tozi

Torrent downloader or leecher.
_{pronounced as TOZ-ee}

Installation

copper install tozi

or download executable from latest release page.

Usage

tozi - torrent leecher (downloader) built in zig, fast, efficient and small

USAGE:
  tozi <COMMAND> [FILE_OR_URL]

COMMANDS:
  download  Download torrent from a file or magnet link
  continue  Check how much of the torrent is already downloaded. Accepts torrent files as well as magnet links
  verify    Check the integrity of the torrent files. Logs success message if the whole torrent is downloaded
  info      Display metadata for a torrent file or magnet link (will firstly fetch torrent file for magnet links)
  version   Show build information
  help      Show this message

EXAMPLES:
  tozi download "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:..."
  tozi download ./film.torrent
  tozi version

Building

zig build

Why ?

• learn kqueue, torrent proto and zig
• replace motrix
• fast
• mine (?)

Notes

• there is no seeding capability, because almost nobody would have a server that is available to the public web. This means nobody can connect to you (unless you messed with your network setup, which I didn't do).
• there is no linux support, because I didn't write epoll wrapper and I didn't use pre-built libraries.
• file read/writes are "blocking". I think i will change this with zig 0.16.0. But to be honest, I didn't find it to be a bottleneck, because usually the network is saturated first. File and hashing are now done in separate threads. It turned out to be easier than i expected. Also discovered new thing std.posix.pipe for threads communications. It integrated nicely with kqueue.
• udp tracker support. Learned that udp is also quite cool, because you receive either whole packet or nothing, which is perfect for torrent tracker.

Support

• BEP-003: Core protocol (I'm not entierly sure this is 100% compliant, but it still downloads torrents)
• BEP-006: Fast extension
• BEP-009: Extension for Metadata Files (TODO: add support for sending metadata messages)
• BEP-010: Extension Protocol
• BEP-011: Peer Exchange (PEX)
• BEP-012: Multiple trackers
• BEP-015: UDP Tracker Protocol for BitTorrent (TODO: add reties)
• BEP-020: Peer ID Conventions
• BEP-023: Tracker Returns Compact Peer Lists
• BEP-040: Canonical Peer Priority
• BEP-054: The lt_donthave extension