Create Your Own YouTorrent Clone in 1 Minute

Written by Ernesto on April 25, 2008 

YouTorrent recently restricted the number of sites it indexes, but before that, it was one of the most widely used BitTorrent meta-search engines. Due to this popularity many have copied the concept -and as of today- everyone can have their own YouTorrent clone, thanks to the free and open source “YouTorrent3″.

Update: The YouTorrent3 script used code and results from NowTorrents without permission. The links are removed.

When we announced that YouTorrent was launching, we did not expected the site to grow in popularity as quickly as it did. Only a month after its launch the site was pulling in 2.5 million visitors and climbing - quickly. In fact, YouTorrent became so popular that the site made it into the top 25 most visited BitTorrent sites only 2 months after its launch.

Unsurprisingly, other webmasters soon cloned the YouTorrent concept, and within a few weeks PizzaTorrent and NowTorrents saw the light, and even more clones followed. One of these clones is special though, as the code it offers is open source and available for free. The open source YouTorrent clone is named YouTorrent3 and has the same look and feel as the site it’s based on.

“In less than 1 minute you can have your own YouTorrent clone,” YouTorrent3 developer Aleksander told TorrentFreak. He explained that he decided to code it because he noticed that there was a growing interest for open source and easy to use YouTorrent clones.

It is extremely simple indeed, all you need to do is upload the files to your webserver and you’re good to go. It works fine, but the code can still be improved on, as Aleksander notes: “Don’t forget that work is coded in 1 hour, so don’t wonder why some code is strange or looks lame.”

At the moment only the frontend is available for download so people don’t need to install a database, and they can have their own YouTorrent clone online in a few seconds. Aleksander is still tweaking the backend to improve the caching system and make the database compatible with different SQL servers. The backend will be made public in a few weeks.

The source and instructions on how to get it working are available over here.

youtorrent3

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26 Apr 25, 2008 at 16:42 by Not an Anonymous poof! - Josh

I’d rather get some more torrent sites rather than 1million that search all the trackers. Its pointless to have more things searching the trackers than there are trackers.

27 Apr 25, 2008 at 20:44 by steve4576

by looking at the source code it looks like a clone of nowtorrents.com witch is a clone of youtorrent.com :)

28 Apr 25, 2008 at 22:03 by Anonymous

Woot, now I can share additional home made porn of me and my rabbit.

29 Apr 25, 2008 at 23:48 by Anonymous

meta search sites are useless, we need more trackers

30 Apr 26, 2008 at 00:19 by steve4576

how do we fix the XSS in search.php as until this is done this script is vulnerable to an XSS exploit and is unsafe to use..

be warned!

31 Apr 26, 2008 at 01:43 by Aleksander Hristov

Actually with XSS u wont be able to do anything , because there are is no “user” harmfull information on this site. For fixing the xss ( which i specificly said its left on purpose ) replace all with in search.php

32 Apr 26, 2008 at 01:44 by Aleksander Hristov

Php code doesnt show , sorry for the last post , look at the howto page

33 Apr 26, 2008 at 03:39 by yay,

yay, even more meta search engines!
i mean…..

i would prefer a put up a torrent site in 2 minutes

34 Apr 26, 2008 at 06:54 by markie

Why is it when I do a search in these websites like PizzaTorrent does the date added say 8 years ago. Are these torrents fake.

35 Apr 27, 2008 at 03:10 by Tino

[quote comment="359136"]The backend will be made public in a few weeks[/quote]
I WROTE THAT CODE, AND YOU STOLE IT. AND THE BACKEND YOU COULDNT STEAL!

36 Apr 27, 2008 at 03:17 by Tino

THIS IS ALL STOLEN FROM

http://www.nowtorrents.com

I CAN NOT BELIEVE YOU GUYS POSTED AND HELPED THIS GUY!

37 Apr 27, 2008 at 05:09 by steve4576

[quote comment="360897"]THIS IS ALL STOLEN FROM

http://www.nowtorrents.com

I CAN NOT BELIEVE YOU GUYS POSTED AND HELPED THIS GUY![/quote]

witch is all stolen (or copyd) from youtorrents.com.. funny how the world works!!!

38 Apr 27, 2008 at 06:01 by Tino

[quote comment="360973"][quote comment="360897"]THIS IS ALL STOLEN FROM

http://www.nowtorrents.com

I CAN NOT BELIEVE YOU GUYS POSTED AND HELPED THIS GUY![/quote]

witch is all stolen (or copyd) from youtorrents.com.. funny how the world works!!![/quote]

No that is not true, im talking about the SOURCE CODE, which was all newly written. Compair and you will see!

39 Apr 27, 2008 at 07:50 by Admin Of Nowtorrents

My revenge is sweet!!!

Try a search ;)

40 Apr 27, 2008 at 11:11 by ReX

[quote comment="361064"]My revenge is sweet!!!

Try a search ;)[/quote]

I try and works…

41 Apr 27, 2008 at 11:15 by zxq4b

Heh, a torrent site (that facilitates “stealing” certain peoples work) complains when someone “steals” their own work is.. slightly ironic..

That aside, the released source-code is basically just an interface to http://youtorrent3.com/get.php

If that site goes down, or changes, it’ll stop working.

There is pretty much *no* code that could have been “stolen” from Newtorrents.. Well, maybe the Javascript?

42 Apr 27, 2008 at 11:37 by fuck

why search not working?

43 Apr 27, 2008 at 12:15 by Admin Of Nowtorrents

[quote comment="361231"][quote comment="361064"]My revenge is sweet!!!

Try a search ;)[/quote]

I try and works…[/quote]
Yes it does now, he found another site to rip his content from.

At least it is not nowtorrents anymore, we banned the fucker.

Although he does use our AJAX, JAVASCRIPT, HTML, IMAGES AND CSS files!

44 Apr 27, 2008 at 23:45 by Wired

TorrentFreak don’t be a bitch, put those links back on! (Not that anyone’s going to have trouble finding them)

http://dev.youtorrent3.com/howto.php

45 Apr 28, 2008 at 03:23 by Radz

WTF??? where is download link… someone post it again please.. I will give you 2$ PayPal..

exclusivezia@yahoo.com

46 Apr 28, 2008 at 08:53 by Almo

How cares? Anyway it’s a copy of a copy of a copy…

47 Apr 28, 2008 at 16:13 by WTorrents Admin

I’m already running my own torrent site. I’m looking to scrape results from other torrent sites and return them as “external results” below my sites results. Will this do the trick?
For example, if someone searches “green eggs” on my site, but my tracker doesn’t have a result…how can I return results from other sites? Anyone know of a plug-in or something?

48 Apr 29, 2008 at 23:04 by dl

Here’s the source dode download:

http://dev.youtorrent3.com/sources/youtorrent3src-0.1.zip

49 Apr 30, 2008 at 05:37 by Anon

WE NEED THE BACKEND……… RELEASE THAT TOO.

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