The original post: /r/torrents by /u/Marco3104 on 2025-02-25 22:34:13.
In the last two days, I have learned about the functionality of Prowlarr combined with the cross-seed script, it's wonderful. I added all the indexers I need, connected the script to my client and tested a few settings.
Now, when I use the search command so that the script goes through all my torrents to find potential cross-seed candidates on the trackers, I can see in the verbose logs that the script sends many requests to the indexers (lets say 10 requests for every torrent of my collection). Since I can't find a command (please correct me if there is one) that allows me to search for candidates of only a couple of torrents, the script processes all my torrents sequentially, resulting in a high number of requests within a short period.
I have two questions:
- Do the indexers place a burden on the trackers when requesting metadata for potential torrent candidates or do they retrieve this information from a separate source?
- If they do strain the trackers, is it even a significant or an issue at all? Or is it something I should be concerned about? I would be heartbroken to get banned for something like this.
To give an idea of the scale: I have a few hundred torrents, therefore the script ends up requesting metadata for a couple of thousands of torrents within about half an hour.