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That's not how torrents work. You can't connect to a port on a seeder and get a list of torrents it's seeding. Even for trackers, you have to request a specific
by Scaevolus 12y ago
That's not how torrents work. You can't connect to a port on a seeder and get a list of torrents it's seeding. Even for trackers, you have to request a specific URL to get a (partial) list of available seeders.
- pvnick 12y agoOh I see, please forgive my ignorance of the torrent protocol. I was under the (apparently mistaken) impression that, like Napster, one could enumerate a user's shared files simply by knowing their IP.
- sanxiyn 12y agoOn the other hand, it is easy to crawl DHT. "Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit" (2010) says "We find that we can establish a search engine with over one million torrents in under two hours using a single desktop PC".