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Torrust Tracker is a BitTorrent Tracker that matchmakes peers and collects statistics. Written in Rust Language with the Axum web framework. This tracker aims to be respectful to established standards, (both formal and otherwise).

This is a Torrust project and is in active development. It is community supported as well as sponsored by Nautilus Cyberneering.

Key Features

Roadmap

Core:

Persistence:

Performance:

Protocols:

Integrations:

Utils:

Others:

https://github.com/orgs/torrust/projects/10/views/6

Implemented BitTorrent Enhancement Proposals (BEPs)

Learn more about BitTorrent Enhancement Proposals

Getting Started

Container Version

The Torrust Tracker is deployed to DockerHub, you can run a demo immediately with the following commands:

Docker

docker run -it torrust/tracker:develop

Please read our container guide for more information.

Podman

podman run -it docker.io/torrust/tracker:develop

Please read our container guide for more information.

Development Version

Checkout, Test and Run

# Checkout repository into a new folder:
git clone https://github.com/torrust/torrust-tracker.git

# Change into directory and create a empty database file:
cd torrust-tracker
mkdir -p ./storage/tracker/lib/database/
touch ./storage/tracker/lib/database/sqlite3.db

# Check all tests in application:
cargo test --tests --benches --examples --workspace --all-targets --all-features

# Run the tracker:
cargo run

Customization

# Copy the default configuration into the standard location:
mkdir -p ./storage/tracker/etc/
cp ./share/default/config/tracker.development.sqlite3.toml ./storage/tracker/etc/tracker.toml

# Customize the tracker configuration (for example):
vim ./storage/tracker/etc/tracker.toml

# Run the tracker with the updated configuration:
TORRUST_TRACKER_CONFIG_TOML_PATH="./storage/tracker/etc/tracker.toml" cargo run

Optionally, you may choose to supply the entire configuration as an environmental variable:

# Use a configuration supplied on an environmental variable:
TORRUST_TRACKER_CONFIG_TOML=$(cat "./storage/tracker/etc/tracker.toml") cargo run

For deployment, you should override the api_admin_token by using an environmental variable:

# Generate a Secret Token:
gpg --armor --gen-random 1 10 | tee ./storage/tracker/lib/tracker_api_admin_token.secret
chmod go-rwx ./storage/tracker/lib/tracker_api_admin_token.secret

# Override secret in configuration using an environmental variable:
TORRUST_TRACKER_CONFIG_TOML=$(cat "./storage/tracker/etc/tracker.toml") \
  TORRUST_TRACKER_CONFIG_OVERRIDE_HTTP_API__ACCESS_TOKENS__ADMIN=$(cat "./storage/tracker/lib/tracker_api_admin_token.secret") \
  cargo run

Please view our crate documentation for more detailed instructions.

Services

The following services are provided by the default configuration:

Documentation

You can read the latest documentation from https://docs.rs/.

Some specific sections:

Benchmarking

Contributing

We are happy to support and welcome new people to our project. Please consider our contributor guide.</br> This is an open-source community-supported project. We welcome contributions from the community!

How can you contribute?

License

Copyright (c) 2023 The Torrust Developers.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Some files include explicit copyright notices and/or license notices.

Legacy Exception

For prosperity, versions of Torrust Tracker that are older than five years are automatically granted the MIT-0 license in addition to the existing AGPL-3.0-only license.

Contributor Agreement

The copyright of the Torrust Tracker is retained by the respective authors.

Contributors agree:

The Torrust-Tracker project has no copyright assignment agreement.

We kindly ask you to take time and consider The Torrust Project Contributor Agreement in full.

Acknowledgments

This project was a joint effort by Nautilus Cyberneering GmbH and Dutch Bits. Also thanks to Naim A. and greatest-ape for some parts of the code. Further added features and functions thanks to Power2All.