bittorrent

Is there a Python BitTorrent library that just works ? I need to tinker around with BitTorrent protocol for a research project and I don't want to reinvent the wheel and write my own implementation of the protocol (and neither I am capable of doing so) I looked at the sources for the official BitTorrent client, but that is not what I am looking for. A library/ module is what I would prefer. Thanks! Frédéric Hamidi You might want to have a look at the python-libtorrent project. It's a wrapper around the libtorrent C++ library, which claims to be efficient and easy to use. abhijeet BitTornado is

Is there a PHP module that you can use to programmatically read a torrent to find out information about it, Seeders for instance? Svish I have used these functions in a small website I made once. Think I found them with a php bittorrent tracker called OpenTracker or something, but can't find the website... You wont find the seeders in the torrent file though. The torrent file just contain info about the files, hash codes and lengths etc. And some tracker information I believe. How many seeders and such you will have to get from the tracker. You can read about the protocal at BitTorrent.org .

I started to explore the option of connecting with other using a p2p connection, so I coded a simple socket program in JAVA for android devices in which the users can share simple messages p2p (I didn't have any idea about NAT then). I got to know about NAT, so I now need to establish a TCP connection with another user which uses a server for discovery but payload is transferred p2p. I have also looked at XMPP(a very good and detailed explanation of how protocol works is here ) and UPnP but I dont know how to implement them. Another interesting question that arises is of BitTorrent because

I'm trying to use the BEncoding ObjC class to decode a .torrent file. NSData *rawdata = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:@"/path/to/the.torrent"]; NSData *torrent = [BEncoding objectFromEncodedData:rawdata]; When I NSLog torrent I get the following: { announce = <68747470 3a2f2f74 6f727265 6e742e75 62756e74 752e636f 6d3a3639 36392f61 6e6e6f75 6e6365>; comment = <5562756e 74752043 44207265 6c656173 65732e75 62756e74 752e636f 6d>; "creation date" = 1225365524; info = { length = 732766208; name = <7562756e 74752d38 2e31302d 6465736b 746f702d 69333836 2e69736f>; "piece length" = 524288; .... How do

Is there a BitTorrent client written completely (I mean completely) written in C# ? I am aware of the BitTorrent clients written in mono, I absolutely love it. Are there any other opensource BitTorrent clients other than MonoTorrent & BitSharp written in C# which is under development? Just wondering how much of an interest an "opensource bit torrent client in C#" would generate amongst C# programmer folks out there. EDIT: Do check out Michael Stum's Pumpkin torrent on http://pumpkintorrent.codeplex.com/ @Michael: thanks for sharing the project url. @Allan: thanks for MonoTorrent ;) MonoTorrent

I need a way to convert .torrents into magnet links. Would like a way to do so in python. Are there any libraries that already do this? You can do this with the bencode module, extracted from BitTorrent. To show you an example, I downloaded a torrent ISO of Ubuntu from here: http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04.1-desktop-i386.iso.torrent Then, you can parse it in Python like this: >>> import bencode >>> torrent = open('ubuntu-12.04.1-desktop-i386.iso.torrent', 'r').read() >>> metadata = bencode.bdecode(torrent) A magnet hash is calculated from only the "info" section of the torrent