@huggycn/bittorrent-peerid
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Map a BitTorrent peer ID to a human-readable client name and version
Also works in the browser with browserify!
This module is used by WebTorrent.
npm install bittorrent-peerid
const peerid = require('bittorrent-peerid')
const parsed = peerid('-AZ2200-6wfG2wk6wWLc')
console.log(parsed.client, parsed.version)
The parsed peerid object looks like this:
{
client: 'Vuze',
version: '2.2.0.0'
}
bittorrent-peerid can parse peer ids encoded in the following formats:
If an unknown peer id is passed in, the returned client will be unknown.
This module is based heavily on the BTPeerIDByteDecoderDefinitions class from Azureus (Vuze). Related resources include:
MIT. Copyright (c) Travis Fischer and WebTorrent, LLC.
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Map a BitTorrent peer ID to a human-readable client name and version
The npm package @huggycn/bittorrent-peerid receives a total of 36 weekly downloads. As such, @huggycn/bittorrent-peerid popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @huggycn/bittorrent-peerid demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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