bcoder 1.1

Tool to decode and encode .torrent files

bcoder

About

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A Python package to handle bencoded values, a serialization format commonly used in .torrent files within the BitTorrent protocol.

Usage

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There are 2 types of classes:

• BDecoder - handle decoding of bencoded data to common Python types
• BEncoder - handle encoding of common Python types to bytes type

Example of BDecoder usage:

from bcoder import BDecoder

decoder = BDecoder()

with open("file.torrent", "rb") as file:
    data = file.read()

decoded = decoder.decode(data)

Example of BEncoder usage:

from bcoder import BEncoder

encoder = BEncoder()

data = {
    b"announce-list": [
        ["udp:..."],
        ["udp:..."],
    ],
    "info": {
        "piece": b"xfsasf",
        "piece length": 123,
    },
}

encoded = encoder.encode(data)

NOTE: BEncoder can handle mixed types of Python strings - bytes and str.