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Convert 'hostname:port' strings to BitTorrent's compact ip/host binary returned by Trackers
This module is the opposite of compact2string. It works in the browser with browserify. It is used by WebTorrent, and more specifically, the bittorrent-tracker and bittorrent-dht modules.
npm install string2compact
var string2compact = require('string2compact')
var compact = string2compact('10.10.10.5:65408')
console.log(compact) // new Buffer('0A0A0A05FF80', 'hex')
var compacts = string2compact([ '10.10.10.5:128', '100.56.58.99:28525' ])
console.log(compacts) // new Buffer('0A0A0A05008064383a636f6d', 'hex')
MIT. Copyright (c) Feross Aboukhadijeh and WebTorrent, LLC.
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Convert 'hostname:port' strings to BitTorrent's compact ip/host binary returned by Trackers
The npm package string2compact receives a total of 9,230 weekly downloads. As such, string2compact popularity was classified as popular.
We found that string2compact demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 9 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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