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DtY

Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:39 am


BitTorrent Metadata from command line?

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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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Aziz

Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:30 pm


RE:BitTorrent Metadata from command line?

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It's just a text file. Read it like any text file. Read it in and use some regex to parse it. :D


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rdrake

Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:05 pm


RE:BitTorrent Metadata from command line?

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Check out transmissioncli that comes with Transmission.

Man page here:  [url=http://linux.die.net/man/1/transmissioncli]Transmission CLI man page.

[code]transmissioncli -i .torrent[/code]


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DtY

Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:47 pm


RE:BitTorrent Metadata from command line?

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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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Aziz

Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:05 pm


RE:BitTorrent Metadata from command line?

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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! :P

And thanks rdrake, I LOVE LEARNING.


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DtY

Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:30 pm


Re: RE:BitTorrent Metadata from command line?

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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! :P

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)