rTorrent

Please before reading this thread, read Client file format.

Since BitTorrent clients are updated regularly, i'll post the default file template for rTorrent. And will list any changes for a particular version against this default template.

Default template

Code:

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{
    "keyGenerator": {
        "length": 8,
        "type": "hash",
        "refreshOn": "TORRENT_PERSISTENT",
        "case": "lower"
    },
    "peerIdGenerator": {
        "pattern": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
        "refreshOn": "TORRENT_PERSISTENT",
        "shouldUrlEncode": true
    },
    "urlEncoder": {
        "encodingExclusionPattern": "[A-Za-z0-9-]",
        "encodedHexCase": "upper"
    },
    "query": "info_hash={infohash}&peer_id={peerid}&key={key}&compact=1&port={port}&uploaded={uploaded}&downloaded={downloaded}&left={left}&event={event}",
    "numwant": 50,
    "numwantOnStop": 0,
    "requestHeaders": [
        { "name": "Host", "value": "xxxxx"},
        { "name": "User-Agent", "value": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" },
        { "name": "Accept", "value": "*/*" },
        { "name": "Accept-Encoding", "value": "deflate, gzip" }
    ]
}

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0.9.6/0.13.6
peerIdGenerator.pattern: -lt0D60-[\u0001-\u00ff]{12}
requestHeaders.User-Agent: rtorrent/0.9.6/0.13.6

Code:

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    "keyGenerator": {
        "length": 8,
        "type": "hash",

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Are you sure about this? I think rTorrent's keys are 8 random digits, without any letters.

I'm pretty sure about that, but i'll double check.

key=41575983
key=670b2ce6
key=0e66ec4a
key=4af465ad

Here are some keys i just gathered from rtorrent. It's always a hash, but in very rare cases the hash can be full of digits.

Thanks for checking! Looks like I was just misremembering this then.

rTorrent got really popular on late 2008, because it was one of the few (and non-blacklisted) emulations mRatio 2.0.9 supported. And running it under Windows wasn't always easy.

I didn't knew about this once since last week, a joal user asked for it. The project seems to be dead though, there have been no update since 2016.

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Originally Posted by anthony-joal

I didn't knew about this once since last week, a joal user asked for it.

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You didn't? It's highly popular in seedboxes, not as much as it was before Deluge and gigabit lines took over, but still very much so.

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The project seems to be dead though, there have been no update since 2016.

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Nothing left to improve? =]

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Originally Posted by anon

You didn't? It's highly popular in seedboxes, not as much as it was before Deluge and gigabit lines took over, but still very much so.

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I did not, i personnaly use aria2 on linux headless environment, which has benefited from an really cool Webui developed by independant developpers.

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Originally Posted by anon

Nothing left to improve? =]

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It may be ^^

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Originally Posted by anthony-joal

I did not, i personnaly use aria2 on linux headless environment, which has benefited from an really cool Webui developed by independant developpers.

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Is this allowed on private trackers ?

On most of them yes, i also heard that ipt allow aria2, but not older version.

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Originally Posted by illusive

Is this allowed on private trackers ?

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Always check their FAQ and/or wiki if you want to be sure, but in a worst case scenario, you're not going to get banned for using a blacklisted client, nor will your stats be affected.