Magnet2Torrent

A command line tool that converts magnet links into .torrent files.

Requirements

• python2.7/3.5
• python-libtorrent (libtorrent-rasterbar version 0.16 or later) for python 2.7 or python3-libtorrent for python 3.5

Install libtorrent-python on Mac

brew install libtorrent-rasterbar --with-python

Install python-libtorrent on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python-libtorrent -y

Usage

usage: Magnet2Torrent.py [-h] -m MAGNET [-o OUTPUT] [--rewrite-file]
                         [--no-rewrite-file] [--skip-file] [--open-file]

A command line tool that converts magnet links into .torrent files

Optional arguments:

-h, --help            Show this help message and exit.
-m MAGNET, --magnet MAGNET
                        The magnet url.
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        The output torrent file name.
--rewrite-file        Rewrite torrent file if it already exists (default).
--no-rewrite-file     Create a new filename if torrent exists.
--skip-file           Skip file if it already exists.
--open-file           Open file after converting.

Example usage

python MagnetToTorrent.py -m <magnet link> [torrent file]

python Magnet2Torrent.py -m "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:49fbd26322960d982da855c54e36df19ad3113b8&dn=ubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386.iso&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com" -o ubunut12-04.iso

Licenses

All code is licensed under the GPL version 3