soruly

Improved time code accuracy and new preview url encoding format

trace.moe has just re-indexed everything using video's fps (mostly 23.976 fps, or whatever fps the video is encoded), instead of the previous fixed 12fps.

I've also identified and fixed the issue that causes time code to drift by about 1 second, occasionally showing video previews of the wrong scene.

Now it should...

Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

Fixed: anilist info sometimes missing from search results
This was caused by rate limit on anilist API server. Now trace.moe API would prefetch all anilist info and serve it from cache, so search results (both Web and Telegram bot) would be faster and more reliable.

Improvements: faster video preview generation
S...

Tor is now blocked

over last few days, it appears a few users (possibly one only) has been spamming trace.moe-api server via Tor since Tor has multiple exit nodes with various IP address, the rate limit and quota rules would not work for these clients. Using Tor they would get unlimited search quota and rate limit. If they intent to spam the se...

trace.moe database dump 2025-04

https://nyaa.si/view/1957686

This is the most recent database dump for trace.moe which contains image hashes of 37773.3 hours of anime. (No video files included)

These can be loaded into a local liresolr database for anime scene search. You can f...

Server Upgrade

trace.moe has over 100,000 videos indexed now!
That is about 30TB and the server was running out of space. So, I've just upgraded the HDD from 2x16TB to 2x22TB. I've also upgraded the RAM from 128GB to 192GB to accommodate the increasing index size.

The server costs 20% more now and donations can only cover about hal...

trace.moe database dump 2024-10

https://nyaa.si/view/1885596

This is the most recent database dump for trace.moe which contains image hashes of 35678.5 hours of anime. (No video files included)

These can be loaded into a local liresolr database for anime scene search. You can f...

trace.moe database dump 2024-04

https://nyaa.si/view/1808091

This is the most recent database dump for trace.moe which contains image hashes of 34400 hours of anime. (No video files included)

These can be loaded into a local liresolr database for anime scene search. You can fol...

Simplifying trace.moe system

To make it easy for everyone to run their own trace.moe system. I've simplified the system architecture by merging the workers and media server into a single api server.

The existing system is designed to distribute various tasks to remote machines so that compute-heavy tasks like hashing can be done on separate comput...

trace.moe database dump 2023-10

https://nyaa.si/view/1728746

This is the most recent database dump for trace.moe which contains image hashes of 33200 hours of anime. (No video files included)

These can be loaded into a local liresolr database for anime scene search. You can fol...

Upgraded trace.moe's server

The old server running 5950X is now replaced by 7950X3D

Search time is reduced by 30-40% (≧▽≦)

Now it can search over 824 million images under 0.5s

Thank you all the patreons and donors 😉

trace.moe database dump 2023-04

https://nyaa.si/view/1666614

This is the most recent database dump for trace.moe which contains image hashes of 33200 hours of anime. (No video files included)

These can be loaded into a local liresolr database for anime scene search. You can fol...

trace.moe project review (2022)

A summary of trace.moe project in 2022.

trace.moe database dump 2022-10

https://nyaa.si/view/1588462

This is the most recent database dump for trace.moe which contains image hashes of 32500 hours of anime. (No video files included)

These can be loaded into a local liresolr database for anime scene search. You can fol...

trace.moe July updates

• There are a number of improvements made in July:
• [Web] Improved web UI on mobile phone
  search results now display as a full list on small screens, the detail page slides in when you click on each result
• [Web] automatic retry search when server is busy
  previously when the server is busy it would a...
  2022-07-24 09:31:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Search images from images in your Android

If you have installed trace.moe's PWA (Progressive Web App), you can natively share images from your device to search on trace.moe. See demo below:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TNT-d91fD1Q 

This feature is only available in G...

Search images from files on Desktop

You can now search image files directly from Desktop's context menu

1. Have Google Chrome 102 installed (Desktop)

2. Install as PWA App

3. Right-click any images (jpg/png/webp)

4. (Open with... => trace.moe)

Tracking search accuracy

I was wondering whether the accuracy of trace.moe would decreases over time.  Or if search accuracy would increase when new anime series are indexed. So, aside from performance data, I've made a accuracy graph in trace.moe's about page.

You can see the graph on About Page 2022-03-30 07:25:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Moved trace.moe to cloud

trace.moe has finally moved to cloud.

Moving all the servers to cloud would make the service more reliable by using power and network infrastructures from data center.

The server is now running a single dedicated server on Hetzner, with Ryzen 5950X, 128GB RAM and 2x16TB hdd. The data center is located in Europe, w...

trace.moe project review (2021)

A summary of trace.moe project in 2021.

Added video data statistics

You can now see more system info about video data statistics in About Page.
https://trace.moe/about

While the system only(?) store 7.7 million frames in index, it has actually analyzed 2.7 billion frames! Most of the frames are duplicated so keeping onl...

trace.moe database dump 2021-10

https://nyaa.si/view/1442127

This is the most recent database dump for trace.moe which contains image hashes of 31000 hours of anime. (No video files included)

As mentioned previously, the hashing libarary has upgraded. So these is a complete re-...

Software updates and Improving Search Accuracy

As seen from above sample, some anime not found previously can now be found after these updates and a re-hash of all anime. See details below:

Upgraded from java-1.8.0-openjdk (java 8) to java-latest-openjdk (java 17) for worker nodes

Upgraded from solr 7.5.0 to 8.9.0

Upgraded liresolr with image cache issu...

Add trace.moe to windows context menu

You can search images directly from windows context menu by installing this powershell script. See instructions below

https://github.com/soruly/trace.moe-windows-menu

Microsoft Edge Add-on is published on store now

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/search-anime-by-screensho/bkigcpancdclbiekidfbcghedaielbda

partnering with Data Pipeline World Championship

trace.moe is going to participate as API partner at Data Pipeline World Championship next week! Aside from the USD$10,000 prices, winners would also get the trace.moe API keys from me!

https://www.datapipelinewc.com/

trace.moe database dump 2021-04

https://nyaa.si/view/1393270

This is the most recent database dump for trace.moe which contains image hashes of ~5000 anime titles. (No video files included)

Comparing to last DB dump, this data set has recent anime added, and has replaced many s...

New trace.moe API published

https://soruly.github.io/trace.moe-api/

The new trace.moe API is finallized. There are quite a lot of changes so please read the above API docs. It also has a migration guide for developers to update their program. The old API is planned to ...

Recent Updates

1. Traffic Graph
You can now see the server's traffic on https://trace.moe/about

2. Account Page
You can check your search quota and limits on https://trace.moe/account

3. Makin...