every once in awhile i get a bug up my butt about sharing my massive, curated library… but every time i get distracted by the volume of steps it would take to create the necessary shit to seed and then find a place that would even take those seeds to index.
ami doin it wrong? why is it so hard? napster was easy.
Most public trackers don’t take uploads from unknown people to combat spam/malware.
If you create a torrent and enable DHT/PEX it might get indexed by something like btdigg.com for people to find. It won’t be available on sites like 1337x.to. The advantage is your free to create a single torrent or any other organization you desire.
Private trackers generally accept uploads or make it simple to request upload access. But they have upload rules you must follow.
If you want to automate uploading there’s Upload-Assistant. UA makes it easy by creating a proper name and uploading to multiple trackers automatically.
In any case you must have port forwarding configured to greatly increase the likelyhood of others actually being able to download from you. If you don’t want to do that on your router a VPN with port forwarding is the private option (ProtonVPN, AirVPN, IVPN, njalla and few others).
this sounds promising. ive already got a vpn container (gluetun) to proton.
- Create Torrent
- Upload torrent to torrent cache website
- Torrent eventually propagates to DHT network
It’s easy. Create the torrent, upload it to a public tracker. Or send it to your friends. Or post the magnet link and rely on DHT.
what are the best tools to automagically create 40k torrent files from their xml metadata. are there tools to automatically bundle seasons/shows/collections?
It depends. If you want to split the library by movies/shows/seasons/whatever, you can probably do that with a small shell script. If it’s by folder, that’s very easy. If for some reason you have an XML database and a flat file backend… well, you’d have to put the files into a folder tree for the torrents anyway. It would be much easier to actually move (or better yet, symlink or hard link) the files into that folder tree, unless there’s some kind of industrial-grade torrent software I’ve never heard of that can integrate with that, instead of just the filesystem. I’m sure they exist, given that bittorrent is used for stuff like video game updates, but that seems like a lot of work for not much gain.
This tool sounds like something I could write if enough people need it.
the xml is just the media data usually ingested by kodi/jellyfin. its all already well structured in files and folders.
ill prolly start looking into a script i can use to generate the torrents and feed into my deluge container, but you have proven my point.
its not ‘easy’ to create and seed a library of files.
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Maybe you want something like a command line torrent client?
Get a filepath list of all the files you want to torrent, and use a text editor to paste the torrent executable and arguments to turn the file list into a script file, then run it?
I understand that Deluge can be operated via command line. https://forum.deluge-torrent.org/viewtopic.php?t=47831 I’m not sure whether that works on platforms other than Linux.
You should probably talk to the tracker admins about before you do this so that you don’t get mistaken as some kind of attack.
im all linux, and have a deluge container already working through a vpn… a scripted solution with symlink to an attached, read-only volume of my library kinda sounds like a start.
if anything, this all proves my point. its not easy to ‘just create a torrent and upload it’ as mentioned upthread
I got into a private tracker and setup my stuff with radarr, sonarr, etc. to hardlink between my library and my tracked stuff. That way it’s quite nicely automated at least when downloading stuff there. I once moved my library to a new system which was a bit of a pain and I also dislike creating new stuff in the tracker… but I’m quite happy at how good automated it actually is for not being a product.
What are you trying to share?
