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.
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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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