https://github.com/vfk/swiftybencode

A general purpose bencode decoder written in Swift 3
https://github.com/vfk/swiftybencode

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A general purpose bencode decoder written in Swift 3

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/vfk/swiftybencode
• Owner: VFK
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-02-01T14:48:20.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-02-05T17:32:13.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-07-08T22:03:09.237Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: bencode, swift, swift-3, swift-library, swift-package-manager, torrent
• Language: Swift
• Size: 13.7 KB
• Stars: 9
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
# SwiftyBencode [![GitHub release](https://img.shields.io/github/release/VFK/SwiftyBencode.svg)](https://github.com/VFK/SwiftyBencode/releases) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/VFK/SwiftyBencode.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/VFK/SwiftyBencode)

> A general purpose [bencode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode) decoder written in Swift 3

## Usage

```swift

Bencode.decode(data: Data) throws -> BencodeResult

```

### BencodeResult

```swift

BencodeResult.integer -> Int?

BencodeResult.string -> String?

BencodeResult.list -> [BencodeResult]?

BencodeResult.dictionary -> [String: BencodeResult]?

// hexadecimal representation of swift Data.

BencodeResult.hexString -> String? // Data(bytes: [0, 1, 127, 128, 255]) -> 00017f80ff

```

### Decoding torrent file

```swift

import Bencode

let url: URL = 

let data = try! Data(contentsOf: url!)

do {

  let result = try Bencode.decode(data: data)

  if let announce = result.dictionary?["announce"]?.string {

    print(announce)

  }

  if let announceList = result.dictionary?["announce"]?.list {

    // announceList is [BencodeResult]

    for item in announceList {

      print(item.string!)

    }

  }

  if let creationDate = result.dictionary?["creation date"]?.integer {

    print(creationDate)

  }

} catch BencodeDecodeError.invalidFormat {

} catch {

}

```

## Installation

### Swift Package Manager

```swift

import PackageDescription

let package = Package(

  <...>

  dependencies: [

    .Package(url: "https://github.com/VFK/SwiftyBencode.git", majorVersion: 0, minor: 2)

  ]

  <...>

)

```