The torrent is how you can download the entire LEMON database to use offline. It is perfect to run in your own shop, in the garage where you don't have internet, etc. We tried hard to make it easy to use. You still need general skills about file management, but you do not need to write any code or use a command prompt/terminal. If you are familiar with the CHARM torrent, rest assured: LEMON's is easier to use.
If you are on Windows, it is as easy as: Download the torrent,
run lemon-website.exe, and then use the file picker
to select the index.json file(s) in the torrent so it
knows where the database is.
Excessive RAM usage on Linux glibc: When using specifically
the lemon-website-linux-x86_64-glibc executable
distributed in the torrent, downloading many zip files may
cause the RAM usage to increase up to about 20GB and stay
there.
The lemon-website-linux-x86_64-musl
and lemon-website.exe executables do not have
this issue.
We recommend using the -musl binary on Linux
instead of the -glibc binary.
(for the curious: It is caused by memory fragmentation, which glibc is horrible at)
You need a torrent client to download the database. I recommend qBittorrent.
The torrent contains two main folders: lemon
and charm. You can choose to download either one or
both (most torrent clients let you select and deselect folders to
download). Each database is about 500GB.
The CHARM data is exactly the same as in the original CHARM torrent, but compressed better.
Read the INSTRUCTIONS.txt inside the torrent to learn how to run it properly.
We only provide binaries for Windows x86_64 and Linux x86_64. LEMON should work on macOS, ARM linux, or ARM windows just fine, but you will have to compile it from source code.