bittorrent Questions

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I want to (quickly) put a program/script together to read the fileset from a .torrent file. I want to then use that set to delete any files from a specific directory that do not belong to the torre...
Umbel asked 2/1, 2009 at 12:42

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I am not very clear about the idea of wire-level protocols. I heard BitTorrent uses it and read that a wirelevel protocol can be considered an opposite of API. I read RMI calls can be considered wi...
Erminna asked 24/2, 2010 at 6:23

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I'm using TransmissionBT torrent client (http://www.transmissionbt.com/). Is it possible to make simple modification in code to be able to download files in sequential mode (from beginning of the ...
Gervais asked 30/8, 2015 at 8:53

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I am looking for some books, tutorial sites . I want to understand how Bittorrent protocol works and later to implement my own tracker . I don't have a big knowledge in network protocols so I am ...
Preshrunk asked 24/12, 2009 at 10:43

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I've coded a Telegram bot (python-telegram-bot) and I would like to know if there's a way to open an app from the bot. To be more accurate, the bot searches torrent links and the original idea was...
Dichroic asked 14/11, 2018 at 11:4

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I've had a look around for the answer to this, but I only seem to be able to find software that does it for you. Does anybody know how to go about doing this in python?
Monthly asked 3/4, 2010 at 20:10

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If I have a torrent w/o any trackers in it, and I just started a bittorent client so I have no peers yet...how do I know who to first connect with in the DHT? It seems like I would have to know at ...
Ferritin asked 25/7, 2009 at 5:38

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I am interested in understanding the different approaches to handling large file uploads in a Rails application, 2-5Gb files. I understand that in order to transfer a file of this size it will nee...
Thaxter asked 25/5, 2013 at 12:26

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The BitTorrent protocol doesn't specify block (piece) size. This is left to the user. (I've seen different torrents for the same content with 3 or more different choices.) I'm thinking of filing a ...
Trulatrull asked 11/12, 2020 at 11:39

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I was wondering if anyone had an example of how to download a torrent using NodeJS? Essentially, I have an RSS Feed of torrents that I iterate through and grab the torrent file url, then would like...
Johanson asked 7/10, 2015 at 19:27

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uTorrent has an availability indicator that shows something like how many of the peers you are connected to have how much of the torrent. If it is less than 1, all the peers you are connected to co...
Bootless asked 20/3, 2017 at 10:33

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I build a little tool (IoT) with an Intel Compute Stick which downloads a torrent content and then seed it. And it works. Now I want to seed the files I have downloaded EVEN after a restart and w...
Dusty asked 19/10, 2016 at 8:1

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When will it be posible to exchange any kind of data via P2P with WebRTC? I'm thinking about making a P2P bittorrent software, not to stream audio/video. Thanks
Actor asked 5/6, 2012 at 20:43

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My understanding is that IPFS and Bittorrent Mainline DHT are built on top of a Distributed hash Table (Kademlia). They use the file hash as Kademlia key to find a list of peer that might have this...
Irina asked 12/11, 2018 at 18:19

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I am trying to implement a bittorrent tracker in Laravel. However, I am stuck at the moment as the download won't start. There is one peer which it appears to be seeding and I am 100% sure that it ...
Prissy asked 26/12, 2015 at 18:32

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I'm building a BitTorrent client application in Java and I have 2 small question: Can torrent contain folders? recursively? If a torrent contains n files (not directories - for simplicity), do I ...
Readership asked 20/3, 2018 at 21:1

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I read official documetation here and wikipedia article about bittorrent client here but couldn't find how tracker exactly work. As per my understanding tracker should know which peer have which pi...
Wattmeter asked 16/11, 2017 at 13:35

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If firewalls block all incoming connections by default how do p2p technologies work? Like torrents, how do you connect to everyone who shares a file and get the information from them? Does it go th...
Tropophilous asked 17/2, 2013 at 22:25

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I have a magnet link (e.g.: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1c1b9f5a3b6f19d8dbcbab5d5a43a6585e4a7db6) contained in a variable as a string and would like the script to open the default program that handles magn...
Vasilikivasilis asked 19/2, 2012 at 16:28

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If I have two laptops and connect them to the same internet connection then download the same torrent file using a BitTorrent software, what do the trackers see? and how will the torrent software b...
Farquhar asked 11/7, 2017 at 9:36

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I'm looking to build a bittorrent client in Ruby (although language is not important over here). I read a BEP specification which says querying at /announce (without DHT support) to tracker would...
Cosgrove asked 17/5, 2017 at 11:39

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Occasionally, I will leave an aria2c connection seeding after it has finished downloading, and then hop on a network which doesn't like me seeding. I'd like to immediately close the connection af...
Chipman asked 19/4, 2017 at 17:47

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I'm building a Bittorrent client using Node.js and am failing at getting answer from peers over the PWP metadata extension (BEP 0009) I get peers from the DHT (BEP 0005) (where i announce), then s...
Schonfeld asked 28/12, 2016 at 21:44

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I've been throwing a little bit of spare time at writing a BitTorrent client, mostly out of curiosity but partly out of a desire to improve my c# skills. I've been using the theory wiki as my guide...
Truditrudie asked 9/7, 2009 at 0:35

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I know about NAT traversal and about STUN, TURN and ICE and its use. I want to know whether these are implemented in peer to peer file sharing application like bittorrent. Whether trackers facilita...
Marquita asked 21/5, 2016 at 20:41

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