trace.moe database dump 2025-10
Happy Moe Day (萌の日)
trace.moe database dump 2025-10 is released
It includes...
2025-10-10 13:39:22 +0000 UTC View Post
soruly posts
trace.moe is 10x-100x faster and more accurate now
I've rewritten the search algorithm and changed the database from Solr to Milvus, an in-memory vector database. This brings down the search time from about 1-10 seconds to under 0.1 second. This is...
2025-08-30 15:40:53 +0000 UTC View PostImproved 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 i...
2025-08-03 16:06:45 +0000 UTC View PostBug 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 searc...
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 rul...
2025-04-11 18:46:22 +0000 UTC View Posttrace.moe database dump 2025-04
This is the most recent database dump for trace.moe which contains image hashes of 37773.3 ho...
2025-04-09 11:38:34 +0000 UTC View PostServer 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 1...
trace.moe database dump 2024-10
This is the most recent database dump for trace.moe which contains image hashes of 35678.5 ho...
2024-10-14 14:46:38 +0000 UTC View Posttrace.moe database dump 2024-04
This is the most recent database dump for trace.moe which contains image hashes of 34400 hour...
2024-04-28 09:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostSimplifying 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 ...
trace.moe database dump 2023-10
This is the most recent database dump for trace.moe which contains image hashes of 33200 hour...
2023-10-13 20:56:54 +0000 UTC View PostUpgraded 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 patreon...
2023-07-12 09:09:08 +0000 UTC View Posttrace.moe database dump 2023-04
This is the most recent database dump for trace.moe which contains image hashes of 33200 hour...
2023-04-30 06:58:33 +0000 UTC View Posttrace.moe project review (2022)
A summary of trace.moe project in 2022.
2023-01-23 12:47:50 +0000 UTC View Posttrace.moe database dump 2022-10
This is the most recent database dump for trace.moe which contains image hashes of 32500 hour...
2022-10-09 17:54:25 +0000 UTC View Posttrace.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 y... 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:
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) 2022-05-28 06:03:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-03-30 07:25:20 +0000 UTC View PostMoved 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...
2022-01-30 15:07:11 +0000 UTC View Posttrace.moe project review (2021)
A summary of trace.moe project in 2021.
2022-01-05 09:44:29 +0000 UTC View PostAdded 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(?...
trace.moe database dump 2021-10
This is the most recent database dump for trace.moe which contains image hashes of 31000 hour...
2021-10-10 07:57:47 +0000 UTC View PostSoftware 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 ja...
Add trace.moe to windows context menu
You can search images directly from windows context menu by installing this powershell script. See instructions below
Microsoft Edge Add-on is published on store now
https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/se...
2021-08-27 05:07:55 +0000 UTC View Postpartnering 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!
trace.moe database dump 2021-04
This is the most recent database dump for trace.moe which contains image hashes of ~5000 anim...
2021-06-02 10:24:23 +0000 UTC View PostNew 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 s...
2021-05-10 10:12:57 +0000 UTC View PostRecent Updates
1. Traffic Graph
You can now see the server's traffic on https://trace.moe/about
2. Account Page
You can check your sear...