https://github.com/alexpdev/piecelength

Calculating Ideal Piece Length for .torrent files
https://github.com/alexpdev/piecelength

bencode bittorrent-protocol torrent-files

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Calculating Ideal Piece Length for .torrent files

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/alexpdev/piecelength
• Owner: alexpdev
• License: bsd-2-clause
• Created: 2021-07-27T04:26:36.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-10-25T06:04:14.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-15T20:22:26.692Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: bencode, bittorrent-protocol, torrent-files
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 24.4 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Piece Length

Calculate ideal piece length for .torrent files.

Piece Length(`piecelength`) is a simple package that sole purpose is to calculate

the ideal piece length for the Bittorrent protocol based on the total size of

the torrent contents.  Results are returned in integer form, and will always

be a perfect power of 2.

## Install

The `piecelength` package can be installed from git:

```sh

git clone https://github.com/alexpdev/piecelength.git

cd piecelength

pip install .

```

It is also available on PyPi:

```sh

pip install piecelength

```

## Usage

To use the package as library:

```python

from piecelength import piece_length

size = 100000000 # some integer value

result = piece_length(size)

```

It can also be used from the command line:

```sh

piecelength 3456677434645

```

## License

Licensed with BSD 3 see the LICENSE file for more details.