Check for duplicate torrent

[andreapaiola]

Duplicate torrent

https://andreapaiola.name/php-p2p-webtorrent-cdn/multi.php

Uncaught Error: Cannot add duplicate torrent 858155eb96db0008d9e0e720eb20d4db7dd18c77

How can I check if a torrent exists and use it to insert the content in the page? I think that could be useful to insert these in the documentation... thank you!

[feross]

Use client.get(torrentId) to see if the torrent is already part of the client.

https://github.com/feross/webtorrent/blob/master/docs/api.md#clientgettorrentid

[andreapaiola]

yeah, I use it... line 44... it doesn't work...

[feross]

If you add a torrent type that is async, like an http torrent file, then it's not possible for the client to know what the infohash of the torrent is until it has fetched the torrent file (an async operation). So if you call client.add twice with two torrent files that both have the same infohash, you'll get this error.

There's not an easy way for the webtorrent library to fix this issue.

[andreapaiola]

ummm maybe I can check the url of the .torrent file... I'll think about it

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