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BitTorrent client package and utilities in Go

90 points by Spiritus 12y ago

reustle 12y ago
This question comes from not much experience with the bittorrent protocol, but what would it take to use something like this to build an open clone of btsync?
- josephagoss 12y ago
  I wonder if it would be easier building an open source version of btsync 1.4 as 2.0 seems to be a lot more complicated?
- gillianseed 12y ago
  Isn't syncthing https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing, supposed to be an open source alternative to btsync ?
  - aw3c2 12y ago
    It lacks some features (public shares for example) but works pretty well for personal syncing. It does not use torrents.
  - Nux 12y ago
    Sort of, Syncthing it's pretty nice.
- pbnjay 12y ago
  I also have very little low-level bittorrent experience, but the static nature of .torrent files would be tricky. You'd need some sort of snapshotting diffs to convert to .torrent equivalents at regular intervals, right?
- rakoo 12y ago
  As pbnjay says, torrents alone can't be used because they target static content. I'm currently building an OSS alternative of btsync at https://github.com/rakoo/rakoshare https://github.com/rakoo/rakoshare. Basically you can use a torrent to transfer content, but you need to transfer the new torrent itself some other way; I use bittorrent's extension capabilities to do that.
pknerd 12y ago
Seems Github is in maintenance mode.
jzelinskie 12y ago
How mature is this compared to taipei torrent? https://github.com/jackpal/Taipei-Torrent https://github.com/jackpal/Taipei-Torrent Shameless plug: I work on a BitTorrent tracker in Go https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya
jaytaylor 12y ago
What about for the server portion? I'd really like to distribute container images across a cluster of machines via torrent.
- StavrosK 12y ago
  What server portion? The tracker?
  - jaytaylor 12y ago
    Yes, I am thinking of an end-to-end library which you feed input files to and then it handles the distribution to all cluster clients.
    - StavrosK 12y ago
      BitTorrent is just the file transfer protocol, but you could very easily write such a library on top of it.
- puzzlingcaptcha 12y ago
  Have a look at https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya TF run an article about it fairly recently. http://torrentfreak.com/private-anime-torrent-tracker-became-essential-tool-facebook-150216/ http://torrentfreak.com/private-anime-torrent-tracker-became... I posted it here on HN before but it got no interest.

90 points by Spiritus 12y ago

This question comes from not much experience with the bittorrent protocol, but what would it take to use something like this to build an open clone of btsync?

josephagoss 12y ago
I wonder if it would be easier building an open source version of btsync 1.4 as 2.0 seems to be a lot more complicated?
gillianseed 12y ago
Isn't syncthing https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing, supposed to be an open source alternative to btsync ?
- aw3c2 12y ago
  It lacks some features (public shares for example) but works pretty well for personal syncing. It does not use torrents.
- Nux 12y ago
  Sort of, Syncthing it's pretty nice.
pbnjay 12y ago
I also have very little low-level bittorrent experience, but the static nature of .torrent files would be tricky. You'd need some sort of snapshotting diffs to convert to .torrent equivalents at regular intervals, right?
rakoo 12y ago
As pbnjay says, torrents alone can't be used because they target static content. I'm currently building an OSS alternative of btsync at https://github.com/rakoo/rakoshare https://github.com/rakoo/rakoshare. Basically you can use a torrent to transfer content, but you need to transfer the new torrent itself some other way; I use bittorrent's extension capabilities to do that.

pknerd 12y ago

Seems Github is in maintenance mode.

jzelinskie 12y ago

How mature is this compared to taipei torrent? https://github.com/jackpal/Taipei-Torrent https://github.com/jackpal/Taipei-Torrent Shameless plug: I work on a BitTorrent tracker in Go https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya

jaytaylor 12y ago

What about for the server portion? I'd really like to distribute container images across a cluster of machines via torrent.

StavrosK 12y ago
What server portion? The tracker?
- jaytaylor 12y ago
  Yes, I am thinking of an end-to-end library which you feed input files to and then it handles the distribution to all cluster clients.
  - StavrosK 12y ago
    BitTorrent is just the file transfer protocol, but you could very easily write such a library on top of it.
puzzlingcaptcha 12y ago
Have a look at https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya TF run an article about it fairly recently. http://torrentfreak.com/private-anime-torrent-tracker-became-essential-tool-facebook-150216/ http://torrentfreak.com/private-anime-torrent-tracker-became... I posted it here on HN before but it got no interest.