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# aquatic: high-performance open BitTorrent tracker
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[](https://github.com/greatest-ape/aquatic/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
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High-performance open BitTorrent tracker, consisting
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of sub-implementations for different protocols:
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[aquatic_udp]: ./crates/udp
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[aquatic_http]: ./crates/http
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[aquatic_ws]: ./crates/ws
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| Name | Protocol | OS requirements |
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| [aquatic_udp] | BitTorrent over UDP | Unix-like |
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| [aquatic_http] | BitTorrent over HTTP, optionally over TLS | Linux 5.8+ |
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| [aquatic_ws] | WebTorrent, optionally over TLS | Linux 5.8+ |
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Features at a glance:
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- Multithreaded design for handling large amounts of traffic
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- All data is stored in-memory (no database needed)
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- IPv4 and IPv6 support
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- Supports forbidding/allowing info hashes
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- Prometheus metrics
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- Automated CI testing of full file transfers
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Known users:
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- [explodie.org public tracker](https://explodie.org/opentracker.html) (`udp://explodie.org:6969`), typically [serving ~100,000 requests per second](https://explodie.org/tracker-stats.html)
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## Performance of the UDP implementation
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More benchmark details are available [here](./documents/aquatic-udp-load-test-2023-01-11.pdf).
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## Usage
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Please refer to the README pages for the respective implementations listed in
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the table above.
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## Architectural overview
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## Copyright and license
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Copyright (c) 2020-2023 Joakim Frostegård
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Distributed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. Please refer to the
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`LICENSE` file in the repository root directory for details.
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## Trivia
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The tracker is called aquatic because it thrives under a torrent of bits ;-)
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