Torrent client in go from scratch
Weekend project, trying to figure out how sharing with torrent works
Can join swarm of multi-file repo with magnet URL
List of support:
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BEP 003 (original BitTorrent spec)
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Random + Rarest first piece finding (outlined in the BitTorrent Economics Paper)
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BEP 009 and BEP 010 for getting metadata from other peers supporting
ut_metadata -
Exposes port using UPnP
UI:
- none, but currently uses HAL for HATEOAS implementation https://github.com/nvellon/hal
Project was inspired by https://blog.jse.li/posts/torrent/