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Can I seed on torrents I have not downloaded but have the files to? (vlemmy.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Thing is, I have the batman series from the 60s that I downloaded a long time ago. I deleted the torrent but I want to seed again because I remember it having like 1 or 2 people seeding and I have better internet nowadays, I have two questions on this:

Is there a way to find the torrent directly from metadata on the files or some other way instead of having to search on sites until I find it?
If I were to find a different upload of the same files, can I just verify the files I have and start uploading directly without having to download them first?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a way to find the torrent directly from metadata on the files or some other way instead of having to search on sites until I find it?

Yes and no. You may have some luck using a torrent search site with DHT crawler to see if it managed to index the torrent hash you are looking for. e.g. BTDigg, Bitsearch, etc.

But that's only one piece of the puzzle, if the torrent swarm is dead (no seeds/peers) then the torrent hash alone is not very useful. You require a .torrent file to reseed dead torrents. So without a .torrent file you'd better hope the torrent you are looking for still has some peers on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bitsearch is definitely your best friend here. It seems like it has the most complete collection overall. If the torrent is dead dead, the infohash isn't entirely useless, because you can use it on torrent caching sites to try and retrieve the .torrent file. The main ones that come to mind for me are itorrents.org, torrage.info, and btcache.me.