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yoink is a lightweight open-source utility developed by MrMarble that addresses the ratio-maintenance needs of users active on private BitTorrent trackers. By monitoring designated RSS feeds or API endpoints, the program automatically identifies and downloads torrents whose trackers have flagged them as “freeleech,” meaning the user’s upload statistics are credited while no download statistics are recorded. This mechanism helps participants improve—or simply preserve—their required share ratios without manual intervention, a task that otherwise demands constant attention and bandwidth management. Written in Go and distributed as a single portable binary, yoink runs quietly in the background on Windows, macOS, or Linux, polling intervals and storage paths being configurable through a straightforward YAML file. Typical deployments see the software installed on always-on home servers or seed-boxes, where it can queue hundreds of freeleech releases overnight and seed them back to the community, thereby turning idle capacity into long-term ratio buffer. Version 1.0.1 represents the second public iteration, incorporating bug fixes for RSS parsing edge cases and more granular logging options compared to the initial 1.0.0 release. Because the tool interacts only with torrent metadata and relies on the user’s existing BitTorrent client for the actual payload transfer, it remains compatible with every major client that watches a folder for new .torrent files. The project is catalogued under the “Download Managers” section of software repositories, appealing equally to casual users seeking a set-and-forget solution and to power users who schedule synchronisation with multiple trackers. yoink is available at no cost on get.nero.com, with downloads delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, ensuring the latest version is always fetched and supporting batch installation alongside other applications.
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