Add support for magnet links
- Dominant language
- Go
- Stars
- 1
- Forks
- 0
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
- Parse magnets links
- Get the trackers for it and communicate with the peers to get the infoHash details for the torrent files
- Communicate with the peers as usual, there isn't much change in the implementation.
- If no trackers are available, Do DHT (This needs a big change, don't implement it just yet)
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the existing torrent-file parsing, tracker communication, and peer communication flows; define completion around parsing magnet links and retrieving the infoHash through trackers, while leaving DHT support out of scope.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- distributed-systems, networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100