I’m not sure if it’s common knowledge, but a ‘shadow’ RARBG search engine went up when the site went down.

https://shadowbg-test.xav1erenc.workers.dev/

As far as I could tell, it provided direct access to all of its original torrents and/or continually seeded torrents by other dedicated seeders (or sites).

But the search engine has suddenly become inaccessible. Anyone know why? Is there an alternative?

thanks

  • MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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    Make your own ! Disclaimer: you need to use docker

    1. Acquire the database rarbg_db.zip - 393.8Mb, there’s torrents
    2. docker-compose.yaml…
    shadowdb:
       image: "fullaxx/shadowbg"
       container_name: "shadowdb"
       ports:
         - ${SHADOWDB_PORT}:80
       restart: unless-stopped
       volumes:
         - ${DOCKERDIR}/shadowdb/rarbg_db.sqlite:/data/rarbg_db.sqlite
    
    1. There is no 3, search and profit…
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        Eh, it’s this com, if you know, you know, and due diligence is expected.

        But to help, when they fell they dropped their db as a torrent. I passed the size as an indicator of a known (to me) good. Try or don’t.

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      I’m trying to set this up but getting shadowdb exited with code 1.

      Is this supposed to also make a front end accessible or something? Myip:80?

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        Yeah, there’s a frontend, replace ${SHADOWDB_PORT} with your desired port. Maybe restart in portainer, it’s not the most robust, but it works.

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    I wish I would’ve known about this. 1337 isn’t nearly as good of a site. I’m thinking about getting something like Overseer just to not have to deal with torrent sites since RARBG went down

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      You still have to have indexers, so you need to deal with them indirectly, but the UI is sooo much nicer. Sonarr/Radarr are pretty easy too. If you know your way around docker you can get it up and running pretty quick.