mktorrent
A CLI utility to create BitTorrent metainfo files.
TLDR
Create a torrent with 2^21 KB as the piece size
Create a private torrent with a 2^21 KB piece size
Create a torrent with a comment
Create a torrent with multiple trackers
Create a torrent with web seed URLs
SYNOPSIS
mktorrent [OPTIONS] <target directory or filename>
DESCRIPTION
mktorrent is a command line utility to create BitTorrent metainfo files used by trackers and torrent clients. It can create metainfo files for single files or complete directories in a fast way.
OPTIONS
- -a, --announce=<url>[,<url>...]
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Specify the full announce URLs. Additional -a adds backup trackers.
- -c, --comment=<comment>
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Add a comment to the metainfo.
- -d, --no-date
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Don't write the creation date.
- -h, --help
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Show this help screen.
- -l, --piece-length=<n>
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Set the piece length to 2^n bytes. Default is 18, that is 2^18 = 256kB.
- -n, --name=<name>
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Set the name of the torrent. Default is the basename of the target.
- -o, --output=<filename>
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Set the path and filename of the created file. Default is <name>.torrent.
- -p, --private
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Set the private flag.
- -s, --source=<source>
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Add source string embedded in infohash.
- -t, --threads=<n>
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Use <n> threads for calculating hashes. Default is the number of CPU cores.
- -v, --verbose
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Be verbose.
- -w, --web-seed=<url>[,<url>...]
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Add web seed URLs. Additional -w adds more URLs.
AUTHORS
Written by Emil Renner Berthing <esmil@mailme.dk>. As of May 2016 the upstream maintainer is Kai Nilsen <mktorrent@rudde.org>.
This manpage was written for the Debian mktorrent package by Paride Legovini <pl@ninthfloor.org> and Nico Golde <nion@debian.org>.
REPORTING BUGS
Please send bug reports, patches, feature requests, praise and general gossip about the program to: <mktorrent@rudde.org>.
COPYRIGHT
This program is Free Software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
SEE ALSO
More documentation at: <https://github.com/Rudde/mktorrent/wiki>.