[ale] Creating and Verifying Torrent Files?

[James Sumners]

Attached is a Python script (based on the one at [1]) that will read a
torrent file and write out some information about it. I wrote it
against the torrent at [2]. If you need to add more output to the
script, see [3] for information on the torrent file format.

To use the script, simply pass in the torrent file as the first
parameter: `./read_torrent.py /path/to/some.torrent`

[1] -- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/406695/reading-the-fileset-from-a-torrent/549160#549160
[2] -- http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.1a/i386/bt-cd/debian-6.0.1a-i386-CD-1.iso.torrent
[3] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_file

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Fellas,
>
> I'm trying to create a torrent file via CLI, but I'm stuck after creating
> the file. I want to verify that it created the file correctly, but I don't
> want to verify by uploading the file to my public server, use another
> torrent client, etc. Is there a way I can read the .torrent file via CLI? I
> tried using "less" and "nano", but it told me it's a binary file so it's all
> gobbly goop.
>
> I used transmission-create. Thanks for any help.
>
> I posted this same question on Fedora's Forum:
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1469454#post1469454
>
> --
> Marc Ferguson




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