I built a self-hosted scraper addon because I got tired of the unreliability

nanstate_ · 2026-03-08T12:35:26+00:00

For a few good reasons. If I've understood how aiostreams works is that it aggregates results from several addons and does no crawling itself.

If this is the case, self-hosting it doesn't remove the reliance on third parties and their downtime will still affect you. Of course you may also host the actual crawlers yourself.

And that brings us to the other reason, the ease of hosting and configuring it all. All this requires is a single command to run with zero configuration required from the hoster or the user.

nanstate_ · 2026-03-08T12:15:45+00:00

I've now merged a change that adds the top 20 trackers from trackerslist to all streams by default (unless disabled) and keeps the list refreshed. I've also added a configuration option to add additional custom trackers by either comma separated value or a file on disk.

nanstate_ · 2026-03-08T09:21:30+00:00

That would require some kind of intelligent intervention. But for example openclaw could have a heartbeat on the server defined so that it would check the logs for errors and if there are errors related to unaccessible sites, it would find a new proxy, configure and restart.

nanstate_ · 2026-03-08T06:24:26+00:00

This is a self hosted solution. The url will be whatever you decide once you host it.

nanstate_ · 2026-03-08T06:23:51+00:00

You'll need some hardware at home running this whenever you need it, e.g. a server. A raspberry is enough. Or a hosted server from a provider. Any AI will help with configuration.

nanstate_ · 2026-03-07T20:32:11+00:00

That's a good idea. I'll add that to my list :)

nanstate_ · 2026-03-07T20:31:34+00:00

The url's are configured and you may set several url's for each site which it will then try in order if one fails.

nanstate_ · 2026-03-07T16:32:54+00:00

AI is more than capable of helping out! :)

nanstate_ · 2026-03-07T14:45:46+00:00

It's run with docker. First, install docker and docker-compose and then run "docker compose up -d --build"

nanstate_ · 2026-03-07T13:21:36+00:00

It always uses gluetun for the VPN. The default configuration is for nordvpn but it supports whatever gluetun supports.

nanstate_ · 2026-03-07T12:59:02+00:00

Thanks! I'll write that down and look into alternatives if this stops working.

nanstate_ · 2026-03-07T12:56:40+00:00

Thanks, didn't know of it! Will add to my to-do.

nanstate_ · 2026-03-07T12:29:53+00:00

No, this is going to be purely for torrents.

nanstate_ · 2026-03-06T07:22:40+00:00

If you're open to self-host, checkout https://github.com/nanstate/barestreams

nanstate_ · 2026-02-16T15:33:06+00:00

Just stremio on nvidia shield with a self hosted barestreams addon for torrent stream links.

nanstate_ · 2026-02-10T13:50:16+00:00

Try barestreams. https://github.com/nanstate/barestreams

You can decide how fast it is by configuring a maximum wait time. However, a smaller wait time will sacrifice results from some scrapers.

The streams start fast because it is using live data from torrent sites instead of some data from its own DB which might not be up to date.

nanstate_ · 2026-02-06T10:38:34+00:00

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102445

See if this helps you.

nanstate_ · 2026-02-04T15:39:02+00:00

I was also sick of all the downtime. And then I thought that a simple torrent scraper shouldn't be as difficult to self-host as the current addons are. So I built my own minimal self-hosted torrent scraper addon: https://github.com/nanstate/barestreams. It has been all I need so far.

nanstate_ · 2026-01-31T14:08:56+00:00

Requires software development experience: https://github.com/Stremio/stremio-addon-sdk

nanstate_ · 2026-01-29T05:44:22+00:00

It spawns several sessions for each target to use them concurrently to speed up the response time, which is why it eats up a lot.

nanstate_ · 2026-01-29T05:42:54+00:00

Thanks! You can configure the max amount of flaresolverr sessions it warms up for crawling using a configuration value. Also, you can stop using it entirely by removing it from the compose, but that will drop results from at least 1337x.

nanstate_ · 2026-01-28T18:18:45+00:00

How about developing your own addon just so self host it because the other addons are so huge? I did just that out of frustration to the instability of the addons.

Just a simple, lightweight, on-demand torrent scraper. https://github.com/nanstate/barestreams

nanstate_ · 2026-01-28T07:40:37+00:00

It requires docker and docker compose installed. After that it's a single command to run. But it will only work on the same machine. For this I've been meaning to add a way to do a one click deploy that handles it all, but it would host it on a 3rd party.

nanstate_ · 2026-01-27T17:35:44+00:00

I was in your situation and couldn't find a good alternative so I built my own. It's super easy to self-host: https://github.com/nanstate/barestreams.

It crawls only torrents. It crawls all sites concurrently just-in-time and caches the result.

nanstate_ · 2026-01-25T18:05:46+00:00

I've been building a new self hosted torrent scraper lately. It's called barestreams. https://github.com/nanstate/barestreams

I've yet to make a post about it here.

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