metatorrent v1.0.0 Metatorrent.Metainfo View Source

A BitTorrent Metainfo file.

Keys

• :announce - The main announce URL.
• :announce_list - Additional announce URLs. Note that this list can contain nested lists in order to describe tracker priority. See http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0012.html for more information.
• :nodes - DHT nodes to fetch additional metadata and peers for this torrent. See http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0005.html#torrent-file-extensions for more information.
• :comment - The comment that the torrent creator added to the metainfo file.
• :created_by - The software that assembled this metainfo file.
• :creation_date - The timestamp that this metainfo file was created.
• :info - Describes the files this metainfo file can be used to download. See Metatorrent.SingleFileInfo and Metatorrent.MultiFileInfo.
• :info_hash - The SHA-1 hash of the bencoded :info block, used to identify this torrent. This key is added by Metatorrent because it must be derived from the :info block and so is not directly present in the metainfo file.

For more information about the metainfo file format, see http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html#metainfo-files.