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parse-torrent
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Also works in the browser with browserify! Works well with the buffers returned from bncode.
This module is used by WebTorrent.
npm install parse-torrent
var parseTorrent = require('parse-torrent')
var torrent = fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/torrents/leaves.torrent')
var parsed
try {
parsed = parseTorrent(torrent)
} catch (e) {
// the torrent file was corrupt
console.error(e)
}
console.log(parsed.name) // Prints "Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.epub"
The parsed
torrent object looks like this:
{
infoHash: 'd2474e86c95b19b8bcfdb92bc12c9d44667cfa36',
name: 'Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.epub',
private: false,
created: new Date('Thu Aug 01 2013 06:27:46 GMT-0700 (PDT)'),
announce: [
'http://tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce',
'udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80',
'udp://tracker.ccc.de:80',
'udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80',
'udp://fr33domtracker.h33t.com:3310/announce'
],
files: [
{
path: 'Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.epub',
name: 'Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.epub',
length: 362017,
offset: 0
}
],
length: 362017,
pieceLength: 16384,
lastPieceLength: 1569,
pieces: [
'1f9c3f59beec079715ec53324bde8569e4a0b4eb',
'ec42307d4ce5557b5d3964c5ef55d354cf4a6ecc',
'7bf1bcaf79d11fa5e0be06593c8faafc0c2ba2cf',
'76d71c5b01526b23007f9e9929beafc5151e6511',
'0931a1b44c21bf1e68b9138f90495e690dbc55f5',
'72e4c2944cbacf26e6b3ae8a7229d88aafa05f61',
'eaae6abf3f07cb6db9677cc6aded4dd3985e4586',
'27567fa7639f065f71b18954304aca6366729e0b',
'4773d77ae80caa96a524804dfe4b9bd3deaef999',
'c9dd51027467519d5eb2561ae2cc01467de5f643',
'0a60bcba24797692efa8770d23df0a830d91cb35',
'b3407a88baa0590dc8c9aa6a120f274367dcd867',
'e88e8338c572a06e3c801b29f519df532b3e76f6',
'70cf6aee53107f3d39378483f69cf80fa568b1ea',
'c53b506159e988d8bc16922d125d77d803d652c3',
'ca3070c16eed9172ab506d20e522ea3f1ab674b3',
'f923d76fe8f44ff32e372c3b376564c6fb5f0dbe',
'52164f03629fd1322636babb2c014b7dae582da4',
'1363965261e6ce12b43701f0a8c9ed1520a70eba',
'004400a267765f6d3dd5c7beb5bd3c75f3df2a54',
'560a61801147fa4ec7cf568e703acb04e5610a4d',
'56dcc242d03293e9446cf5e457d8eb3d9588fd90',
'c698de9b0dad92980906c026d8c1408fa08fe4ec'
]
}
This was originally based on read-torrent by mafintosh. It's basically a pared-down version of that, but it works in the browser (so WebTorrent can use it), doesn't have huge npm dependencies like request
(saving on file size), and it has tests. Thanks for publishing good modules, mafintosh!
MIT. Copyright (c) Feross Aboukhadijeh.
FAQs
Parse a torrent identifier (magnet uri, .torrent file, info hash)
The npm package parse-torrent receives a total of 3,121 weekly downloads. As such, parse-torrent popularity was classified as popular.
We found that parse-torrent demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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