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Create torrent file from webseed #847

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sandeep048 opened this issue Jun 26, 2016 · 2 comments
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Create torrent file from webseed #847

sandeep048 opened this issue Jun 26, 2016 · 2 comments

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@sandeep048 sandeep048 commented Jun 26, 2016

This is more of a general torrent technology related question.
Is it possible to create a torrent file just from a web-seed, without downloading that file locally.

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@DiegoRBaquero DiegoRBaquero commented Jun 27, 2016

Hi @sandeep048. It's impossible. The .torrent contains the hashes of the pieces and the hash of the whole torrent. Wherever the torrent file is created, that machine must have the files.

I was looking into enabling a way to seed and create .torrent file of web files that are in CORS-enabled served webservers with BTorrent, but I haven't been working on it. Although the process should be straightforward: download with XHR and create .torrent.

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