bittorrent-tracker

[DeeMSmith]

Greetings to all!
Is there a plugin for nodeBB ?
Can I integrate this bittorrent-tracker?
Thanks!

[JasperNL]

Can you be more specific? Which concepts of NodeBB do you like to use in combination with this script, and how would that work?

If the goal is just to use NodeBB and the tracker: that is possible: you can listen at two different ports. If you want to use the same port for NodeBB and for the tracker (for instance 80/443), then you can probably configure this with nGinx.

[yariplus]

Yes of course, I would highly recommend not to do it though. Just run the tracker on another node process.

[DeeMSmith]

@yariplus said in bittorrent-tracker:

Yes of course, I would highly recommend not to do it though. Just run the tracker on another node process.

Here is an example, but all of this should be on NodeBB

[jarey]

@DeeMSmith lol i use rutracker a lot.

Would be amazing to create a plugin that supports that kind of integration in order to build torrent communities with nodebb.

Don't think that any of that kind exists already.

[DeeMSmith]

@jarey Before proceeding to the design,I had to know there is such a plugin or not

[JasperNL]

I'm not very known in the P2P-world, so I may be mistaken about this.

The github repository in the first post -- https://github.com/feross/bittorrent-tracker -- is a tracker like for instance coppersurfers. These trackers handle the peer-handshaking and allocate bandwidth from peers to peers.
The website from your example seems like a directory.
Do you want to host a tracker ánd directory on the nodebb forums?

To asnwer your question: So far as I know, no public torrent-related plugin had been createad for nodebb yet.

[DeeMSmith]

@JasperNL said in bittorrent-tracker:

Do you want to host a tracker ánd directory on the nodebb forums?

Yes, as it can be realized ?

[yariplus]

Okay, a directory makes a lot more sense. I haven't seen any existing plugins, but it's definitely doable.

But why do you want he tracker as plugin? Do you want the tracker to die when the forum crashes?

[jarey]

@yariplus i think he wants a plugin to connect to the tracker an being able to insert the torrent in a post, show statistics asyou, mention, as a repository.

I don't think yhe important part for him is the tracker hosted on the same machine as nodebb, but the integration with a plugin between nodebb and the tracker itself, even if the tracker is hosted on another machine/host.

Does that tracker has any API to work with?

[DeeMSmith]

@yariplus I have no choice make a separate tracker and forum not for our people to whom designed the tracker, so all used to type like rutracker