Torrent Tracker On SMF

[desistyle]

Hi i think there should be a mod for so we can install a torrent tracker on smf like they can do in VB and a ratio and all that tracker for torrents in smf can someone do this or no ?

[Joshsux]

good idea!

[Joshsux]

anybody can do this? it's not illigal either by the way, alot of companies host there files on a torrent to save webspace.

[Alan S]

its not a good idea , its been requested many times before , its too risky because illegal torrents will end up on your site and then your fairly screwed if someone with authority discovers it....

[desistyle]

well i think administrator of site can ban users who post illegal stuff and if we get torrents we can cut down on those big bills that we pay everymonth to hosting companys cause it will save us lot of bandwidth

[Joshsux]

yeah... anyway companies give you a warning when it comes to not so big sites with trackers or illigal files, they will say give you 1 week to remove the stuff before more action will be taken, happened to my friend, i think its a brilliant idea, i could finally upload my abandonware games files worth like 1.3gig and not have so much bandwith being lost

[Joshsux]

Is people too chicken to make one? COME ON IT'S ALL LEGAL unless you do it illigally, torrents where made to save bandwith you know? it cant be that hard to make a torrent tracker! or something like that?!

[niko]

Is people too chicken to make one? COME ON IT'S ALL LEGAL unless you do it illigally, torrents where made to save bandwith you know? it cant be that hard to make a torrent tracker! or something like that?!

It's legal yes and filterin most illegal content is not very hard to do, at least for scene releases since they share naming scheme (dots.instead.of.spaces) and rar files 14mb/50mb. And it can be done so that admin has to accept torrents.

It is hard and I would do one if I needed it. Also Tracker consumes a lot of resources.
Every client announces every 20min (and maybe often) and if there were 100 it would take a lot of bandwidth ~7200 request per day without scrapes. And if you have vps-hosting that It would need why not just run python tracker and if you have money for vps/dedicated you could just pay for someone to do scripting?

Oh and you could just integrate some tracker to use SMF database and user base. (maybe add some tracking to torrent so you could ban if someone shared torrent to others, especially if it's non-public site).

[modtang]

I'm looking into this now. I don't think it would be too hard to integrate a tracker backend into SMF. I'm assuming people would want upload/download stats to appear in a users profile and whatnot.

No promises but if I come up with anything I will let you all know.

[lordmenace]

Great looking forward to this.

[Joshsux]

same, thank you.

[Dannii]

There are many PHP trackers already availiable, you could probably intergrate one of those.

[Joshsux]

yes possibly but i don't know code from a fish so it's impossible.

[desistyle]

can plz someone make this possible

[kewlnsol]

1. Torrent trackers are 100% legal
2. Indexing is all a .torrent file is not copy written material
3. Usage of the site has clauses you can post to exonerate your responsibility for users
    ie when ppl sign up they have to accept they will take 100% responsibility for the things they upload
    and because the file transfering is only tracked and not hosted your not doin anything wrong.

Now saying this i run 2 trackers, 3 websites using SMF and would like to add .t to smf but understand that the smf crew also need to look out for theyre reputation.  If torrent and smf get ascociated then ull end up with the illegal tag just like the 100% legal torrent systems !!

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http://www.btiteam.org/

will probly hold all scripting answers for you if you intends to try to do an intergration.

[nitins60]

Me too looking for!!! But, one thing i don't like @ SMF, All mods skips suggestions/requests by giving useless reasons..... 

[HoTmetal]

Me too looking for!!! But, one thing i don't like @ SMF, All mods skips suggestions/requests by giving useless reasons..... 

Not true. The team hears our every request posted on this board. Sometimes the answers may given seem a bit generalized but this is because they the subject has been discussed more than once.

I agree torrents can be 100% legal, but lets be realistic. They have a negative persona associated with them for a reason: people use them to upload/download copyrighted matrial. As eldʌkar stated, Trackers exist, your best bet would to have someone intagrate one for you.  A mod may be made, but I'm not sure if it would make it into the mod section. I'd have to do some reading in the docs and consult some folks on the team on the status of an offical answer.

Until then I encourage you to keep researching you mod. Maybe you can get a few folks who are intrested in this mod together, coax and or and pay some fellow SMF who knows how to code to build you something to your liking. http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?board=50.0

[Kolya]

I have just integrated a torrent tracker into my site because I need it for perfectly legal reasons. My bandwidth was used up this month by downloads and I had to close the site. The tracker allows only me to upload, which is good for my purposes. But now people have to register in the forum AND in the tracker.

Saying there probably won't be a SMF mod for this because there's a potential for abuse is ridiculous imo.

[nitins60]

Anyone can do this? I heard somewhere torrent system n vB! Can any1 show link to it! Let me try n SMF

[muslimways]

I think it's a brilliant idea, because alot of sites use vBulletin just to use the torrent mods not because it's better than any other script, such as SMF.

[Hakker]

I would also like to see this feature.

In order to keep it from growing insanely out of hand it could be set to a basic form where for instance no automatic banning and things like that.

Personally I would love to see a basic tracker form in smf. For me it would be of hosting some large patch content and fan made material and nothing more. and the main thing would be to stop it from choking my hosting limits

What I don't need is a large program that does it all like tbsource, but a basic index page would be enough with ability to set the permissions to certain groups.

[bewley]

Last summer, as I began working on my latest project, I derived this crazy notion of integrating a tracker into SMF as I had done so six months previous with IPB. After careful consideration, a six pack of beer, a look at the SMF code base and another six pack, I decided that instead of hooking into the forum architecture, say by modding the SMF files directly, I should simply bridge SMF with another tracker software and create a single registration process (ala Coppermine Gallery). The project has since grown to include direct posting of torrent announcements back to the forum, a credit system based on post counts, archiving deleted announcements to another message board, yada and etc. Although the tracker is not "integrated" into SMF, it only required a one line modification of SMF's SSI file, so it is extremely portable and I am able to upgrade SMF without jumping through hoops.

The catch is that ~80% of the current code used to run my tracker is from the EzTorrent code base, and as far as I know, this is not readily public available and I certainly don't feel comfortable distributing the source. However, the next phase of my project is a complete top to bottom redesign of the tracker so that the code base is as close to 100% "mine" as possible, will have an administration interface and implement a "template" (term used loosely) system that is ompatible with the SMF style sheets (EzTorrent is very ugly by the way).

When will this happen? Hopefully I'll be testing by summer depending on how my spare time pans out. However, if you are interested in seeing what I have done, you may check out my site (link in profile). I am very liberal about guest access, so you should be able to see everything necessary without having to join the site.

[REALVOLTRON]

Last summer, as I began working on my latest project, I derived this crazy notion of integrating a tracker into SMF as I had done so six months previous with IPB. After careful consideration, a six pack of beer, a look at the SMF code base and another six pack, I decided that instead of hooking into the forum architecture, say by modding the SMF files directly, I should simply bridge SMF with another tracker software and create a single registration process (ala Coppermine Gallery). The project has since grown to include direct posting of torrent announcements back to the forum, a credit system based on post counts, archiving deleted announcements to another message board, yada and etc. Although the tracker is not "integrated" into SMF, it only required a one line modification of SMF's SSI file, so it is extremely portable and I am able to upgrade SMF without jumping through hoops.

The catch is that ~80% of the current code used to run my tracker is from the EzTorrent code base, and as far as I know, this is not readily public available and I certainly don't feel comfortable distributing the source. However, the next phase of my project is a complete top to bottom redesign of the tracker so that the code base is as close to 100% "mine" as possible, will have an administration interface and implement a "template" (term used loosely) system that is ompatible with the SMF style sheets (EzTorrent is very ugly by the way).

When will this happen? Hopefully I'll be testing by summer depending on how my spare time pans out. However, if you are interested in seeing what I have done, you may check out my site (link in profile). I am very liberal about guest access, so you should be able to see everything necessary without having to join the site.

I saw your work Bewley and is awesome!  The best of all; integrated with SMF.

I have a question for you; it is functional with TinyPortal too?  I'm asking this because many people (like me) have our portals with SMF + TP.

Thx in advance.

[Minder]

TorrentTrader is licensed under the GPL, so you are encouraged to modify it however you like.
hxxp:sourceforge.net/projects/torrenttrader [nonactive]
On the author's page you can also download v. 2.0RC1 (unavailable on hxxp:sf.net [nonactive]): hxxp:borget.info/?page_id=31 [nonactive] It's also GPL-licensed.

[Aiman]

its a very good idea, looking forward for it.

[franklinrony]

any news?

[michaek]

found this one hxxp:dttvb.yi.org/smf_tracker_project/index?board=1.0 [nonactive]

[Thrasher86]

found this one hxxp:dttvb.yi.org/smf_tracker_project/index?board=1.0 [nonactive]

Links is dead  Any news?

[karlbenson]

Niko posted one the other day.
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=239603.0

[SolidSnke]

DtTvB is not being supported by him or anyone else anymore, I have it posted on my forums step by step. And also have it working in a test enviroment as well.

hxxp:chad-evans.com/smf/index.php?topic=6.0 [nonactive]

I also have on my hxxp:www.solidsnke.com [nonactive] site the Btit torrent tracker integrated into SMF. Now they have a version that is Btit with SMF forums in it, but I am working on making mine with the Tiny Portal front end on SMF and Btit as a addon. But it is still a work in progress.

Cheers

[kurosaki00]

anyone have an update for this?
specially for 1.1.6, 1.1.7  ?

[djhowarth]

Hi Guys, I Am A Member Of Torrent Trader And I Have Talked About SMFTT, And I Think It Is Possible, There Is A VBTT which is vbulletin and torrenttrader. I Have Started Work On This I Dont Knw How Long This Will Take But Hopefully I Will Have A Cateorgy On TT For SMFTT.

This Is A Image Of What Im Working On, Im Using SMF Frames And I Will Be Implenting Code Where Nessecesary. later on 2day i will be putting this on my server at www.madhous3.co.cc so u are welcome to come and join and if their are any serious coders that want to help ill be greatful thanks

[Succubus Evaligan]

I want a torrent tracker for 1.1.7
T_T

[madman71]

I would guess that if you are on a shared hosting plan, your host would zap you for using too many resources. I bet it would not work for these people in the long run.

just a heads up.

[HR]

I want a torrent tracker for 1.1.7
T_T

Got one..
Q. Does it work
A. Yes

Q. Is it very user friendly and feature rich
A. No it isnt feature rich

[Smoky "Rider" Blue]

[offtopic]

Harsh Reality, where is your avatar? hmm.. a g rated one? 

[HR]

[offtopic]

Harsh Reality, where is your avatar? hmm.. a g rated one? 

G.. as in GAY. I had the hing for over a month and somebody must have gotten bored and reading things into it.. anyway back to topic.

[djhowarth]

if anyone is intrested in torrent trader 2.04 and smf 1.1.8 im selling the code for iframe of the forum inside the tracker works well

- login cookie on tracker logs smf in aswell
- logout cookie on tracker logs out of smf aswell
- regrestration on tracker inserts the user on the forum
- import script for people who have torrent trader that wnt 2 use smf as a forum

im selling this for $25 if anyones intrested then pm me and ill contact you through msn or something
thanks!

[Smoky "Rider" Blue]

this should be split from this topic..

the source code you have is open source and can be found. 

[djhowarth]

yes torrent trader is found here and i am a member of there and done quite abit of coding if you register

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http://www.torrenttrader.org


How ever the intregration Is Nothing To Do with Torrent trader its what i have worked on myself so if anyones intrested let me know

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