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lurb is a utility for testing BitTorrent clients.
Useful if you want to check your port-forwarding or similar, or just to send arbitrary handshakes and see if a peer has a torrent.
With npm:
npm i -g lurb
lurb handshake -h 127.0.0.1 -p 6969 -i ab6ad7ff24b5ed3a61352a1f1a7811a8c3cc6dde
Thanks to Bram Cohen for the initial BitTorrent specification, and Arvid Norberg for his amazing work on libtorrent.
Also thanks to gl0ryus for suggesting the name of this project.
FAQs
Utility for testing BitTorrent setups
We found that lurb 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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