webtorrent resolve but do not download - FR

[sibiraj-s]

What version of WebTorrent? 0.98.19

What operating system and Node.js version? Windows, Node 8+

What did you expect to happen?

var client = new WebTorrent();
client.resolve(torrentId, function (torrent) {
       console.log(torrent); // torrent information but don't download
});

What actually happened?
this starts downloading file automatically

var client = new WebTorrent();
client.add(torrentId, function (torrent) {
     /* ... */
});

is there any method available to get torrent information including

torrent.torrentFile
torrent.torrentFileBlobURL

feature to not start downloading files automatically will be nice. or am I missing something

[DiegoRBaquero]

The only thing that you could get without actually downloading any data is the metadata of the torrent. Not the files, not the blob url.

resolve is not in the API, so this is not a bug, is a feature request.

[sibiraj-s]

Yes @DiegoRBaquero, that was a feature request. I am not referring that as a bug

As a workaround to get torrent files I am doing this

var torrentInfo;

var newClient = client.add(torrentId, function (torrent) {
     torrentInfo = torrent;  // save torrent info
});

client.on('torrent', function () {
     newClient.destroy(); // once I get the information. 
     // I am destroying the client to stop download
});

[sibiraj-s]

@DiegoRBaquero Any updates on this FR?

[DiegoRBaquero]

I don’t think that anyone is working on this

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[sibiraj-s]

it will be nice to know what are the files that we are going to download. before start downloading. also, we can save that as a .torrent file

[DiegoRBaquero]

can you not do that with the code you posted?

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[sibiraj-s]

yeah, I have been doing that. But that is a cool feature to have. isn't it

[DiegoRBaquero]

It'd be best to have it as another module built on top of the core lib. Feel free to publish your code as a standalone npm module. I'm gonna leave this open for anyone (or you) who wants to build it :)