UDP Tracker Scrape

[eremini]

Hi,

This is more of a feature request. Could you please consider making it possible to scrape a UDP tracker for numbers, as a lot of trackers seem to be switching to UDP only model (openbittorrent being the biggest one). Since you now use CURL this should be no problem.

Cheers.

[adriengibrat]

Hello,
Interesting point! Any idea where i could find the spec? I have no idea how
to do that...

Adrien

2011/6/2 eremini <
[email protected]>

Hi,

This is more of a feature request. Could you please consider making it
possible to scrape a UDP tracker for numbers, as a lot of trackers seem to
be switching to UDP only model (openbittorrent being the biggest one). Since
you now use CURL this should be no problem.

Cheers.

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[eremini]

Hi,

Good to hear that you're interested. The oficial spec is located here: http://xbtt.sourceforge.net/udp_tracker_protocol.html

Let me know if you need any other info, help or testing.

Cheers.

[adriengibrat]

Thanks for the link, now i have to find some time to try implementing this

[adriengibrat]

Ok, i've just look deeper into some doc (the link you posted + http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/udp_tracker_protocol.html)
It seems I have to implement Connection, Scraping, Error & eventualy Authentification... using sockets.
And Curl isn't any help here!

[eremini]

Yeah you're right I forgot you got to use sockets in this case, so I guess it gets more complicated :/

Example of UDP communication from php.net

[adriengibrat]

very interesting code:
https://github.com/johannes85/PHP-Torrent-Scraper

[eremini]

Ah nice, it's not as complicated as I thought, perhaps you can reuse some of his code in your way

[johannes85]

The easyest way to do it would be to implement some kind of a plugin system so a external scraper class (like mine) could be used. Some Dependency Injection stuff or so. But then there is the question if you want to extend your compact class to a bigger system? A torrent framework which can handle all torrent related tasks would be very useful.

[adriengibrat]

Sorry I still haven't done anything about that!
If anyone want to submit a patch or a push, it's always welcome.

I'm not using torrent very often, I just did that class for fun...
So no torrent Framework in sight.

[eremini]

I am willing to make a donation even if someone is willing to implement UDP scraping into this code!

[adriengibrat]

As soon as i got some time i'm willing to implement UDP scraping + DHT
methods using UDP transfert protocol.
I'm open for any help as I got only few spare time (got a new job 2 weeks
ago and a beautifull son 3 days ago!).
Anyone wanting to help on this, please clone and start coding ;)

[eremini]

I guess no progress on this yet adriengibrat . I'd honestly be willing to donate to someone if they got this done by now, I simple don't have the time or the skill anymore.

[EdOzolins]

Hey adriangibrat!
Here is what I found for udp scraping.
https://github.com/ZonD80/Kinokpk.com-releaser/blob/3.30/Kinokpk.com_releaser_v.3.30/upload/include/benc.php

It would be great if you could add udp to your class.
Thanks

[robinlahtinen]

Updates?

[adriengibrat]

PR always welcome. I dont have time/motivation to do it, but i will happily review & merge.

[darkalchemy]

I added this using the scrapeer class, its in the changes/demo branch. 8cb60d8

[teamcoltra]

I notice that at least some if not all of @darkalchemy 's commit has not made it to the master branch. Did this feature get implemented differently or is there something holding this up?