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README
torrent.cr 
A BitTorrent client library written in pure Crystal.
Do note that this shard is currently in BETA.
Installation
Add this to your application's shard.yml:
dependencies:
torrent:
github: Papierkorb/torrent
Usage
Please see bin/ for example applications.
What's missing?
- Improve architecture
- Improve performance (Seeding is fine, leeching is expensive)
- Smarter leech and seed strategies
- Tons of other things
- The planned BEPs
- More tests (Figure out how to best test networking code)
Implemented BEPs
The index of all BEPs can be found at http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0000.html
- BEP-0003: The BitTorrent Protocol Specification
- BEP-0005: DHT Protocol (Experimental)
- BEP-0006: Fast Extension
- BEP-0010: Extension Protocol
- BEP-0011: Peer Exchange (PEX)
- BEP-0015: UDP Tracker Protocol for BitTorrent (Except for scraping)
- BEP-0020: Peer ID Conventions
- BEP-0023: Tracker Returns Compact Peer Lists
- BEP-0027: Private Torrents
- BEP-0041: UDP Tracker Protocol Extensions
- BEP-0048: Tracker Protocol Extension: Scrape
Planned
- BEP-0009: Extension for Peers to Send Metadata Files
- BEP-0040: Canonical Peer Priority
All entries are in ascending order of their BEP number
Contributing
- Fork it ( https://github.com/Papierkorb/torrent.cr/fork )
- Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
- Write tests
- Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
- Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
- Create a new Pull Request
Contributors
- Papierkorb Stefan Merettig - creator, maintainer
Disclaimer
The authors of this library are in no way responsible for any copyright infiringements caused by using this library or software using this library. There are many legitimate use-cases for torrents outside of piracy. This library was written with the intention to be used for such legal purposes.
License
This library is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 ("MPL-2").
For a copy of the full license text see the included LICENSE file.
For a legally non-binding explanation visit: tl;drLegal
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the torrent README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.