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Torrent
Before you make a torrent, there are a few things to keep in mind:
- Do not make a torrent of a directory containing a single file, instead make a torrent of the file itself.
- Hybrid and V2 torrents are not supported on nyaa and most other trackers.
- Smaller pieces make for more protocol overhead, bigger torrent files, longer hashing times and possibly higher load on the CPU and HDD.
- Older torrent clients do not support 16MiB+ piece sizes. When using 16MiB pieces, torrent size limits are only a concern above ~5TB.
- Most clients automatically pick too small piece sizes, except dottorrent-gui which aims for a reasonable 1000-1500 pieces.
- You can target ~1000 pieces with 16MiB being the upper limit. Here's a reference:
2 to 4GB - 4MiB
4 to 8GB - 8MiB
8 to ∞ GB - 16MiB
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Public Tracker URLs
http://nyaa.tracker.wf:7777/announce
http://anidex.moe:6969/announce
udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce
udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969/announce
udp://tracker.torrent.eu.org:451/announce
There are several ways to make a torrent:
- torrenttools - Recommended, Cross Platform, CLI.
- mktorrent - Linux only, CLI.
- dottorrent-gui - Windows, GUI.
- Qbittorrent - Cross Platform, GUI, Slowest of the bunch.
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torrenttools
Refer to the torrenttools docs for advanced features like Named trackers and Tracker groups.
Command to make a torrent of a single file or directory
torrenttools create -l 16MiB ^
-a http://nyaa.tracker.wf:7777/announce ^
http://anidex.moe:6969/announce ^
udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce ^
udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce ^
udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969/announce ^
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969/announce ^
"D:\path\to\root\directory"
torrenttools create -l 16MiB \
-a http://nyaa.tracker.wf:7777/announce \
http://anidex.moe:6969/announce \
udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce \
udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce \
udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969/announce \
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969/announce \
"New Folder"
Command to make a torrent for each subdirectory
for /d %X in (*) do torrenttools create -l 16MiB ^
-a http://nyaa.tracker.wf:7777/announce ^
http://anidex.moe:6969/announce ^
udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce ^
udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce ^
udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969/announce ^
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969/announce ^
"%X"
for dir in ./*/; do torrenttools create -l 16MiB \
-a http://nyaa.tracker.wf:7777/announce \
http://anidex.moe:6969/announce \
udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce \
udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce \
udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969/announce \
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969/announce \
"$dir"; done
Command to make a torrent for each file in a directory
for %X in (*.mkv) do torrenttools create -l 16MiB ^
-a http://nyaa.tracker.wf:7777/announce ^
http://anidex.moe:6969/announce ^
udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce ^
udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce ^
udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969/announce ^
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969/announce ^
"%X"
for file in *.mkv; do torrenttools create -l 16MiB \
-a http://nyaa.tracker.wf:7777/announce \
http://anidex.moe:6969/announce \
udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce \
udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce \
udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969/announce \
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969/announce \
"$file"; done
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mktorrent
For mktorrent, piece size is passed as -l n
where n
is the power of 2
, making the piece size equal to 2^(n)
bytes.
n = 22 -> 4MiB
n = 23 -> 8MiB
n = 24 -> 16MiB
Command to make a torrent of a single file or directory
mktorrent -v -l 24 \
-a http://nyaa.tracker.wf:7777/announce \
-a http://anidex.moe:6969/announce \
-a udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce \
-a udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce \
-a udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969/announce \
-a udp://exodus.desync.com:6969/announce \
"D:\path\to\root\directory"
Command to make a torrent for each subdirectory
for dir in ./*/; do mktorrent -v -l 24 \
-a http://nyaa.tracker.wf:7777/announce \
-a http://anidex.moe:6969/announce \
-a udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce \
-a udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce \
-a udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969/announce \
-a udp://exodus.desync.com:6969/announce \
"$dir"; done
Command to make a torrent for each file in a directory
for file in *.mkv; do mktorrent -v -l 24 \
-a http://nyaa.tracker.wf:7777/announce \
-a http://anidex.moe:6969/announce \
-a udp://open.stealth.si:80/announce \
-a udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce \
-a udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969/announce \
-a udp://exodus.desync.com:6969/announce \
"$file"; done
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dottorrent-gui
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qbittorrent
Line breaks after each tracker URL are necessary when creating a torrent with Qbittorrent.