storrent

A BitTorrent client with a 9P filesystem interface.

Dependencies

• plan9port

Features

• DHT for peer discovery
• μTP transport
• 9P control interface

Build

go build

Run

./storrent -dht 6881 -utp 6882 -dir ./download -addr :5640 &
9pfuse localhost:5640 /mnt/storrent

Usage

Interact via files:

echo 'add /path/to/file.torrent' > /mnt/storrent/ctl
cat /mnt/storrent/list
cat /mnt/storrent/torrents/0/progress

Torrent control commands (write to torrents/<id>/ctl):

start         start downloading
stop          stop torrent
seed          start seeding
remove        remove torrent
peer <addr>   add peer manually

Status files in torrents/<id>/:

name       torrent name
state      current state
progress   download progress
size       total size
down       bytes downloaded
up         bytes uploaded
pieces     piece info
peers      connected peers

TODO

• μTP congestion control
• ReadAt for streaming and seeding while downloading

Packages

bencode/    bencode encoding/decoding
bt/         BitTorrent protocol messages
client/     torrent management
dht/        DHT implementation
fs/         9P filesystem
metainfo/   .torrent file parsing
utp/        uTP transport