It's just a text file. Read it like any text file. Read it in and use some regex to parse it.
Computer Science Canada BitTorrent Metadata from command line? |
| Author: | DtY [ Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | BitTorrent Metadata from command line? |
Does a program exist to do this? I need to extract some metadata from torrent files (specifically file size and torrent name) using a linux command line. Google brought up nothing useful |
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| Author: | Aziz [ Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:BitTorrent Metadata from command line? |
It's just a text file. Read it like any text file. Read it in and use some regex to parse it. |
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| Author: | rdrake [ Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:05 pm ] | ||
| Post subject: | RE:BitTorrent Metadata from command line? | ||
Check out transmissioncli that comes with Transmission. Man page here: Transmission CLI man page.
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| Author: | DtY [ Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:BitTorrent Metadata from command line? |
Aziz: It's binary based, I'm pretty sure. I looked at the specification a while ago, and it's something I could easily write a program to unpack, but why bother when someone's probably already done it? rdrake: Like this  Thanks, that's just what I need |
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| Author: | Aziz [ Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:BitTorrent Metadata from command line? |
Of course! I somehow remember opening a .torrent file in notepad, and viewing it, but of course, I have a bad memory. Sorry for leading you down the wrong path! 
And thanks rdrake, I LOVE LEARNING. |
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| Author: | DtY [ Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RE:BitTorrent Metadata from command line? |
Aziz @ Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:05 pm wrote: Of course! I somehow remember opening a .torrent file in notepad, and viewing it, but of course, I have a bad memory. Sorry for leading you down the wrong path!
And thanks rdrake, I LOVE LEARNING. If you're interested in learning more about it, BT has a complete specification of the format (somewhere). It's pretty interesting, it's all based around python. (Iirc, the basic types you have in the file are strings, integers, lists, and dictionaries) |
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