Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf] (opens in new tab)

Bitmagnet -https://bitmagnet.io/ - does exactly that. I left it running for a few weeks and then stopped the crawler. Didn't expect much, but still somewhat disappointed by the garbage it reeled in.

2010. I remember those times. I was doing these things for science in 2008. Performance-wise, PEX was much faster than DHT. At least, in my setting.

This year, I was giving it as an assignment to students. Does not take much time with LLMs.

Crawling has been somewhat simplified with BEP 51

https://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0051.html

(2010)

old paper

The article neglects to define "DHT" before using it.