Not able to download Torrent.

[Wrox]

I'm from India. Yea torrents are blocked here. So Im using VPNs. But Im not able to download the torrent file. Whenever i click 'get this torrent' nothing happens other than just a blink. Please help. Tried Incognito too. Please help.

[Moe]

It's one of two things:

- the retarded ads TPB uses are intercepting the click and causing a pop-up that your browser blocks. Try clicking it few times.

- your system isn't configured to handle magnet links. Look up your browser/os combo to see what the proper steps are.


You can also copy the magnet link and add it directly in your torrent client. Somewhere in your client's menu should be an open link item.

[Leokosta]

Is there a way to actually download the .torrent ? Most times, I get only "downloading metadata" , and I am stuck there. It would be nice to have the option to download the .torrent.

[Moe]

TPB does not serve torrent files anymore, just magnet links.

You can search the hash elsewhere and see if you can find a torrent file on other sites, though if you are having problems starting well seeded torrents, the issue is likely your system configuration.

[Leokosta]

Thanks for answering. It happens with some torrrents, with others it dosnt. Dont know how to solve it. It happens on my desktop and my notebook, so a system configuration problem is unlikely. I heard someplace that there was an extension that made available the .torrents. I think it was for Chrome or firefox, but I cant find it.

[dynstab2]

^^^ «It happens with some torrrents, with others it dosnt.»

With magnet links (the metadata is provided by the sharing swarm, not by an indexer serving .torrent files), the amount of time needed for a torrent's metadata to transfer to your app depends on the actual seeding state of the torrent. If well seeded, the transfer will be done well under a minute, sometimes almost instantly. If not seeded at all, the metadata won't be transferred and sharing won't start. And the whole gamut in between these two "extreme" cases. Also in between, cases where metadata transfer taking long now but being fast later, or vice versa, as the swarm evolves (as seeders are connecting to/disconnecting from the swarm in time).

Like suggested above, copy-paste the torrent's info_hash to torrentproject.se or zooqle.com and check if they provide a .torrent file. The info_hash is this 40-hexadecimal-digit string (sometimes called "DNA") located between "btih:" and "&dn=" in a magnet link (right-click the magnet icon > Copy Link Location > paste it in Notepad > lift info_hash).

[Moe]

Sounds like your system is fine then. If the swarms are smaller, it can be that there are no peers in the swarm, or you can't connect to them, or the ones you can connect to are using clients that don't support the magnet protocol.

The browser extension likely checks one or more of the various torrent cache sites to see if someone already uploaded the torrent file there.

[Leokosta]

Made some tests here. A few torrents are available on Zooqle in magnet and .torrent forms. Some times, the magnet link will stuck on "downloading metadata" . I then deleted it on my client ( utorrent 3.4.2 ) and downloaded the .torrent, and ir started and downloaded ok. Made the same test on Deluge, same result aswell. I found a firefox extension called Magrent, but the .torrents on files I have problem with is not found. Also tried with the hash method, no luck here. It would be nice is someone would test on another system, to see if they can download one of the problematic torrents. One of them is called: " The.Last.Man.On.Earth.S03E01.1080p.HEVC.x265-MeGusta " . It says it has 24 seeds and 230 peers on Utorrent. Thanks

[dynstab2]

Torrent BE7AEF142B69481B85C2B2791D6DD2B1CB5D699F wouldn't download for me as of 11:15 PM GMT, Sep 28 (unable to connect to the swarm for over half an hour; connected instantly to the 720p version though). First indexed on this fatidic day for KickAss Torrents as per Google. Is this the same torrent (info_hash)?
https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/1590317...65-MeGusta

[Leokosta]

Yep, thats the one . Good to know its not just me. I get worried that I have some weird problem on my system/ISP .