Torrents
This torrent list is the “ultimate unified list” of releases by Anna’s Archive, Library Genesis, Sci-Hub, and others. By seeding these torrents, you help preserve humanity’s knowledge and culture. These torrents represent the vast majority of human knowledge that can be mirrored in bulk.
These torrents are not meant for downloading individual books. They are meant for long-term preservation. With these torrents you can set up a full mirror of Anna’s Archive, using our source code and metadata (which can be generated or downloaded as ElasticSearch and MariaDB databases). We also have full lists of torrents, as JSON.
Currently 60% of the total 521.1TB is copied in at least 4 locations, and only 3% in more than 10 locations. We need your help to get to 100%!
— Thomas Jefferson, 1791 “The lost cannot be recovered; but let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use, in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.”
The list of torrents is split in three parts:
1. The first part is managed and released by Anna’s Archive. These include books, papers, and magazines from websites such as Z-Library and Internet Archive. It also includes metadata records from websites such as WorldCat and ISBNdb.
2. The second part is managed and released by others, such as Library Genesis and Sci-Hub. We include these torrents in order to present a unified list of everything you need to mirror Anna’s Archive.
3. Miscellaneous other torrents; not critical to seed and not included in stats or the torrent list generator.
Torrents seeded by Anna’s Archive are indicated with a checkmark (✅). Some torrents get temporarily embargoed (????) upon release, for various reasons (e.g. protecting our scraping methods). An embargo means very slow initial seeding speeds. They get lifted within a year.
For more information about the different collections, see the Datasets page. Also see the Torrents FAQ.
IMPORTANT: If you seed large amounts of our collection (50TB or more), please contact us so we can let you know when we deprecate any large torrents.
You can help out enormously by seeding torrents that are low on seeders. If everyone who reads this chips in, we can preserve these collections forever. This is the current breakdown, excluding embargoed torrents, but including external torrents:
???? 210.2TB <4 seeders ???? 293.4TB 4–10 seeders ???? 17.5TB >10 seeders
Generate Torrent List §
Generate a list of torrents, sorted by (seeders + 0.1*leechers)*fraction-of-torrent-size-compared-to-average-size + random-number-between-0.0-and-2.0, ascending. Specify a maximum TB to store (we simply keep adding torrents until max TB is reached).
Max TB: Type: JSON URLs Magnet links Generate
We only show non-obsolete, non-embargoed files with at least one seeder here. For a complete list see the full torrents JSON. For an unofficial tool that actually downloads the torrent files, see this repo.
Similar Lists §
Similar lists, independently maintained. Note that at the time of this writing, all these lists are included in our list, under External Collections, similarly to how Anna’s Archive itself is a meta-collection of many external collections.
Managed by Anna’s Archive §
These torrents are managed and released by Anna’s Archive.
Torrents with “aac” in the filename use the Anna’s Archive Containers format. Torrents that are crossed out have been superseded by newer torrents, for example because newer metadata has become available — we normally only do this with small metadata torrents.
External Collections §
These torrents are managed and released by others. We include these torrents in order to present a unified list of everything you need to mirror Anna’s Archive.
Other Torrents by Anna’s Archive §
These are miscellaneous torrents which are not critical to seed, but contain useful data for certain use cases. These torrents are not included in the seeding stats or torrent list generator.