Seeding files AND torrent

[mitra42]

I’m trying to find out how to use WebTorrent (or Bittorrent) to seed files downloaded by other means.
The logic would be that I’ve got a subset of the files, and a torrent file, in a directory, and I want to add them into WebTorrent or BitTorrent.

This will be running in somewhat bandwidth constrained situations, so in this case I have to avoid downloading the rest of the files in the Torrent.

I was assuming that I'd pass the torrent to WebTorrent along with a place to find the files references, bit looking at https://webtorrent.io/docs and the code, it seems that:

• client.add() isn’t appropriate because this starts downloading the rest of the files
• client.seed(folder) isn’t appropriate because it will recreate the torrentfile which I already have

Am I missing something ?

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[mitra42]

This was solved by @jhiesey when he came over.

@jhiesey - did the changes you made make it into the default release ?

[mitra42]

@jhiesey I'm still trying to figure this out ? Our dweb-mirror is currently running off your #rescan branch and not sure if I can switch back to the main branch yet?

[jhiesey]

Sorry, I never got this upstreamed. That's entirely my fault. I'll get that fixed this weekend!

[mitra42]

Thanks ... trying to tie up some loose ends before Dweb camp, and would love to be showing webtorrent p2p between clients with the master coming from an anaemic RPI :-)

[mitra42]

Any luck ?

[jhiesey]

PR is here: #1650 I could merge it myself but I'd like someone else to take a look. I'll bug @feross

[mitra42]

Thanks

[jhiesey]

Finally released in webtorrent 0.105.0

[mitra42]

Thanks - I'll switch to that release

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