Features¶

Multiple subcommands:
Torrenttools has multiple subcommands to satisfy all kinds of BitTorrent metafile task. Not only creating torrent files, but also editing and inspecting metafiles is supported.
v2 support:
Torrenttools is ready for the new v2 protocol with support for hybrid and v2-only metafiles.
Multi-threaded hashing:
Generating hashes of data is fully asynchronous to fully leverage fast storage.
Per-file checksums:
Support for multiple checksum algorithms to include a per-file hash inside the BitTorrent metafile. This enables clients to deduplicate or detect common files between different torrents. For the default OpenSSL backend following checksums are supported:
- whirlpool
- ripemd160
- shake256
- shake128
- sha3_512
- sha3_384
- sha3_256
- sha3_224
- sha512
- sha384
- sha256
- sha224
- sha1
- blake2s_256
- blake2b_512
- md5
- md4
Named trackers:
Named trackers allow uploaders to quickly generate metafiles without having to lookup announce urls for different trackers.

Supported BEPS¶

Bittorrent Enhancement proposals that do not have any impact on the metafiles are not shown.

BEP support¶
BEP	Status	Title
03	✅	The BitTorrent Protocol Specification
05	✅	DHT Protocol
09	✅	Extension for Peers to Send Metadata Files
12	✅	Multitracker Metadata Extension
17	✅	HTTP Seeding
19	✅	WebSeed - HTTP/FTP Seeding (GetRight style)
27	✅	Private Torrents
30	❌	Merkle hash torrent extension
35	❌	Torrent Signing
38	✅	Finding Local Data Via Torrent File Hints
39	❌	Updating Torrents Via Feed URL
46	❌	Updating Torrents Via DHT Mutable Items
47	✅	Padding files and extended file attributes
49	❌	Distributed Torrent Feeds
52	✅	The BitTorrent Protocol Specification v2
53	❌	Magnet URI extension - Select specific file indices for download

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