Seed file from Google Drive to webtorrent?

[wdfsinap]

is it possible to seed file from Google Drive as Drive has unlimited storage as backup and good network? how about if mount the Drive on the VPS

[vaguiners]

Jesus Christ, i come here just to ask the same thing. Are you me?

[vaguiners]

A "direct" connection to google drive, with the public link, is something really niiice

[DiegoRBaquero]

If the content can be hotlinked, then it can be used as a webseed :)

[fredsif]

I thought you had to create a torrent for the file to have it webseeded?
How can you do that with Google Drive?

[jimmywarting]

It would be cool if you could construct your own WebSeed with custom get mechanism.

Everything isn't as simple as a GET request with range header

Some require credentials, you might be dealing with streams coming from a socket (Google FireStore) or other storage that don't play nice with easy hot linking. Perhaps the file isn't as well mapped as a file hierarchy maybe the file is only accessible by a hash/id identifier, you could build something that uses ftp, afp, smb protocol.

Something like this

peer = new WebSeed({
  async get(pieceIndex, offset, length) {
    const blob_or_arraybufer = await getPiece(...args)
    return blob_or_arraybufer
  }
  destroy() {
  }
}, torrent)

you could then implement a WebSeed using any cloud storage API

Or to make any hybrid torrent client to a WebSeed (#1475, #325)

[datnv-ibl]

Note that google drive have several limitations: request limit, download limit, quota limit and CORS

[DiegoRBaquero]

@fredsif you have to pre-create the torrent with the file. See https://hackernoon.com/how-to-create-a-swarm-cdn-for-free-with-webtorrent-bfa09d193f71

if Google Drive doesn't support CORS there's nothing we can do.