bitmagnet
BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and Servarr stack integration.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Aug 2026.
Also an alternative to Wayback Machine.
At a glance
bitmagnet quick facts
- Health score
- 40/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 4,439
- Last commit
- 3 months ago (Aug 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.10.0, Mar 2025
- Licence
- MIT
Top alternatives to bitmagnet
Full rankings: Wayback Machine alternatives
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
bitmagnet scores 40/100, #18 of 19 in Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP): 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.10.0, 1.7 years ago) earns 5.2 of 25, 4,439 stars add 14.6 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 5.2 / 25
v0.10.0 released 1.7 years ago
- Stars 14.6 / 20
4.4k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 1
- Last 12 months
- 3 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #18 of 19 tools in Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP) by health , between Wayback (#17) and Sosse (#19) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Go, Docker |
| Latest release | v0.10.0 · 1.7 years ago |
| Stars | 4,439 |
| Open issues | 61 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | bitmagnet-io/bitmagnet ↗ |
bitmagnet vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with bitmagnet (Archiving and Digital Preservation (DP)), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paperless-ngx | 99 | 47k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| ArchiveBox | 98 | 29k | MIT | yesterday |
| Open Archiver | 84 | 2.4k | AGPL-3.0 | 6 days ago |
| Omeka S | 81 | 528 | GPL-3.0 | 7 days ago |
| bitmagnet (this tool) | 40 | 4.4k | MIT | 3 months ago |
| Sosse | 22 | 2 | AGPL-3.0 | 7 months ago |
bitmagnet: common questions
What does bitmagnet replace?
Repoly lists bitmagnet as an open-source alternative to Wayback Machine. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where bitmagnet stands against the others.
Is bitmagnet still maintained?
bitmagnet had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 3 months ago; the latest tagged release, v0.10.0, is from 1.7 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
Run itSponsored
Run bitmagnet on a VPS from $4/mo
bitmagnet ships a Docker image, so any of these providers can run it on a small instance.
- is*hosting NVMe VPS in 20+ locations, hourly billing from $5/mo Deploy ↗
- ProHoster VPS with DDoS protection included from $4/mo Deploy ↗
- GODLIKE Game and app servers on NVMe from $4/mo Deploy ↗
Affiliate links. Repoly may earn a commission, which never affects health scores.