trace.moe database dump 2025-10
Happy Moe Day (萌の日)
trace.moe database dump 2025-10 is released
It includes data of 104,647 anime video files:
- image feauture (color layout) of each frame for image/scene similarity search
- detected scene changes
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 the biggest improvements I have ever made since I created this search engine 10 years ago.
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 be giving more accu...
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 search results (both Web and Telegram bot) would be faster and more reliable.
Improvements: faster video preview generation
Scene boundaries of a...
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 server continuously, t...
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 hours of anime. (No video files included)
These can be loaded into a local liresolr database for anime scene search. You can follow the project on...
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 128GB to 192GB to accommodate the increasing index size.
The server costs 20% more now and donations can only cover about half of the cost. It wo...
2025-01-22 12:23:06 +0000 UTC View Posttrace.moe database dump 2024-10
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 follow the project on...
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 hours of anime. (No video files included)
These can be loaded into a local liresolr database for anime scene search. You can follow the project on G...
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 is designed to distribute various tasks to remote machines so that compute-heavy tasks like hashing can be done on separate computers. This was to ens...
trace.moe database dump 2023-10
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 follow the project on G...
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 patreons and donors 😉
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 hours of anime. (No video files included)
These can be loaded into a local liresolr database for anime scene search. You can follow the project on G...
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 hours of anime. (No video files included)
These can be loaded into a local liresolr database for anime scene search. You can follow the project on G...
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 you click on each result - [Web] automatic retry search when server is busy
previously when the server is busy it would ask you to try again ... 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 Google Chrome for And...
2022-06-26 06:53:28 +0000 UTC View PostSearch 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)
2022-05-28 06:03:16 +0000 UTC View PostTracking 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 htt...
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 running a single dedicated server on Hetzner, with Ryzen 5950X, 128GB RAM and 2x16TB hdd. The data center is located in Europe, which is close to whe...
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(?) store 7.7 million frames in index, it has actually analyzed 2.7 billion frames! Most of the frames are duplicated so keeping only a fraction of the ...
trace.moe database dump 2021-10
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-hash of all anime, a...
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 java-latest-openjdk (java 17) for worker nodes
Upgraded from solr 7.5.0 to 8.9.0
Upgraded liresolr with image cache issues fixed and updated...
2021-09-29 03:45:49 +0000 UTC View PostAdd 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
2021-09-19 15:59:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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
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 subbed versions with ...
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 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 shut down on 30th Ju...
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 search quota and limits on https://trace.moe/account
3. Making Anilist info optio...