Description:

torfcli 5.2.1

torf-cli is a command line tool that can create, read and edit torrent files and
magnet URIs. It can also verify a file system path against a torrent and provide
detailed errors. When creating a torrent, it can find an existing torrent with
the same files and copy its piece hashes to the freshly created torrent to avoid
hashing the files again.
The output is pleasant to read for humans or easy to parse with common CLI
tools.
An optional configuration file specifies custom default options and profiles
that combine commonly used options.
Documentation is available as a man page, or you can read it here.
The only dependencies are torf and pyxdg.

Examples
Create private torrent with two trackers and a specific creation date:
$ torf ./docs -t http://bar:123/announce -t http://baz:321/announce \
--private --date '2020-03-31 21:23:42'
Name docs
Size 74.43 KiB
Created 2020-03-31 21:23:42
Created By torf 3.1.0
Private yes
Trackers http://bar:123/announce
http://baz:321/announce
Piece Size 16 KiB
Piece Count 5
File Count 3
Files docs
├─torf.1 [14.53 KiB]
├─torf.1.asciidoc [10.56 KiB]
└─torf.1.html [49.34 KiB]
Progress 100.00 % | 0:00:00 total | 72.69 MiB/s
Info Hash 0a9dfcf07feb2a82da11b509e8929266d8510a02
Magnet magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0a9dfcf07feb2a82da11b509e8929266d8510a02&dn=docs&xl=76217&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbar%3A123%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbaz%3A321%2Fannounce
Torrent docs.torrent
Display information about an existing torrent:
$ torf -i docs.torrent
Name docs
Info Hash 0a9dfcf07feb2a82da11b509e8929266d8510a02
Size 74.43 KiB
Created 2020-03-31 21:23:42
Created By torf 3.1.0
Private yes
Trackers http://bar:123/announce
http://baz:321/announce
Piece Size 16 KiB
Piece Count 5
File Count 3
Files docs
├─torf.1 [14.53 KiB]
├─torf.1.asciidoc [10.56 KiB]
└─torf.1.html [49.34 KiB]
Magnet magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0a9dfcf07feb2a82da11b509e8929266d8510a02&dn=docs&xl=76217&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbar%3A123%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbaz%3A321%2Fannounce
Quickly add a comment to an existing torrent:
$ torf -i docs.torrent --comment 'Forgot to add this comment.' -o docs.revised.torrent
Name docs
Info Hash 0a9dfcf07feb2a82da11b509e8929266d8510a02
Size 74.43 KiB
Comment Forgot to add this comment.
Created 2020-03-31 21:23:42
Created By torf 3.1.0
Private yes
Trackers http://bar:123/announce
http://baz:321/announce
Piece Size 16 KiB
Piece Count 5
File Count 3
Files docs
├─torf.1 [14.53 KiB]
├─torf.1.asciidoc [10.56 KiB]
└─torf.1.html [49.34 KiB]
Magnet magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0a9dfcf07feb2a82da11b509e8929266d8510a02&dn=docs&xl=76217&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbar%3A123%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbaz%3A321%2Fannounce
Torrent docs.revised.torrent
Verify the files in docs:
$ <edit torf.1.html>
$ torf -i docs.revised.torrent docs
Name docs
Info Hash 0a9dfcf07feb2a82da11b509e8929266d8510a02
Size 74.43 KiB
Comment Forgot to add this comment.
Created 2020-03-31 21:23:42
Created By torf 3.1.0
Private yes
Trackers http://bar:123/announce
http://baz:321/announce
Piece Size 16 KiB
Piece Count 5
File Count 3
Files docs
├─torf.1 [14.53 KiB]
├─torf.1.asciidoc [10.56 KiB]
└─torf.1.html [49.34 KiB]
Path docs
Info Hash 0a9dfcf07feb2a82da11b509e8929266d8510a02
Error docs/torf.1.html: Too big: 50523 instead of 50522 bytes
Error Corruption in piece 2, at least one of these files is corrupt:
docs/torf.1.asciidoc
docs/torf.1.html
Progress 100.00 % | 0:00:00 total | 72.69 MiB/s
torf: docs does not satisfy docs.revised.torrent
Get a list of files via grep and cut:
$ torf -i docs.revised.torrent | grep '^Files' | cut -f2-
docs/torf.1 docs/torf.1.asciidoc docs/torf.1.html
# Files are delimited by a horizontal tab (``\t``)
Get a list of files via jq:
$ torf -i docs.revised.torrent --json | jq .Files
[
"docs/torf.1",
"docs/torf.1.asciidoc",
"docs/torf.1.html"
]
Get metainfo as JSON:
$ torf -i docs.revised.torrent -m
{
"announce": "http://bar:123/announce",
"announce-list": [
[
"http://bar:123/announce"
],
[
"http://baz:321/announce"
]
],
"comment": "Forgot to add this comment.",
"created by": "torf 3.1.0",
"creation date": 1585682622,
"info": {
"name": "docs",
"piece length": 16384,
"private": 1,
"files": [
{
"length": 14877,
"path": [
"torf.1"
]
},
{
"length": 10818,
"path": [
"torf.1.asciidoc"
]
},
{
"length": 50522,
"path": [
"torf.1.html"
]
}
]
}
}


Installation
The latest release is available on PyPI
and on AUR.

pipx
The easiest and cleanest installation method is pipx, which installs each application with all
dependencies in a separate virtual environment in ~/.local/venvs/ and links
the executable to ~/.local/bin/.
$ pipx install torf-cli
$ pipx upgrade torf-cli
$ pipx uninstall torf-cli # Also removes dependencies
The only drawback is that, at the time of writing, pipx doesn’t make the man
page available, but it’s also available here.


pip
The alternative is regular pip, but if you
decide to uninstall, you have to manually uninstall the dependencies.
$ pip3 install torf-cli # Installs system-wide (/usr/local/)
$ pip3 install --user torf-cli # Installs in your home (~/.local/)
The latest development version is
available on GitHub in the master branch.
$ pip3 install [--user] git+https://github.com/rndusr/torf-cli.git



Contributing
Bug reports and feature requests are welcome in the issue tracker.


License
torf-cli is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

License

For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.

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