sajad-lx / torrent-webseed-creator-colab

Webseeded torrent creator using Google Colaboratory

Torrent Webseed Creator on Colab

Webseeded Torrent Creator using Google Colaboratory.

Inspired by BurnBit † and URLHash.

Powered by py3createtorrent to create a torrent file.

An alternative to BurnBit and URLHash.

Convert direct HTTP link to .torrent

Your file is then burned into a torrent.

Torrents created are trackerless, relying on Distributed Hash Table and Peer EXchange, to help reduce the burden of torrent trackers.

For people that have unstable internet.
Can be paused because it is a torrent.
Utilizes the power of peer to peer downloads and the client-server downloads.
Combines the best of both worlds (P2P and Direct HTTP Link).

How to use

1. Open in Google Colaboratory.
2. Input data on form.
   • Name: The name of the torrent file.
   • Comment: The comment inside the torrent file.
   • URL: The URL of the file to download and create a torrent from.
   • File name: The file name of the file you will create a torrent from.
   • Piece size: The size of the torrent pieces in kilobyte or 0 for automatic calculation.
3. Click play in every cell.

URL requirements

1. URL must be accessible without cookies. Source
2. The URL should not expire, or it will stop working sometime if there is not enough seeders. Source

Recommend piece size

Keep it on 0 for automatic calculation or follow this guide.

• 512 KiB for filesizes between 512 MiB - 1024 MiB
• 1024 KiB for filesizes between 1 GiB - 2 GiB
• 2048 KiB for filesizes between 2 GiB - 4 GiB
• 4096 KiB for filesizes between 4 GiB - 8 GiB
• 8192 KiB for filesizes between 8 GiB - 16 GiB
• 16384 KiB for filesizes between 16 GiB - 512 GiB This is the max you should ever have to use.
• 32768 KiB (note that utorrent versions before 3.x CANNOT load torrents with this or higher piece-size)

Source: Seedboxes.cc

Increase disk space

1. Go to Runtime.
2. Change Runtime Type and give GPU or TPU as the Hardware Accelerator.

Difference on GitHub Actions version

This Google Colaboratory version has a soft limit of ≈100 GB, The GitHub Actions version of this program has a soft limit of ≈25 GB (or ≈64 GB)