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rusty99

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Registered: 2009-03-18

Posts: 253

Edit .torrent files [solved]

Does anyone know of a cli app that cleanly handles editing .torrent files or is this doable in rtorrent somehow? rutorrent seems to handle it ok on my seedbox.
The reason I ask is, a site I'm a member of encourages long term seeding which is set by interval=n at the end of the tracker info, ie

https://xxxxxx.xx/announce.php?passkey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&interval=1

I've tried transmission which will edit the .torrent but it adds an id hash, shown in the top example below, whereas I want to be like the second example.

ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/iso/2009.08/archlinux-2009.08-netinstall-x86_64.iso90fe4805a22c8f8c.torrent 
instead of 
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/iso/2009.08/archlinux-2009.08-netinstall-x86_64.iso.torrent

Last edited by rusty99 (2009-12-14 15:04:53)

Dheart

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Re: Edit .torrent files [solved]

Wouldn't sed work? I've never used it, nor am I familiar with the syntax, but it sure sounds like the application you're looking for.
Have fun with the man pages or ask someone to figure out the exact command for you.

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kazuo

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From: São Paulo/Brazil

Registered: 2008-03-18

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Re: Edit .torrent files [solved]

To parse bencode I use http://pypi.python.org/pypi/BitTorrent-bencode/5.0.8 is a python package, I use it interactively with ipython

rusty99

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Registered: 2009-03-18

Posts: 253

Re: Edit .torrent files [solved]

To parse bencode I use http://pypi.python.org/pypi/BitTorrent-bencode/5.0.8 is a python package, I use it interactively with ipython

That looks decent, thanks.