Need help integrating BitTorrent tracker (have files to do it)

Cookiepuss - February 15, 2005 - 09:28

Here is the issue. I am wanting to add PHPBT (Get File Here see 'download') to Drupal.

I want to be able to have registered users attach .torrent files to their blog entires etc. once they upload the .torrent it should be added to the tracker. If you refer to the newtorrents.php file you see the code to add the hash and file name to the PHPBT tracker DB. So everytime someone uploaded a .torrent file it could be tracked(?).

I just don't know enough about Drupal to get this going. So any help would be appreciated. I think from other posts I have read that many others are interested in this functionality. With PHPBT it should be alot easier (?).

This would also be a great compliment to having RSS enclosures so users could point people to their XML feed to get torrents. ;) At least that is why I want it. . .

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It's being completed...

pbull - February 16, 2005 - 01:33

We're finishing up the Bit Torrent tracker for the DigitalBicycle project (http://digitalbicycle.org), and will be releasing the code very soon. So far it's working well will a couple dozen users on our beta site, but I've still got a lot of bugs to clean up.

It does support RSS 2.0 with enclosures, but at this point it's just a rather cludgy hack in node.module. If anyone's working on a better solution for RSS feeds, I'd be interested.

A patch has made it into 4.6

Boris Mann - February 16, 2005 - 01:52

A patch has made it into 4.6 which supports enclosures natively for RSS 0.92 -- this should work the same as RSS 2.0.

Fully extensible RSS in and out will likely have to wait for 4.7...and what it needs is one or more dedicated people to push through a consensus solution.

Sounds good. . .

Cookiepuss - February 16, 2005 - 05:30

Please post back once you have it up. I'm also looking into using TorrentFlux as a means of automatically seeding torents people have posted. But I am still working out the lagistics of it. Since the idea is that if a user uploads thier torrent the TorrentFlux install would start downloading the file to the server from the user. THen join in seeding in case the user drops off. Insuring that all hosted files are seeded. This would be better bandwidth eise for me since popular files would be seeded by a swarm while less popular by the server. Righ tnow I am plyisng around with using RSS-TorrentFlux to get the auomatic download/seeding going.

I am using the CVS version of Drupal which has enclosures support and it works well.

i've looked at this

sulleleven - March 1, 2005 - 17:05

i've looked at this rss-torrentflux recently as well. i think it would indeed be an interesting piece to play with. Have you any new updates on your end?

also, cant wait to try the torrent tracker from digitalbicycle. I know that it is based on bytemonsoon... speaking of which... this is of interest:
http://bytemonsoon.sourceforge.net/viewtopic.php?t=39
and new forum for the dev team is here:
http://bm-itemoi.sourceforge.net/
(though currently empty)

fyi

Blogtorrent

sethcohn - March 6, 2005 - 16:37

I'd recommend blogtorrent's code is worth looking...
they have made it really seamless to add items to a tracker.
No having to pre-setup .torrents, or anything else.

Porting this to drupal would be very very useful for everyone.

http://www.blogtorrent.com/