Flood: [Request] Create torrent from file

[EternalBlack]

First of all: thanks for the awesome work!

I would love to create torrents i.e. uploading a file (either via browser/webinterface or via FTP inside the folder) and creating a torrent file/URL or magnet link from it to be available for others.

[nVitius]

For the record, it looks like rtorrent doesn't have functionality to create torrents itself. ruTorrent handles this with this code:
https://github.com/Novik/ruTorrent/blob/master/php/Torrent.php
https://github.com/Novik/ruTorrent/tree/master/plugins/create

WebTorrent has a JavaScript package for creating torrents that we might be able to leverage:
https://github.com/webtorrent/create-torrent

[jfurrow]

Thanks for the issue @EternalBlack! I agree, this is necessary.

Thanks for doing some research @nVitius, create-torrent looks like it should work!

[jvacek]

Would just like to make sure that if this is implemented, the source option should be supported. Rudde's mktorrent does this. I'm in no way knowleadgeable with JS or node, but looks like someone already took a stab at making this work from js.

https://github.com/Rudde/mktorrent
https://github.com/bbqsrc/node-mktorrent

[SavageCore]

Yes source support is crucial. Should await the merge of https://github.com/webtorrent/create-torrent/pull/49

[DMCK96]

Any luck on this, now that source support has been added to webtorrent?

[T-z3P]

Hello, any updates on this? I really think is a useful enhancement for Flood.