lurb v0.1.0

lurb

lurb is a utility for testing BitTorrent clients.

Useful if you want to check your port-forwarding or similar, or just to send arbitrary handshakes and see if a peer has a torrent.

Installation

With npm:

npm i -g lurb

Supported Features

Connecting to a peer via TCP and performing a handshake

lurb handshake -h 127.0.0.1 -p 6969 -i ab6ad7ff24b5ed3a61352a1f1a7811a8c3cc6dde

Thanks

Thanks to Bram Cohen for the initial BitTorrent specification, and Arvid Norberg for his amazing work on libtorrent.

Also thanks to gl0ryus for suggesting the name of this project.