We don’t think many of you are familiar with the name ‘Tottler’. We too weren’t, but that was until @fNazR Tweeted us an interesting link. Tottler is an innovative new service that could become very popular amongst users of private torrent trackers. At first glance, it appears as a search engine that searches multiple private trackers for a given query (without the need for logging in). But that’s not all, Tottler is perhaps the first web based torrent tracer service. The site is said to monitor 30 torrent sites across the world. Most site features are available to non registered users but registering (which is free) will allow you to use advanced services such as ‘subscriptions’ option.

Tottler

Let’s talk about Tottler’s seemingly primary function first – torrent search. Tottler will search multiple private trackers for any given search query in seconds.

Tottler search 

But there is a limitation – search results do not provide a direct download link to the torrent file. This is understandable since most (if not all) torrent files are hosted on private trackers which require login. Anyways this should help users to find which release is available on which tracker, without having to log in to any of them. The search algorithm could be improved as it sometimes missed out trackers that already had the release we searched for.

Now here is the interesting part – if you click on one of the search results, it’ll take you to a page which lists the pre times of all trackers that uploaded that particular torrent file:

Tottler tracer

I think you’ve all heard about IRC tracer channels which track the pre times across multiple private torrent sites (if you haven’t, read thisthis channel is dead btw).  Tottler too can act as a tracer, only difference of it being a web based service.

According to the ‘Help’ page in Tottler, the service is based on tracker RSS feeds. Whether or not recorded pre times are affected by the delay in RSS feed updating is not clear as of now. Note that if you click on the torrent site name in search results or in pre time listing (hyperlinked in green), it’ll take you to a page which lists the last torrents uploaded to that tracker.

You can also subscribe to get updates on certain releases. This feature will only be available once you register and log into the site. More information about Tottler may be found on their Help page.

Site Name: Tottler (http://tottler.org)

Signup URL: http://tottler.org/signup

Note: According to Tottler’s Twitter feed, Internet Explorer is blocked from the new version of site.


6 Comments

  1. Violated // 10/10/2009 11:14:00 AM  

    Looks good. Thanks for the info.

  2. Johnno // 10/10/2009 05:42:00 PM  

    This seems dangerous. Now anti piracy can have a straight way of searching what trackers are releasing what.

    All the trackers that are being indexed here need to be aware of this, and this site needs to be shut down. This is compromising peoples security.

  3. Triad_470 // 10/10/2009 05:44:00 PM  

    I think anti piracy has already figured out what trackers upload what. If you and i can get into a private tracker site, i dont see any reason why those who get paid to do it won't.

  4. RedTheHat // 10/10/2009 10:27:00 PM  

    People will always get into trackers, its pretty simple. This is a case of relaying information out of trackers, when it is against tracker rules in the first place to relay information out of a tracker. It shouldn't be done, and it shouldn't be promoted. This is not a good thing that he is doing by running this site. All it does is further fuel the fires.

  5. TopTorrents // 10/11/2009 02:27:00 PM  

    Hi.

    Out site toptorrents.org is very similar, but we offer download links (to view some, you must register on the forum).
    The site isn't fully functional (or good looking) yet as we had some problems recently, but that will change in the near future.

  6. Maarten // 4/18/2010 03:29:00 AM  

    Site down?
    I get an advertising site now.