torrent.cr

A BitTorrent client library written in pure Crystal.

Do note that this shard is currently in BETA.

Installation

Add this to your application's shard.yml:

dependencies:
  torrent:
    github: Papierkorb/torrent

Usage

Please see bin/ for example applications.

What's missing?

• Improve architecture
• Improve performance (Seeding is fine, leeching is expensive)
• Smarter leech and seed strategies
• Tons of other things
• The planned BEPs
• More tests (Figure out how to best test networking code)

Implemented BEPs

The index of all BEPs can be found at http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0000.html

• BEP-0003: The BitTorrent Protocol Specification
• BEP-0005: DHT Protocol (Experimental)
• BEP-0006: Fast Extension
• BEP-0010: Extension Protocol
• BEP-0011: Peer Exchange (PEX)
• BEP-0015: UDP Tracker Protocol for BitTorrent (Except for scraping)
• BEP-0020: Peer ID Conventions
• BEP-0023: Tracker Returns Compact Peer Lists
• BEP-0027: Private Torrents
• BEP-0041: UDP Tracker Protocol Extensions
• BEP-0048: Tracker Protocol Extension: Scrape

Planned

• BEP-0009: Extension for Peers to Send Metadata Files
• BEP-0040: Canonical Peer Priority

All entries are in ascending order of their BEP number

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/Papierkorb/torrent.cr/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Write tests
4. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• Papierkorb Stefan Merettig - creator, maintainer

Disclaimer

The authors of this library are in no way responsible for any copyright infiringements caused by using this library or software using this library. There are many legitimate use-cases for torrents outside of piracy. This library was written with the intention to be used for such legal purposes.

License

This library is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 ("MPL-2").

For a copy of the full license text see the included LICENSE file.

For a legally non-binding explanation visit: tl;drLegal