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Magnet is a URI scheme standard for Magnet links, which mainly refer to resources available for download via peer-to-peer networks.

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How do BitTorrent magnet links work?

For the first time I used a magnet link. Curious about how it works, I looked up the specs and didn't find any answers. The wiki says xt means "exact topic" and is followed by the format (btih in this case) with a SHA1 hash. I saw base32 mentioned,…
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How to get the first peer from a torrent-magnet link?

I've been trying to understand the torrent-magnet technology, but I can't seem to figure out how you get connected to the first peer when opening a magnet link. When you get a magnet link like below, it contains no initial peer - only the BitTorrent…
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How PEX protocol (Magnetic links) finds it first IP?

I'm trying to understand how can a magnetic link work, as I've read they use DHT and PEX to get the peers, but if I'm a new node in the network how can I find peers with only the hash of the file?! Doesn't it always require a link to a known…
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Given a .torrent file how do I generate a magnet link in python?

I need a way to convert .torrents into magnet links. Would like a way to do so in python. Are there any libraries that already do this?
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Downloading a Torrent with libtorrent-python

I have the following python code: import libtorrent as lt import time ses = lt.session() ses.listen_on(6881, 6891) params = { 'save_path': '/home/downloads/', 'storage_mode': lt.storage_mode_t(2), 'paused': False, 'auto_managed':…
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MonoTorrent magnet link download does not start

I strongly believe that MonoTorrent library can do this, but it is probably due to the lack of documentation that I haven't been able to get it working. To start with, MonoTorrent seems to be able to successfully download original torrents by using…
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creating daemon using Python libtorrent for fetching meta data of 100k+ torrents

I am trying to fetch meta data of around 10k+ torrents per day using python libtorrent. This is the current flow of code Start libtorrent Session. Get total counts of torrents we need metadata for uploaded within last 1 day. get torrent hashes from…
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Loading Magnet LINK using Rasterbar libtorrent in Python

How would one load a Magnet link via rasterbar libtorrent python binding?
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Resolve metadata of a torrent from the hash (or the magnet link)? Ideally in python

I'm trying to take a magnet link (ie. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:640FE84C613C17F663551D218689A64E8AEBEABE) and fetch the metadata for it (title, files, comment, whatever else comes with a .torrent file). Ideally in python, but I'll take any info I can get
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Hash calculation in torrent clients

I was wondering if someone knows what a "hash" in a BitTorrent client is referring to, it is clearly not the hashcode of the file, but something different. I think thats more a magnet link to a file, but how is this connected to the file itself? I…
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Any way to verifiy a magnet link (Javascript)

Possibly an odd question, but I'm sure someone has thought of it before :) I'm wondering if it's at all possible to verify a given string as being a theoretically valid Magnet link, using JS. Not particularly bothered about opening the link etc.…
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MonoTorrent - Magnet link to Torrent file

Is there a way to generate .torrent file from a magnet link using the MonoTorrent .Net library? If so can someone explain with an example? I searched the site as well as googled but cant find a solution. if it is not possible are there any other…
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Generate a torrent/magnet link from a single file in a torrent collection

I was wondering if it is possible, having a torrent collection (IE a torrent containing multiple files) to extract a single one, generating an almost new torrent/magnet link to download only that single file but using the same source (announce,…
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perl regex matching infohash from magnet link

im trying to extract an info hash from a torrent magnet link using perls regex the magnet link looks like:…
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decoding magnet uri from coppersurfer.tk scrape file

i try to decode the hash to build magnet uri from scrape file (downloaded from coppersurfer.tk site) after splitting the huge file i try to decode the hash file hash = hashlib.sha1(f).hexdigest() # hash info and gotten list such…
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