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Jackett vs Velociraptor
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Jackett and Velociraptor — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
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Jackett vs Velociraptor: at a glance
What is Jackett?
Jackett keeps up its daily indexer fixes, adding trackers and chasing domain moves.
Jackett is an open-source proxy that turns hundreds of torrent tracker sites into a single Torznab API for media automation tools. It ships an auto-generated release about every day. The November 11 and 12 builds added the private sites bytepeer and an API-based cyanbug and worked around snowpt's removed download links; the November 13 build moves dontorrent to a new domain.
What is Velociraptor?
Velociraptor's recent releases are mostly about patching CVEs.
Velociraptor 0.77.3 shipped on October 5 as a bug fix and CVE release; it also adds an artifact that uploads server results to Azure Monitor and trims the columns emitted by the backup artifacts. 0.77.2 and a 0.76.7 backport in September and August were CVE fixes. The 0.77.1 feature release landed in June, but its notes in the feed only link out.
Jackett vs Velociraptor: editorial side-by-side
Jackett
5.0INFRA · APIS
Jackett keeps up its daily indexer fixes, adding trackers and chasing domain moves.
◆ Current state
Jackett is an open-source proxy that turns hundreds of torrent tracker sites into a single Torznab API for media automation tools. It ships an auto-generated release about every day. The November 11 and 12 builds added the private sites bytepeer and an API-based cyanbug and worked around snowpt's removed download links; the November 13 build moves dontorrent to a new domain.
◆ Where it's heading
The work stays reactive: trackers change domains, logins and page layouts, and Jackett adjusts definitions within a day. A recurring sub-pattern is moving sites to API-based connections, as with magnetz last week and cyanbug now.
◆ Prediction
More trackers moving from page scraping to API or API-key connections is the most visible pattern to continue, alongside the usual daily domain fixes.
Velociraptor
0.0INFRA · APIS
Velociraptor's recent releases are mostly about patching CVEs.
◆ Current state
Velociraptor 0.77.3 shipped on October 5 as a bug fix and CVE release; it also adds an artifact that uploads server results to Azure Monitor and trims the columns emitted by the backup artifacts. 0.77.2 and a 0.76.7 backport in September and August were CVE fixes. The 0.77.1 feature release landed in June, but its notes in the feed only link out.
◆ Where it's heading
Since June the project has been in security mode, fixing CVEs on the current line and backporting to the previous one. Feature work shows up as new artifacts, here an Azure Monitor export, which keeps Velociraptor feeding results into the logging tools teams already use.
◆ Prediction
Expect further 0.77 patch releases and possibly another backport if new CVEs are published; the timing of a 0.78 feature release is not signaled here.
Alternatives to Jackett and Velociraptor
Other Infra & APIs products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Jackett or Velociraptor.
Payload CMS
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Nautobot
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Clair
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Shuffle
Shuffle tags builds almost daily, but the notes are empty.
KrakenD
KrakenD's community edition is shipping only dependency bumps.
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Recent activity from Jackett and Velociraptor
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoJackettJackett moves dontorrent to a new domain
- 2d agoJackettJackett adds bytepeer and cyanbug-api, works around snowpt
- 3d agoJackettJackett fixes date parsing on three sites, drops mteampt domains
- 4d agoJackettJackett adds hdchina, bumps torrenttip and torrentsome domains
- 5d agoJackettJackett removes hxpt, fixes karagarga login
- 6d agoJackettJackett moves magnetz to an API-key Torznab connection
- 1mo agoVelociraptorVelociraptor 0.77.3 fixes CVEs and adds Azure Monitor upload
- 1mo agoVelociraptorVelociraptor 0.77.2 patches published CVEs
- 3mo agoVelociraptorVelociraptor 0.76.7 backports CVE fixes
- 4mo agoVelociraptorVelociraptor 0.77.1 feature release ships
- 5mo agoVelociraptorVelociraptor 0.77.1 RC1 opens for testing
- 5mo agoVelociraptorVelociraptor 0.76.6 bug fix release
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Jackett and Velociraptor?
Both compete on the same themes — open-source — within Infra & APIs. Jackett is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Jackett better than Velociraptor?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Jackett is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Jackett?
Top Jackett alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Jackett alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/jackett for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Velociraptor?
Top Velociraptor alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Velociraptor alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/velociraptor for the full list with editorial commentary on each.