[CLOSED] Cache / storage

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Issue by iamale
Saturday May 17, 2014 at 16:12 GMT
Originally opened as https://github.com/feross/bittorrent-client/issues/14

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This one might be considered either a feature request or a question.

Is there any way to store downloaded files somewhere and seed them back?

[feross]

Comment by fisch0920
Saturday May 17, 2014 at 20:53 GMT

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Kind of :)

bittorrent-client needs to run in the browser, so it can't store the files to the filesystem. The webtorrent executable, however, is meant to be run out of the browser, so it's the correct place to put storage to filesystem logic. The latest non-merged version in the webtorrent repo has this working.

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Comment by feross
Monday May 19, 2014 at 02:25 GMT

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Yep, Travis is right. You need to use the webtorrent package if you want the file to be automatically saved to disk.

$ npm install webtorrent -g
$ webtorrent --help

If you use bittorrent-client directly, it will still automatically do seeding for you, but you will need to write the code to save the file to disk.

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Comment by iamale
Monday May 19, 2014 at 15:06 GMT

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👍 Thanks!