Tools to generate public torrents. Very useful when releasing open source distros or open source big works

fetch-public-trackers.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
fetch-public-trackers.py: generate a list of public trackers

use this to release open source software to public trackers.

uses bs4 and requests
"""
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

TRACKER_URL = "https://techspree.net/torrent-tracker-list-updated/"

FIND_PATTERN=dict(selector="pre.techspreeprint")

def main():
  h = requests.get(TRACKER_URL)
  soup = BeautifulSoup(h.content)
  try:
    data = soup.select(**FIND_PATTERN)[0]
  except IndexError:
    raise RuntimeError("broken selector, please check fetch-public-trackers.py")
  trackers = [f.strip() for f in data.string.replace('\r\n', '\n').split('\n') if f.strip()]
  return trackers

if __name__ == '__main__':
  print('\n'.join(main()))

generate-public-torrent.sh

#!/bin/sh
# depends on dottorrent-cli. current version is broken, we're considering forking it.
TRACKERS=$(python fetch-public-trackers.py | awk '{ printf(" --tracker %s", $0)}; END { print ""}')
TORRENT_DIR=./public-torrents/
DIRECTORY=$1
SUBDIR=$2
mkdir -p $TORRENT_DIR/$SUBDIR
dottorrent -v -p --source macha $TRACKERS "$DIRECTORY" "$TORRENT_DIR/$SUBDIR"