Movies, desc: "Movies BD25 Encode"}
      - {id: 33, cat: Movies, desc: "Movies BD9 AVCHD"}
      - {id: 22, cat: Movies, desc: "Movies 2D to 3D Conv"}
      - {id: 32, cat: Movies, desc: "Bluray MKV Remux"}
      - {id: 23, cat: Movies, desc: "Movies Evo 3D"}
      - {id: 21, cat: PC, desc: "3D Software"}
      - {id: 2, cat: Audio, desc: "Music"}
      - {id: 28, cat: XXX, desc: "Adult 720p"}
      - {id: 29, cat: XXX, desc: "Adult 1080p"}
      - {id: 30, cat: XXX, desc: "Adult Blu-ray"}
      - {id: 31, cat: Other, desc: "Misc"}
      - {id: 19, cat: Audio, desc: "Audio Packs"}

From this we can get, Type: Movies, PC, Audio, XXX

Make a second table, maybe hidden by an accordion, with headers: Name, and Type

Thoughts?

AvistaZ question

AvistaZ's codebase is listed as "Custom" but doesn't it run UNIT3D? (Thanks for your work, by the way!) Just figured I should ask about this, whether it's intentionally listed as such or not.

desireleasers

Anyone on desireleasers.be to add it to list? Indian site powered by UNIT3D.

HDTorrents

Isn't there codebase XBTIT and not Gazelle? @pemyunupa

Spreadsheet is empty

Hello Vinnie,

Not sure what's happening but the spreadsheet is empty fyi.

Cheers!

Some columns don't sort properly

• Moz Grade descending: C and C+ appear before A
• Ratio Diff and Join Diff descending: Medium comes before Hard. They seem to be sorted alphabetically instead of by the value they represent

Show which trackers take donations for FL, H&R, etc perks

Trackers that allow you to donate and then get perks such as global freeleech, immunity from H&R, etc are enticing to me. It would be nice to have a column on the spreadsheet showing this.

I know...probably controversial...but I do seed and never get H&Rs, I just like these perks so I can avoid issues and don't have to do the whole building ratio game.

Contribute anonymously

Can we contribute anonymously?
Isn't it possible with something like Google Forms?
I think it would be better if the method for contribution is user friendly.

Cell Text Color

I think it would be nice to add text color to cell data for Ratio Diff and Join Diff.

So if cell data === 'Easy' then append text-success class.
If cell data === 'Medium' then append text-warning class.
If cell data === 'Hard' then append text-danger class.

Thoughts?

Add Mozilla Observatory Rating

• add sites ratings

TV CHAOS UK

British Movie, TV site based on UNIT3D. Anyone on it to add it to the list?

AR 'Join by'

Invites/Recruitment

We do not have open signups, thanks.

Don't link to a god-awful and harmful website (torrentinvites)

Hi there. I was considering to contribute to the spreadsheet until I saw that you have "torrentinvites" linked under "Other Resources" dropdown.

As someone who uses private trackers since 2009 and who spent a lot of time climbing the ladder to gain access to these private communities (by contributing to many trackers), such websites should never be referenced to, ever. I understand they might be helpful because of their "Tracker Reviews" sections, but still: you should never link to a harmful website that has "... Buy, Trade, Sell ... Tracker Invites" in the title.

The spreadsheet you made is useful for newbies or people who don't have much experience with trackers (to understand what's available). But having such a link can easily set them on the wrong path of spending money on invites and later becoming banned for life because they "didn't think it's forbidden":
https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/20m6ur/dont_join_forums_like_torrentinvitesorg/

I found your spreadsheet because it's listed under r/trackers description (largest public space for tracker discussions), so I think you should be responsible and don't help such websites as "torrentinvites" to become more popular.

If you don't think it's morally wrong to link to such websites, here're some other reasons:

1. The website doesn't use SSL, all pages are http and can be viewed/intercepted both by your ISP and by other people (if you happen to use public Wi-Fi, for example)
2. Such websites have and will be hacked: https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#TorrentInvites
3. Inconsistent: if you mention one crappy website, why don't you add Torrent-Invites (with a hyphen), InviteScene, InviteHawk and so on too?

I have much respect to you for making the UNIT3D platform (used on some of my favorite trackers) and for all your other contributions. So I hope you can fix this minor issue. If people need reviews of other trackers, they can always google "PTP tracker review" and visit these websites themselves. Just please don't make them seem "respectable" in any way by having this URL under "Other Resources". They are trash and the fact that they happen to make reviews (with the sole purpose of buying or selling invites later) doesn't make them any better.

Looking forward to contribute and update the data after this issue is resolved.
I made a PR which replaces the said link with Reddit's r/trackers URL (much more helpful for newbies and doesn't promote invite buying/selling).

Remove public trackers from the main table

So the spreadsheet is about private trackers and the read.js script for parsing Jackett data has an explicit data.type == 'private' check (to filter public trackers).

Then maybe these public trackers should be removed since they aren't private: RuTracker, PornoLab, LostFilmTV (not even a tracker anymore).

I think only trackers that sometimes have open registrations should be present in the table. There's no need to list and update data for trackers that are always open.

If you agree, I can provide a pull request.

Columns Not Sorting Properly

Join Difficulty and Ratio Difficulty are sorting alphabetically instead of being enumerated.

This was referenced in a different issue that was closed, but as far as I can tell never fixed. #97

Data Tables has a way to do enumeration but I couldn't figure out a way to implement it with the way app.js is written currently.

Recommedation is to change how it's stored in the tracker.json and use datatables built in functionality to display either an icon or something similar.

ie: "JoinDiff" : "1" = small image or progress bar.

Hyperlinks?

Have site name contain hyperlink too site?

Favor *active* torrents over total torrents, when available

Currently, the spreadsheet has a "Torrents" column that is described as "The amount of torrents said site has". Going by the numbers, this seems to be "total" torrents, not active. I think instead this field should ideally be active torrents, not total (active + inactive), because most people do not care about dead/inactive torrents, nor should they contribute to the site's torrent count.

This issue becomes apparent when you look at two examples such as IPTorrents and TorrentLeech. As of 2023-08-08, IPTorrents has 997,901 active torrents (of an unknown amount of total torrents), while TorrentLeech only has 543,253 active torrents (of 1,920,581 total torrents). If you went by the spreadsheet, you'd think TL was much bigger (it currently says IPT has 1,112,764 and TL has 1,756,867). But you'd be wrong, as when you actually go to search these sites you quickly realize IPT's collection is actually the one that is much bigger.

So I think this column should ideally show active torrents. And maybe have an "(A)" or a "(T)" after the value to indicate which is being quoted.

TorrentBD is listed as invite only on their website

Don't think I should link the URL here but here's a screenshot.