README.md

Tracker Scraper

A simple torrent tracker scraper

NOTE: scrape for http trackers work after version >= 1.1 of this package

Installation

pip install tracker-scraper

Usage

from tracker_scraper import scrape

results = scrape(
  tracker='udp://exodus.desync.com:6969',
  hashes=[
    "2d88e693eda7edf3c1fd0c48e8b99b8fd5a820b2",
    "8929b29b83736ae650ee8152789559355275bd5c"
  ]
)

print(results)

scrape Returns the list of seeds, peers and downloads a torrent info_hash has, according to the specified tracker

Args:

• tracker (str): The announce url for a tracker, usually taken directly from the torrent metadata.
• hashes (list): A list of torrent info_hash's to query the tracker for

Returns:
A dict of dicts. The key is the torrent info_hash's from the 'hashes' parameter, and the value is a dict containing "seeds", "peers" and "complete".

Example:

{
  "2d88e693eda7edf3c1fd0c48e8b99b8fd5a820b2": {
    "seeds": "34",
    "peers": "189",
    "complete": "10"
  },
  "8929b29b83736ae650ee8152789559355275bd5c": {
    "seeds": "12",
    "peers": "0",
    "complete": "290"
  }
}

Credits

Code taken from project m2t by Erin Drummond (erindru). Originally written in Python 2.7, updated code to Python 3+ and now using requests