I having been using your project for downloading torrent on my server for a couple of weeks now and it works very well. Thanks for your contribution! I used to use a simple HTTP file server to retrieve the downloaded files to my computer. As I used this cumbersome approach heavily on a daily basis, I began to implement a tool to download torrent efficiently just by running a local command with the magnet link which sends torrent download request to the server. You may find my current working prototype sloppy but please check out my project.
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torrent
This repository implements BitTorrent-related packages and command-line utilities in Go. The emphasis is on use as a library from other projects. It's been used 24/7 in production by a downstream, private service since late 2014.
There is support for protocol encryption, DHT, PEX, uTP, and various extensions. See the package documentation for a more complete list. There are several data storage backends provided: blob, file, and mmap, and you can write your own, such as to store data on S3, or in a database. You can use the provided binaries in ./cmd
, or use package torrent
as a library for your own applications.
Many of the sub-packages can be used for other purposes: bencode, and tracker, in particular.
Installation
Install the library package with go get github.com/anacrolix/torrent
, or the provided cmds with go get github.com/anacrolix/torrent/cmd/...
.
Library example
There is a small example in the package documentation.
Other public projects using torrent
- Go Peerflix
- Cloud Torrent
- Android Torrent Client
- Android libtorrent
- Trickl - Torrent Client
- Confluence
- Remote-Torrent
Commands
Here I'll describe what some of the provided commands in ./cmd
do.
Note that the godo
command which is invoked in the following examples builds and executes a Go import path, like go run
. It's easier to use this convention than to spell out the install/invoke cycle for every single example.
torrent
Downloads torrents from the command-line. This first example does not use godo
.
$ go get github.com/anacrolix/torrent/cmd/torrent
# Now 'torrent' should be in $GOPATH/bin, which should be in $PATH.
$ torrent 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:KRWPCX3SJUM4IMM4YF5RPHL6ANPYTQPU'
ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso [===================================================================>] 99% downloading (1.0 GB/1.0 GB)
2015/04/01 02:08:20 main.go:137: downloaded ALL the torrents
$ md5sum ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso
1b305d585b1918f297164add46784116 ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso
$ echo such amaze
wow
torrentfs
torrentfs mounts a FUSE filesystem at -mountDir
. The contents are the torrents described by the torrent files and magnet links at -metainfoDir
. Data for read requests is fetched only as required from the torrent network, and stored at -downloadDir
.
$ mkdir mnt torrents
$ godo github.com/anacrolix/torrent/cmd/torrentfs -mountDir=mnt -metainfoDir=torrents &
$ cd torrents
$ wget http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04.2/ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent
$ cd ..
$ ls mnt
ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso
$ pv mnt/ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso | md5sum
996MB 0:04:40 [3.55MB/s] [========================================>] 100%
1b305d585b1918f297164add46784116 -
torrent-magnet
Creates a magnet link from a torrent file. Note the extracted trackers, display name, and info hash.
$ godo github.com/anacrolix/torrent/cmd/torrent-magnet < ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:546cf15f724d19c4319cc17b179d7e035f89c1f4&dn=ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftorrent.ubuntu.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fipv6.torrent.ubuntu.com%3A6969%2Fannounce