How to create a .torrent using the command line?

Question

I'm using mktorrent, but I'm having problems with it since it doesn't hash the files in the directory for some weird reason...

I'm looking for a replacement specifically for command line

Answer 1

How about ctorrent?

sudo apt-get install ctorrent
ctorrent -t -u "http://tracker.example.com:6969/announce" -s example.torrent file_or_dir_to_upload 

It's also a very good client.

Answer 2

Transmission (in Ubuntu Desktop, transmission-gtk is the default bittorrent client) can also be used to create torrents. On the command-line, transmissioncli (installed by the transmission-cli package) can be used to create torrents. transmissioncli --help should tell you what options you need to use.

In 2.1x and later versions of transmission, that part has been split out from transmissioncli (since it's been deprecated for a while now, in favor of transmission-daemon) into transmission-create, -show and -edit. Ubuntu 11.04 will ship with version 2.13 of transmission. For all supported releases of Ubuntu, you can get the latest stable version of transmission from Transmission's official PPA at https://edge.launchpad.net/~transmissionbt/+archive/ppa.

Answer 3

Transmission can do it:

$ ./transmission-create --help
Usage: transmission-create [options] <file|directory>

Options:

 -h --help              Display this help page and exit
 -p --private           Allow this torrent to only be used with the specified tracker(s)
 -o --outfile <file>    Save the generated .torrent to this filename
 -c --comment <comment> Add a comment
 -t --tracker <url>     Add a tracker's announce URL
 -V --version           Show version number and exit

Answer 4

Here is the solution I found in google: http://aus-howto.blogspot.com/2011/02/creating-torrent-via-command-line-in.html

A step by step guide to use a python script which creates torrent files.

Answer 5

Buildtorrent

From synaptic:

Description: command line torrent creation program

buildtorrent is a torrent file creation program. Given an announce url and an input file or directory, buildtorrent generates an output .torrent file that can be used by torrent clients.