rusty_torrent

A BitTorrent client, written in Rust.

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A BitTorrent client, written in Rust.

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jkeler·Jul 5, 2016

> I also found a Rust implementation which seems not to compile, but is useful as I'm trying to teach myself Rust https://github.com/kenpratt/rusty_torrent I think the work to get it to compile might be minimal. There is also another project in Rust, it looks more active: https://github.com/GGist/bip-rs It is a collection of libraries. > If anyone who hasn't tried doing this before, the "official" BitTorrent spec docs, namely BEP-3 (http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html), seem little more than a vague blog post turned in to a "spec". Doesn't look vague at all. What do you think is missing from it?

In Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C#

mattcopp·Jul 5, 2016

Great work! Quite annoying actually. I finished my own implementation in Python at about 10pm last night, this would have been most useful. I'm no C# coder, but it's nicely readable, and this is a much better write up than I'm sure I could do. If anyone who hasn't tried doing this before, the "official" BitTorrent spec docs, namely BEP-3 (http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html), seem little more than a vague blog post turned in to a "spec". However, somewhat conversely, this has lead to is a wealth of articles describing how to do it. The three guides I used were: - A 2 part blog post which has a bit of a Python bent http://www.kristenwidman.com/blog/33/how-to-write-a-bittorre... - The unofficial specs https://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification, and - An incomplete Python client https://github.com/JosephSalisbury/python-bittorrent

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I didn't know of the RFC mentioned in the post, that would have also been really useful. A lot of BitTorrent stuff for Python is remarkably hard to find in all the noise of Deluge, the original client, and libtorrent wrappers, but none that existed were sophisticated (or at least well documented) enough for my experiments, they have different focuses. I never went as far as implementing my own BEncoder library, a billion seem to exist in multiple languages and install any BitTorrent Python library and it seems to come with their own copy. (I suspect due to the way BEncoder was bundled in the original client, see: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bencode) I also found a Rust implementation which seems not to compile, but is useful as I'm trying to teach myself Rust https://github.com/kenpratt/rusty_torrent I think the work to get it to compile might be minimal.

In Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C#