Hello,

I'm interested in using your code for another project especially when it comes to querying UDP trackers.

Is the UDP tracker querying working? In any case, would it be OK for me to extract it as a separate module (MIT licensed, with your name) ?

[2013-02-24 21:26:52.467] [DEBUG] http.js - Unexpected status code: 301, respons
e:

301 Moved Permanently

I'm getting this error when trying to download from a popular torrent site:

Unrecognized client. Please use a valid BitTorrent client.

I tried passing in an ID of a known torrent client like this:

var client = new Client({ logLevel: 'DEBUG', id: '-UT1610-'});

But haven't had much luck. Has anyone else seen this?

Hello,
I've been playing around with the Tracker class alone for the UDP protocol. i've been trying to find peers off of udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce.
The problem is, that hostname seems to map to several ipv4 DNS records, probably for load balancing purposes. However, when sending its UDP packets, node-torrent uses the hostname everytime which causes the DNS lookup to sometime resolve to another address. In the end, this results in "connection ID missmatch" error messages from the tracker.

A fix for this could be to dns.lookup() the tracker's address once and for all at the begnning.

[2015-10-05 13:35:15.305] [WARN] tracker.js - announce error from udp://tracker.istole.it:80/announce: bind EMFILE
[2015-10-05 13:35:15.305] [WARN] tracker.js - retry announce 'started' in 5s

It looks like it is a OS specific issue, and people seem to suggest the same solution:
http://superuser.com/questions/433746/is-there-a-fix-for-the-too-many-open-files-in-system-error-on-os-x-10-7-1

But still it does not work for everyone -me included, I still get the error-.

I have tried using graceful-js, but no luck.

Additionally, whenever I am running this sample code, my laptop becomes extremely hot and battery drains fast:

var Client = require('node-torrent');
var client = new Client({logLevel: 'DEBUG'});
var torrent = client.addTorrent('a.torrent');

// when the torrent completes, move it's files to another area
torrent.on('complete', function() {
    console.log('complete!');
    torrent.files.forEach(function(file) {
        var newPath = '/new/path/' + file.path;
        fs.rename(file.path, newPath);
        // while still seeding need to make sure file.path points to the right place
        file.path = newPath;
    });
});

Has anyone used this library successfully on Mac OS? Is there a solution for the EMFILE error?

Uncaught node.js Error

RangeError: Port should be > 0 and < 65536
at connect (net.js:843:13)
at net.js:940:9
at dns.js:82:18
at process._tickCallback (node.js:382:11)

Hello, Im pretty new to programming with node and I was wondering if this module supports progress reports - like % downloaded

• Event emitter issues appears:
  (node) warning: possible EventEmitter memory leak detected. 2 listeners added. Use emitter.setMaxListeners() to increase limit.
  Trace
  at EventEmitter.addListener (events.js:160:15)
• Never ending (incomplete) downloading, when tracker announce error:
  [2013-09-09 10:03:31.649] [WARN] tracker.js - announce error from udp://fr33domtracker.h33t.com:3310/announce: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND
  [2013-09-09 10:03:31.650] [WARN] tracker.js - retry announce 'started' in 5s

Instances of node-torrent on multiple machines will happily share partial torrent data, but if an instance already has a complete copy of the files, it seems it won't participate as a seed unless the 'ready' event is emitted:

torrent.js, parse()

LOGGER.info('torrent already complete');
self.emit('ready');

This example only shows a way to move a downloaded file.

var Client = require('node-torrent');
var client = new Client({logLevel: 'DEBUG'});
var torrent = client.addTorrent('a.torrent');
 
// when the torrent completes, move it's files to another area
torrent.on('complete', function() {
    console.log('complete!');
    torrent.files.forEach(function(file) {
        var newPath = '/new/path/' + file.path;
        fs.rename(file.path, newPath);
        // while still seeding need to make sure file.path points to the right place
        file.path = newPath;
    });
});

Hi. I get version 0.1.6 via npm.
It seems contain syntax error, but fortunately it is really minor issue.
In node-torrent\lib\piece.js line 180; it should be

 self.complete = new BitField(self, self.complete.length);
 self.requested = new BitField(self, self.complete.length);

:D

Nice lib, any approximate date on when magnets will be supported?

logs:

Listening for connections on {"address":"0.0.0.0","family":"IPv4","port":6881}
path.exists is now called fs.exists.
[2012-10-05 10:00:46.540] [DEBUG] torrent.js - Finished validating pieces. Numb
er of valid pieces = 0 out of a total of 841

D:\PG\node-torrent\node_modules\node-torrent\lib\util\bencode.js:83
throw "Can't decode. No type starts with: "+ c;
^
Can't decode. No type starts with: <

I get this all the time.

Hi,

It's my first time in git so please be patient ;-)
I'm using node-torrent lib and in node v0.8.* it was working ok but when I updated to v0.10.1 it's stops validating pieces.
I'm adding torrent and full file and I always get "Number of valid pieces = 0 out of a total of x". I was creating torrent i uTorrent and ctorrent. No luck.

Thanks for Help.
Piotr Balas

I tried to install this with npm, but it took forever.
Turns out there is a 317M .mp4 file in there. Would you mind removing it?

I use nodejs windows and return an error:

E:\node\torrent\node_modules\node-torrent\lib\piece.js:181
self.complete = new BitField(self,complete.length);
^
ReferenceError: complete is not defined

Trying to download file, but always get errors:

[2014-01-24 11:27:07.430] [WARN] tracker.js - announce error from http://bt.rutracker.org/ann?uk=0carlgMQCj: Unexpected status code: 403, response: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
 <head>
  <title>403 - Forbidden</title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <h1>403 - Forbidden</h1>
 </body>
</html>

This is content of .torrent file:

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Hi @superafroman,

First of all, thanks for this great module!
I've downloaded the last version from npm (npm install node-torrent) and it is clearly outdated, it doesn't contain the latest fixes.

Could you make a release with the latest code?

Thanks!
Best,
Guillermo.