Could you make parseTorrent available?

[jimmywarting]

What browser and version? (if using WebTorrent in the browser)
0.100.0

Hi, I was wondering if the parseTorrent could be publicly available throught webtorrent
I'm looking for a way to identify if what the client are adding is a torrent or not. would be useful to have something like .isTorrent(x)

// index.js
WebTorrent.parseTorrent = parseTorrent

[DiegoRBaquero]

Ummmm, but if you add an invalid torrent, you get an error, isn't that enough?

[jimmywarting]

I would prefer if it was syncron, I have a input where they can add two different things.
Could be a torrent or just regular chitchat text.

Atm i have ripped out the thing I'm most interested from that package which is
this 3 regex:

if (
  /^(stream-)?magnet:/.test(str) || 
  /^[a-f0-9]{40}$/i.test(str) ||
  /^[a-z2-7]{32}$/i.test(str) {
) {
  // Do something torrent related
} else {
  // Do something completely different 
}

Which i just combined into one regex: /(^(stream-)?magnet:|^[a-f0-9]{40}$|^[a-z2-7]{32}$)/
It might be just enough, So I will not be disappointed if parseTorrent don't become available, but still wonder if there is some public intrest in having something like .isTorrent(x)

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Edit: And I don't want url's to be tested by client.add(str) therefore i don't want to try to add everything i get from the input

[KayleePop]

Can't you just require it separately and use browserify?

const WebTorrent = require('webtorrent')
const parseTorrent = require('parse-torrent')

const client = new WebTorrent()

function isTorrent (id) {
  try {
    parseTorrent(id)
    return true
  } catch (e) {
    return false
  }
}

if (isTorrent(x)) {
  client.add(x)
}

[jimmywarting]

Rather use my one regex

[DiegoRBaquero]

Are you using the hosted minified version? Trying to understand the use case

[jimmywarting]

Yes

[DiegoRBaquero]

I don't see no harm, I'll take a PR

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