Torrent file format specification

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Scripts to automatically harvest results are strictly prohibited due to performance reasons and will result in your IP being banned from this website. Enter any file extension without dot e. What is torrent file? How to open torrent files? File type specification: Internet related file type torrent file icon:. How to convert: File with file extension torrent can't be converted into another file format. A VPN will allow you to unblock every torrent site and also keep you safe and anonymous when torrenting.

VPNs encrypt your data traffic and hide your IP address and identity. One of our personal favorites is NordVPN. These are the best torrent sites still on the market, and you can access any one of them to find your favorite files. Download speed is the average speed for downloading torrents from a certain site. While that information is reliable only as a ballpark reference, keep in mind that this will vary a lot based on the torrent itself, as well as your internet connection.

Library size will be included for websites whenever possible. Torrent type and variety are also important when choosing which torrent sites to use. Ad intrusion is also important when deciding what torrent site to use. If you have to go through eight ads just to browse for a file, it might be time to find a new torrent site. In our research, there were about 3 to 4 popular torrent sites that we decided not to include due to the ad intrusion level.

Security is very important when downloading torrents. After all, there are plenty of shady torrenting platforms on the internet that could compromise your online security. Website: Visit a working Pirate Bay Mirror. Attention: The Pirate Bay is blocked in many countries even mirror sites , so you might need a VPN to change your virtual location and unblock the Pirate Bay.

The Pirate Bay has been a crowd favorite for many years. However, considering the number of mirrors and blocking attempts, that number may be skewed , and 20 to 60 million visits a month is perhaps a bit more accurate. The Pirate Bay is popular for its large community, which ensures at least one seeder on almost any torrent on the site, no matter the age.

We tried downloading obscure titles from even over a decade ago, and we found that there were still happy seeders to help out. You can also look at our list of Pirate Bay alternatives for more options.

RARBG is a large directory of torrents, famous for a very active community of seeders and high-quality torrents. Its library size is decent, and it gets updated often, meaning that you have a high chance of finding new torrents on the site. The only difference is that ad intrusion is more annoying on RARBG, so take that into account when choosing one of the two. There are a lot of phishing scams going around with RARBG-looking sites, so make sure you learn about secure browsing. Website: X website.

Some people use it to browse for game torrents as well, but from our research, it does look like both RARBG and The Pirate Bay have more torrents in that category, especially for older titles. A few years ago, X was a bad choice for torrenting since it was clunky to navigate and it posed a lot of security risks. Since then, it went through an entire site revamp , making it seamless to browse and a lot safer.

For shows and movies, you also have improved browsing functionalities, like searching by award nomination. The creators only make money through bitcoin donations from what we can see. Mirrors: x. Website: Torrentz2 website. If length is present then the download represents a single file, otherwise it represents a set of files which go in a directory structure. In the single file case, length maps to the length of the file in bytes.

For the purposes of the other keys, the multi-file case is treated as only having a single file by concatenating the files in the order they appear in the files list. The files list is the value files maps to, and is a list of dictionaries containing the following keys:. In the single file case, the name key is the name of a file, in the muliple file case, it's the name of a directory. The 20 byte sha1 hash of the bencoded form of the info value from the metainfo file.

This value will almost certainly have to be escaped. Note that this is a substring of the metainfo file. The info-hash must be the hash of the encoded form as found in the. Conversely that means clients must either reject invalid metainfo files or extract the substring directly. They must not perform a decode-encode roundtrip on invalid data. Tracker responses are bencoded dictionaries.

If a tracker response has a key failure reason , then that maps to a human readable string which explains why the query failed, and no other keys are required. Otherwise, it must have two keys: interval , which maps to the number of seconds the downloader should wait between regular rerequests, and peers. Note that downloaders may rerequest on nonscheduled times if an event happens or they need more peers. More commonly is that trackers return a compact representation of the peer list, see BEP If you want to make any extensions to metainfo files or tracker queries, please coordinate with Bram Cohen to make sure that all extensions are done compatibly.

It is common to announce over a UDP tracker protocol as well. Peer connections are symmetrical. Messages sent in both directions look the same, and data can flow in either direction.

The peer protocol refers to pieces of the file by index as described in the metainfo file, starting at zero. When a peer finishes downloading a piece and checks that the hash matches, it announces that it has that piece to all of its peers.

Connections contain two bits of state on either end: choked or not, and interested or not. Choking is a notification that no data will be sent until unchoking happens. The reasoning and common techniques behind choking are explained later in this document.

Data transfer takes place whenever one side is interested and the other side is not choking. Interest state must be kept up to date at all times - whenever a downloader doesn't have something they currently would ask a peer for in unchoked, they must express lack of interest, despite being choked.

Implementing this properly is tricky, but makes it possible for downloaders to know which peers will start downloading immediately if unchoked. When data is being transferred, downloaders should keep several piece requests queued up at once in order to get good TCP performance this is called 'pipelining'. On the other side, requests which can't be written out to the TCP buffer immediately should be queued up in memory rather than kept in an application-level network buffer, so they can all be thrown out when a choke happens.

The URL of the tracker for the torrent. A listing of the URLs of alternate trackers for the torrent. The URLs are divided into groups each is a list , trackers in each group may be shuffled, and groups are processed in the order they appear. The creation date and time, expressed as the number of seconds since January 1, The number of bytes in each piece.

Files in a torrents are divided into "pieces" with a specific length. A list of dictionaries, one dictionary for each file in the torrent, which is described in the next table.