Am I missing something or is the source not actually available in that repo? I only see the compiled .beam files

Source code is available under the “src” branch.

what a strange way to use git

> This git branch maintain pre-compiled erlang files to start dhtcrawler2 directly. So you don't need to compile it yourself, just download it and run it to collect torrents and search a torrent by a keyword.

Ah, that is perfect. Thank you.