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by bArray 264 days ago
Does anybody know what they are using in the browser to perform DHT?

In theory this could be used to share torrent links by a different reference (ideally you could also add an anchor too). Somebody else could have a page that takes keywords and points you to pages hosted on the site.
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crumpled 264 days ago
The page is making a WebSocket connection to the server and getting the peer info through the WebSocket connection. I think the magic happens on the server.

This is a sample of the client-side code I found handling that: https://infohash.lol/_next/static/chunks/pages/p/%5Bpage%5D-...

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tdjsnelling 264 days ago
https://www.npmjs.com/package/bittorrent-dht is used on the server.

DHT crawlers/indexers already exist to perform that function; they crawl and store infohashes (+ metadata when they receive it) and allow users to search that metadata to return relevant infohashes

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