https://github.com/gromnitsky/bencview

View .torrent files; JSON export/import
https://github.com/gromnitsky/bencview

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View .torrent files; JSON export/import

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gromnitsky/bencview
• Owner: gromnitsky
• Created: 2010-12-31T13:34:13.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-04-17T19:49:06.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-25T20:04:35.670Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: torrent
• Language: Ruby
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• Size: 200 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# bencview

`bencview` - a .torrent files viewer for terminal pagers.\

`json2bencode` - a converter from JSON to the torrent files format.

(Bencode is a data serialization format used by the BitTorrent network.)

## Installation

(Ruby 2.3.0+)

	$ gem install bencview

Add to your `lesspipe.sh`:


case "$1" in

...

    *.torrent) bencview "$1" ;;

...

esac



Optionally:

	$ npm -g i json

## Usage

View a torrent file:

~~~

$ bencview gimp.torrent

*info-hash: a85b7e7f035c55f684238d0e252b273fe2a1ccf5

*uri: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:a85b7e7f035c55f684238d0e252b273fe2a1ccf5&dn=gimp-2.8.14-setup-1.exe

announce: udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80

announce-list: 2

 udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80

 udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80

comment: GIMP 2.8.14 Installer for Microsoft Windows - updated

created by: mktorrent 1.0

creation date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 22:05:50 +0000

url-list: 34

 http://gimper.net/downloads/pub/gimp/v2.8/windows

 http://gimp.afri.cc/pub/gimp/v2.8/windows

 [...]

info/name: gimp-2.8.14-setup-1.exe

info/pieces: 351 x 262,144

info/files: 1

 91,931,728 gimp-2.8.14-setup-1.exe

info/*files size: 91,931,728

~~~

Properties prefixed w/ '*' don't exist in the torrent file.

Remove all trackers from it:

~~~

$ bencview -j gimp.torrent | json -e 'delete this.announce; delete this["announce-list"]' | json2bencode > file.torrent

$ file file.torrent

file.torrent: BitTorrent file

$ bencview file.torrent

*info-hash: a85b7e7f035c55f684238d0e252b273fe2a1ccf5

*uri: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:a85b7e7f035c55f684238d0e252b273fe2a1ccf5&dn=gimp-2.8.14-setup-1.exe

comment: GIMP 2.8.14 Installer for Microsoft Windows - updated

created by: mktorrent 1.0

creation date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 22:05:50 +0000

url-list: 34

 http://gimper.net/downloads/pub/gimp/v2.8/windows

 http://gimp.afri.cc/pub/gimp/v2.8/windows

 [...]

info/name: gimp-2.8.14-setup-1.exe

info/pieces: 351 x 262,144

info/files: 1

 91,931,728 gimp-2.8.14-setup-1.exe

info/*files size: 91,931,728

~~~

Note that the infohash hasn't changed.

## History

This is a complete rewrite of the original

bencview-0.0.x. `bencview_clean` util is gone, for `bencview` can

export torrent files into JSON.

1.0.0 version is also ~2 times smaller.

## Bugs

* Both utils assume the UTF8 locale.

## License

MIT.