https://github.com/mafintosh/peerwiki

all of wikipedia on bittorrent
https://github.com/mafintosh/peerwiki

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all of wikipedia on bittorrent

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mafintosh/peerwiki
• Owner: mafintosh
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-09-03T09:29:49.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-02-09T21:48:23.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-22T20:33:18.772Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 1.93 MB
• Stars: 314
• Watchers: 11
• Forks: 16
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# peerwiki

BROWSE ALL OF WIKIPEDIA USING BITTORENT

```

npm install -g peerwiki

```

## Usage

```

peerwiki 9090 # starts a peerwiki server on port 9090

```

To get more debug output do

```

DEBUG=peerwiki peerwiki 9090

```

This can useful the first time you start browsing since it needs to some download some shared static assets which can result in a added latency

To use a pregenerated index (will speed up page load) do

```

peerwiki 9090 --use-index

```

And open a browser on [http://localhost:9090/BitTorrent](http://localhost:9090/BitTorrent)

## Cache

When downloading articles they are cached on your local file system in `./peerwiki`.

## Programmatic usage

``` js

var peerwiki = require('peerwiki')

var wiki = peerwiki(function() {

  // wiki is ready

  // fetch the BitTorrent article metadata from other peers

  wiki.findEntryByUrl('html/B/i/t/T/BitTorrent', function(err, result) {

    console.log(result)

  })

  // fetch the actual article from other peers

  wiki.findBlobByUrl('html/B/i/t/T/BitTorrent', function(err, buf) {

    console.log(buf)

  })

  wiki.listen(9091) // listen for p2p connections on port 9091

})

```

## License

MIT