bencview - a .torrent files viewer for terminal pagers.
json2bencode - a converter from JSON to the torrent files format.
(Bencode is a data serialization format used by the BitTorrent network.)
(Ruby 2.3.0+)
$ gem install bencview
Add to your lesspipe.sh:
case "$1" in
...
*.torrent) bencview "$1" ;;
...
esac
Optionally:
$ npm -g i json
View a torrent file:
$ bencview gimp.torrent
*info-hash: a85b7e7f035c55f684238d0e252b273fe2a1ccf5
*uri: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:a85b7e7f035c55f684238d0e252b273fe2a1ccf5&dn=gimp-2.8.14-setup-1.exe
announce: udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80
announce-list: 2
udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80
udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80
comment: GIMP 2.8.14 Installer for Microsoft Windows - updated
created by: mktorrent 1.0
creation date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 22:05:50 +0000
url-list: 34
http://gimper.net/downloads/pub/gimp/v2.8/windows
http://gimp.afri.cc/pub/gimp/v2.8/windows
[...]
info/name: gimp-2.8.14-setup-1.exe
info/pieces: 351 x 262,144
info/files: 1
91,931,728 gimp-2.8.14-setup-1.exe
info/*files size: 91,931,728
Properties prefixed w/ '*' don't exist in the torrent file.
Remove all trackers from it:
$ bencview -j gimp.torrent | json -e 'delete this.announce; delete this["announce-list"]' | json2bencode > file.torrent
$ file file.torrent
file.torrent: BitTorrent file
$ bencview file.torrent
*info-hash: a85b7e7f035c55f684238d0e252b273fe2a1ccf5
*uri: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:a85b7e7f035c55f684238d0e252b273fe2a1ccf5&dn=gimp-2.8.14-setup-1.exe
comment: GIMP 2.8.14 Installer for Microsoft Windows - updated
created by: mktorrent 1.0
creation date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 22:05:50 +0000
url-list: 34
http://gimper.net/downloads/pub/gimp/v2.8/windows
http://gimp.afri.cc/pub/gimp/v2.8/windows
[...]
info/name: gimp-2.8.14-setup-1.exe
info/pieces: 351 x 262,144
info/files: 1
91,931,728 gimp-2.8.14-setup-1.exe
info/*files size: 91,931,728
Note that the infohash hasn't changed.
This is a complete rewrite of the original
bencview-0.0.x. bencview_clean util is gone, for bencview can
export torrent files into JSON.
1.0.0 version is also ~2 times smaller.
- Both utils assume the UTF8 locale.
MIT.