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A node library for encoding and decoding bencoded data, according to the BitTorrent specification.
from Wikipedia:
Bencode (pronounced like B encode) is the encoding used by the peer-to-peer file sharing system BitTorrent for storing and transmitting loosely structured data.
It supports four different types of values:
Bencoding is most commonly used in torrent files. These metadata files are simply bencoded dictionaries.
npm install bencode
19,235 op/s » bencode
9,684 op/s » bencoding
11,988 op/s » dht_bencode
8,946 op/s » bncode
18,744 op/s » dht
33,786 op/s » bencode
55,040 op/s » bencoding
40,872 op/s » dht_bencode
2,533 op/s » bncode
30,292 op/s » dht
Benchmarks run on an 1.8 GHz Intel Core i5 with io.js 1.0.4
To run the benchmarks simply use
npm run bench
var bencode = require( 'bencode' )
You can also use node-bencode with browserify to be able to use it in a lot of modern browsers.
var data = {
string: 'Hello World',
integer: 12345,
dict: {
key: 'This is a string within a dictionary'
},
list: [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 'string', 5, {} ]
}
var result = bencode.encode( data )
d4:dictd3:key36:This is a string within a dictionarye7:integeri12345e4:listli1ei2ei3ei4e6:stringi5edee6:string11:Hello Worlde
var data = new Buffer( 'd6:string11:Hello World7:integeri12345e4:dictd3:key36:This is a string within a dictionarye4:litli1ei2ei3ei4e6:stringi5edeee' )
var result = bencode.decode( data )
{
string: <Buffer 48 65 6c 6c 6f 20 57 6f 72 6c 64>,
integer: 12345,
dict: {
key: <Buffer 54 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 61 20 73 74 72 69 6e 67 20 77 69 74 68 69 6e 20 61 20 64 69 63 74 69 6f 6e 61 72 79>
},
list: [ 1, 2, 3, 4, <Buffer 73 74 72 69 6e 67>, 5, {} ]
}
Automagically convert bytestrings to strings:
var result = bencode.decode( data, 'utf8' )
{
string: 'Hello World',
integer: 12345,
dict: {
key: 'This is a string within a dictionary'
},
list: [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 'string', 5, {} ]
}
Buffer
|Array
|String
|Object
|Number
data
Returns Buffer
Buffer
dataString
encoding
If encoding
is set, bytestrings are
automatically converted to strings.
Returns Object
| Array
| Buffer
| String
| Number
FAQs
Bencode de/encoder
We found that bencode demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 11 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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