{"id":26,"date":"2005-10-17T21:22:49","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-11-20T19:30:03","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T18:30:03","slug":"making-a-minimalist-bittorrent-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Making a Minimalist Bittorrent Client"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent the weekend sorting out bittorrent support in Peapod<\/a> so that it
\nwasn't quite such a mess. Previously I had hacked a version of
\nbtdownloadheadless.py so that it would exit when the download
\ncompleted. I was then shelling out to this from within Peapod.
\nObviously this is a less than ideal situation partly because it meant I had to escape URLs from the shell. So I hacked away at btdownloadheadless.py until I had a simple class I could call to do the bittorrent download. It gives almost no feedback
\nexcept a return code upon completion of the download.<\/p>\n

from btclient import mytorrent
\nurl = "http:\/\/www.evilgeniuschronicles.org\/audio\/egc-2005-10-10.mp3.torrent"
\nsave_dir  = \/tmp
\ntorrent = mytorrent(url,save_dir)
\nret = torrent.run()
\nsys.exit(ret)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you wanted to carry on seeding rather than exiting on completion you could do:<\/p>\n

torrent = mytorrent(url,save_dir,selfish=0)
\ntorrent.run()<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I then added a name == "__main__" section into btclient so that it can be used a simple bittorrent client.
\nbtclient.py http:\/\/www.evilgeniuschronicles.org\/audio\/egc-2005-10-10.mp3.torrent \/tmp<\/strong>
\nor to seed:
\nbtclient.py http:\/\/www.evilgeniuschronicles.org\/audio\/egc-2005-10-10.mp3.torrent \/tmp seed<\/strong><\/p>\n

btclient.py  can be downloaded from here<\/a> or alternatively see our subversion repository<\/a> where the latest version can always be found.<\/p>\n

Hopefully someone will find this useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent the weekend sorting out bittorrent support in Peapod so that it wasn't quite such a mess. Previously I had hacked a version of btdownloadheadless.py so that it would exit when the download completed. I was then shelling out to this from within Peapod. Obviously this is a less than ideal situation partly because … Continue reading Making a Minimalist Bittorrent Client<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peapod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}