haze

Small bittorrent client, written in Haskell.

The main goal of this project is to provide a clear implementation of the Bittorrent protocol in Haskell. Providing good performance is also something that would be good to achieve, but reaching the completeness of something like libtorrent or transmission is out of the scope of this project.

Examples

Usage

Usage: haze TORRENT_FILE [-o|--output-dir DIRECTORY] [-l|--log-file LOG_FILE]
            [-p|--port PORT] [-v|--version]
  Download the torrent in TORRENT_FILE

Available options:
  TORRENT_FILE             The torrent file to download
  -o,--output-dir DIRECTORY
                           The directory to download the torrent to
  -l,--log-file LOG_FILE   Logging will happen to this file if set
  -p,--port PORT           The port to listen for incoming connections on
  -h,--help                Show this help text
  -v,--version             Display what version the program is using

After launching haze with a torrent, it will show a progress display with ongoing information on the status of the torrent. Once the torrent has finished downloading, haze will continue to seed it until the program is cancelled (using CTRL-C is fine).

By default, haze will output the torrent files to the current directory, although if a torrent has multiple files, it will usually define a relative root, and files will end up there instead. Using a folder for the output is recommended for single file torrents, since many small files are generated while downloading the torrent, before they get glued together to make up the large file. These files might otherwise temporarily clutter up a folder you want to keep clean, so be wary of that.

At the moment, haze only supports downloading a single torrent file at once.

haze can perform logging to a file if specified, otherwise no logging is done. The logging exists mainly for debug purposes, although it might be interesting to look at to gleam some more about how the program works :)

Resources

The main resource I used for learning about the specification is here: https://wiki.theory.org/index.php/BitTorrentSpecification

The above page is enough to understand the spec, but it takes a few reads to grok all the information.