BitTorrent Metadata from command line?

[DtY]

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

[Aziz]

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

[rdrake]

Check out transmissioncli that comes with Transmission.

Man page here: Transmission CLI man page.

code:

transmissioncli -i <file>.torrent

[DtY]

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

[Aziz]

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.

[DtY]

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)