torrentfile 0.9.2
Terminal based command line tool for creating Bittorrent files.
Requires Python: >=3.6
Keywords: Bittorrent,torrent,bittorrent-metafiles,CLI,torrentfile

# TorrentFile

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## 🌐 Overview

A command line interface for creating, reviewing, editing, or verifying bittorrent meta files (`.torrent` files).
_`torrentfile`_ is open source, and supports all versions of Bittorrent files, including hybrid meta files. The code base
is also importable and can easily be used as a library for creating or manipulating torrent files in external projects.
Documentation is available at [https://alexpdev.github.io/torrentfile](https://alexpdev.github.io/torrentfile).

> A GUI frontend for this project can be found at <https://github.com/alexpdev/TorrentfileQt>

## 🔌 Requirements

- Python 3.6+
- Tested on Linux, Windows and Mac

## 💻 Install

**PyPi:**

```bash
pip install torrentfile
```

**Git:**

```bash
git clone https://github.com/alexpdev/torrentfile.git
cd torrentfile
pip install .
```

> Download pre-compiled binaries from the [release page](https://github.com/alexpdev/torrentfile/releases).

## 📚 Documentation

### torrentfile documentation available at [https://alexpdev.github.io/torrentfile](https://alexpdev.github.io/torrentfile)

## 🚀 Usage

![Basic Usage](https://github.com/alexpdev/torrentfile/blob/master/assets/Torrentfile.gif?raw=True)

> Usage examples can be found in the project documentation on the [examples page.](https://alexpdev.github.io/torrentfile/usage)

## 📝 License

Apache Software License v2.0 - See [LICENSE]("https://github.com/alexpdev/torrentfile/blob/master/LICENSE")

## 💡 Issues & Requests & PRs

If you encounter any bugs or would like to request a new feature please open a new issue.
PRs and other contributions that are meaningful and add value to the project are welcome.

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## Usage Examples

### Creating Bittorrent Files

Creating a basic torrent file is as easy as using the create subcommand with the path to the torrent file.

```bash
torrentfile create /path/to/content
```

You can add one or more trackers by using any one of `-a`, `--announce`
flags and listing their URL as a space separated list.

```bash
torrentfile create /path/to/content -a http://tracker1.com http://tracker2.net
```

If you intend to distribute the file on a private tracker then you should use one  
of `-p`, `--private` flags, which tells your Bittorrent clients to disable DHT and  
multitracker protocols.

```bash
torrentfile create /path/to/content --private
```

By default **`torrentfile`** displays a progress bar indicating how much of the content  
has already been processed.  To turn off this display you can either use `--quiet` mode in  
as a global flag or you can set the `--prog` flag to 0.

```bash
torrentfile create /path/to/content --prog 0
```

**`torrentfile`** extracts the name of the contents top level file or directory  
and saves the torrent file to the current working directory with the extracted title.

For example running the follwing command would create `./content.torrent`.

```bash
torrentfile create /path/to/content
```

To specify an alternative path or filename you may use the `-o`, `--out` flags  
followed by the path to the preferred destination.

```bash
torrentfile create /path/to/content -o /some/other/path/torrent.torrent
```

If the path specified is an existing directory, then the torrent file will be
saved to that directory, with same filename as the default top level path name.

For example the following command would create a torrent file at `/some/other/path/content.torrent`.

```bash
torrentfile create /path/to/content -o /some/other/path/
```

_`torrentfile`_ creates Bittorrent v1 files by default. To create a V2 or hybrid (v1 and v2)
torrent file, use the `--meta-version` option followed by the preferred version number option.
The options include:  `1`(v1 default), `2`(v2), or `3`(v1 & v2).

```bash
torrentfile create /path/to/content --meta-version 2
```

```bash
torrentfile create /path/to/content --meta-version 3 
```

`torrentfile` includes the option to command line flags for the `create` sub-command from an `ini` style
configuration file, by using the `--config` and optional `--config-path` options to specify the path
to the configuration file.  If `--config-path` is ommited, then `torrentfile` will look by default in the current
working directory for a file named `torrentfile.ini`. If the file is not discovered in the current working directory,
it will move on to look `~/.torrentfile/torrentfile.ini` followed by `~/.config/torrentfile.ini`.  Please see the
[documentation](https://alexpdev.github.io/torrentfile/overview/) for more details on how the configuration file should be
formatted.

### Check/Recheck Torrent

The `recheck` subcommand allows you to scan a Bittorrent file and compare it's contents,
against a file or directory containing the contents the torrent file was created from.
The output provided by this process gives a detailed perspective if any files are missing
or have been corrupted in any way.  Supports any version of Bittorrent file.

```bash
torrentfile recheck /path/to/some.torrent /path/to/content
```

### Edit Torrent

To edit specific fields of the torrent file, there is the `edit` subcommand.  Using this
subcommand you can specify the field with one of the available field flags, for example
`--announce` and specify the value you wish to change it to.

```bash
torrentfile edit /path/to/content --announce https://new.tracker.url1.com  https://newtracker.url/2
```

You can use the `-h` flag for a full list of available fields that can be edited.

```bash
torrentfile edit -h
```

### Create Magnet

To create a magnet URI for a pre-existing torrent meta file, use the sub-command  
`magnet` with the path to the torrent file.

```bash
torrentfile magnet /path/to/some.torrent
```

### GUI

If you prefer a windowed GUI please check out the official GUI frontend [here](https://github.com/alexpdev/TorrentFileQt)