There is no method to stop the download process in the middle except by using Ctrl+D, Ctrl+C somehow fails to stop the process. On pressing Ctrl+C, The terminal returns to

$

and quickly jumps back to something like

Connected to 1/44 peers
Connected to 1/47 peers

and continues the download

Mac OS X Mavericks

It would be swell if I could run a command like

torrent "http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.10/ubuntu-14.10-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent"

and have it grab the torrent file and act as though I had passed in the torrent locally.

This accepts a torrent-file from stdin downloading or seeding. Before, this was already possible with the info and ls command, this extends this support to cover all operations.

The dependency on parse-torrent has been bumped to a version that actually throws errors. It was previously wrapped in a try catch even though it returned null instead of throwing an error.

This command uses create-torrent to create torrent files. If you want to create a torrent file for a directory xyz/, you can just do:

torrent create xyz/ -o xyz.torrent

If -o isn't specified, the torrent file is written to stdout. I also added a usage.txt that is displayed when you torrent --help.

Some magnet links might have .torrent in their URL for other reasons than being a .torrent file on disk.

Before this patch:

$ torrent 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:77e1a18941186c1e6441721df91183d2a339d103&dn=Citizenfour%5FEdward-Snowden%5FLaura-Poitras&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.com%3A2710%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fannounce.torrentsmd.com%3A8080%2Fannounce.php'

fs.js:439
  return binding.open(pathModule._makeLong(path), stringToFlags(flags), mode);
                 ^
Error: ENAMETOOLONG, name too long 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:77e1a18941186c1e6441721df91183d2a339d103&dn=Citizenfour%5FEdward-Snowden%5FLaura-Poitras&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.com%3A2710%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fannounce.torrentsmd.com%3A8080%2Fannounce.php'
    at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:439:18)
    at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:290:15)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/substack/projects/torrent/cli.js:116:52)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)
    at node.js:929:3

After this patch:

$ torrent 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:77e1a18941186c1e6441721df91183d2a339d103&dn=Citizenfour%5FEdward-Snowden%5FLaura-Poitras&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.com%3A2710%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fannounce.torrentsmd.com%3A8080%2Fannounce.php'
2 files in torrent
Citizenfour_Edward-Snowden_Laura-Poitras.mp4
README.txt
Connected to 19/35 peers
Downloaded 18.69 MB (1.17 MB/s)
Uploaded 0 B (0 B/s)
Torrent Size 3.64 GB

Complete: 0.5138%
[                    ]
0%    25   50   75   100%

Estimated 1 hour, 9 minutes and 44 seconds remaining

Adds an estimated time remaining to console log. The algorithm goes something like this: (TimeTaken / bytesDownloaded) * bytesLeft = timeLeft

It seems to work pretty well.

Hi there!

I wonder if there is a way to make any notification on torrent finishing the download, or maybe an option to quit program after download is complete.

Thank you in advance!

Running npm i on master yields:

[email protected]: Critical security issue fixed in 5.1.3. 
All users should upgrade. (More info: https://github.com/feross/bittorrent-dht/issues/87)

This PR bumps torrent-stream version to address this security issue.

Bump for the torrent deps following the recommendation here https://github.com/feross/create-torrent/issues/10

Because of this fix https://github.com/feross/parse-torrent-file/commit/8a442364fef4a9c6bc10707262988129c32ce12c

The seed logic was passing source previously, which was just the literal string "seed". This patch fixes torrent seed to use infile instead.

$ torrent seed auckland.torrent 
/home/substack/projects/torrent/node_modules/torrent-stream/index.js:69
    if (!link || !link.infoHash) throw new Error('You must pass a valid torrent o
                                       ^
Error: You must pass a valid torrent or magnet link
    at torrentStream (/home/substack/projects/torrent/node_modules/torrent-stream/index.js:69:37)
    at module.exports (/home/substack/projects/torrent/index.js:6:16)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/substack/projects/torrent/cli.js:112:12)
    at Module._compile (module.js:460:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:355:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:501:10)
    at startup (node.js:129:16)
    at node.js:814:3

Fixes syntax errors that my JavaScript linter caught. But more importantly, it adds total bytes of the torrent being downloaded, and calculates percent complete.

I was doing the NodeSchool's tutorial "torrential", which uses this library, but a DeprecationWarning error occurred when I was creating a torrent file of a folder of two .txt documents.

I retried multiple times. I am on Windows10 with Node.js v8.9.1.

Here is a screenshot of the error:

According to torrent --help:

Commands:

torrent            <torrent>
torrent seed       <torrent>
torrent info       <torrent>
torrent ls         <torrent>
torrent create     <directory OR file> {-o outfile.torrent}

`<torrent>` above can be a magnet link, a path to .torrent file or `-` for STDIN

However, supplying a magnet link for seed, info, or ls produces errors.

Hi @maxogden, I really liked using this module. I would like to know if there is a way to list the amount of file downloaded from each peer, using this module.

So far. I did not find anything in the README itself.

Or, is it something the bittorrent tracker server or dht would provide?

Connected to 6/7 peers
Downloaded 432.73 kB (133.15 kB/s)
Uploaded 0 B (0 B/s)
Torrent Size 399.96 kB

Complete: 100%
[=====================]
0%    25   50   75   100%

Estimated  remaining
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/torrent/cli.js:186
        progressBar = progressBar + Array(20 + 1 - progressBar.length).join(' ')
                                    ^

RangeError: Invalid array length
    at status [as _repeat] (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/torrent/cli.js:186:37)
    at wrapper [as _onTimeout] (timers.js:264:19)
    at Timer.listOnTimeout (timers.js:92:15)