beetools

beetools is a CLI application to manipulate torrent file in bencode format.

It currently supports three subcommands:

• decode to decode data in bencode format and encode them in JSON format.

$ beetools decode debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso.torrent | jq .
{
  "announce": "http://bttracker.debian.org:6969/announce",
  "comment": "\"Debian CD from cdimage.debian.org\"",
  "creation date": "2021-02-06T13:59:34+01:00",
  "httpseeds": [
    "https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/10.8.0//srv/cdbuilder.debian.org/dst/deb-cd/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso",
    "https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/10.8.0//srv/cdbuilder.debian.org/dst/deb-cd/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso"
  ],
  "info": {
    "length": 352321536,
    "name": "debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso",
    "piece length": 262144,
    "pieces": "..."
  }
}

• encode to decode data in JSON format and encode them in bencode format.

$ beetools encode debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso.json
d8:announce41:http://bttracker.debian.org:6969/announce7:comment35:"Debian CD from cdimage.debian.org"13:creation datei1612616374e9:httpseedsl145:https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/10.8.0//srv/cdbuilder.debian.org/dst/deb-cd/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso145:https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/10.8.0//srv/cdbuilder.debian.org/dst/deb-cd/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.isoe4:infod6:lengthi352321536e4:name31:debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso12:piece lengthi262144e6:pieces26880:...

• show to show information extracted from the content of a valid .torrent file (filtering "pieces" data).

$ beetools show debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso.torrent 
{
  "announce": "http://bttracker.debian.org:6969/announce",
  "comment": "\"Debian CD from cdimage.debian.org\"",
  "creation date": "2021-02-06T13:59:34+01:00",
  "httpseeds": [
    "https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/10.8.0//srv/cdbuilder.debian.org/dst/deb-cd/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso",
    "https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/10.8.0//srv/cdbuilder.debian.org/dst/deb-cd/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso"
  ],
  "info": {
    "length": 352321536,
    "name": "debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso",
    "piece length": 262144,
    "pieces": ""
  }
}