This queries the tracker websites, but I was hoping this would be a distributed hash table (DHT) search engine, like bitcq. Bitcq is indispensible for obscure torrents, but its interface could be better.
Edit: wait, looking at the source, this doesn't search torrents on the mentioned trackers, it keeps an eye on feeds of newest or most popular (in case of tpb) torrents and caches the tracker metadata. This doesn't seem very useful to me. Over a long time you'll have a big view of the tracker's database, but not older content than you started tracking, and, in the case of tpb, you'll just have a view of torrents that have been in the top 100 since you started crawling. Weird. Also, peer counts don't seem to get updated, I think.
Edit: wait, looking at the source, this doesn't search torrents on the mentioned trackers, it keeps an eye on feeds of newest or most popular (in case of tpb) torrents and caches the tracker metadata. This doesn't seem very useful to me. Over a long time you'll have a big view of the tracker's database, but not older content than you started tracking, and, in the case of tpb, you'll just have a view of torrents that have been in the top 100 since you started crawling. Weird. Also, peer counts don't seem to get updated, I think.