postman auto post api

[cumlord]

not sure if not wanted bc of spam and whatnot or resource use but some sort of way to post automatically without needing to go through the web interface would be amazing. wanna do my part to get more quality content into i2p, really think hevc is necessary bc of speed here and i process everything to hevc anyway so, might as well share

squashing bugs on a simple script to get freshly encoded torrents from tdarr and compile a description/grab meta info but manual posting is a bit of a roadblock especially since random page timeouts and all that. and i2p itself can be slow anyway...as of now i'm just having them go to a folder to wait and paste them all manually later. maybe that's just the best way to do it

can post the torrent creation tool when i get it less buggy if anyone interested, it does rely on some dependencies like mktorrent, media info and api calls to get meta info on the series. but if there was a way to incorporate automated posting into a script like that it would speed things up a LOT!

[lgillis]

This function does not exist in Postman. You could, of course, drop your suggestion for improvement directly into the PaT mailbox, but I wouldn't get my hopes up too high. After all, PaT has not just been around since yesterday. Difftracker.i2p already had exactly such a software 10 years ago, with which users could upload torrents en masse from their sofa without having to use the web interface.

I also wonder why you freethinkers want to subject yourselves to this kind of tracker GUI. Everything you need is already provided by the good BitTorrent clients. BiglyBT even has its own tracker built in and here on the net there are a number of stable OpenTrackers. What is missing is a place to publish your magnet URL and HASH sum, some forum - like this one. Or you write the data on a flyer, like a catalog, and make a torrent out of it, which you publish at PaT or somewhere else.

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[cumlord]

ah i figured it was worth a shot, thanks for pointing that out. i was thinking about going that route as biglybt has that all built in and from there the rest is about automated on my end so i think i'll look into doing that. Open to suggestions for announcing, irc, biglybt itself like the dht chat, rss? I do like the idea of the catalog uploaded to PaT, i'm mainly looking to automate for purpose of future broadcasted shows, but i could include links to a method to obtain future links and of past ones. really good idea, thank you

i agree, still a lot to learn regarding i2p but seemed thats just the most visible place for that kinda thing on here, so made sense to see if could be done there.

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[ghost92]

Another solution would be to adapt a DHT crawler for the I2P DHT to track torrents. This might be tricky as I have yet to understand the code for I2P DHT. Also, the support for the I2P DHT is limited to only the i2psnark currently, I think. While BiglyBT has their own, it doesn't help the other people using other clients trying to use the I2P DHT.

**CLEARNET**
https://github.com/bitmagnet-io/bitmagnet
https://github.com/btdig/dhtcrawler2

[cumlord]

i took a look at that and afraid it's way over my head lol. i was concerned about that though bc i wasn't sure if dht would be siloed like that and it still seems like majority of peers are on snark. honestly if i knew how to make this work that would be an ideal way to do it since not relying fully on tracker...but i did make sure to add all the ones you added here to my janky ass scripts so they should be hitting all of them at least. thanks for providing that btw

i might have found a reasonable way to go about this w/pat but not sure if it's reliable or not yet. going to mess around with it a little more to see if it's worth it, but now realizing single episodes..maybe not best to have a ton of them littering the front page, so probably will do season packs after finished airing to pat and post single episodes as they come...soooomewhere

[lgillis]

Don't make your life and the lives of others unnecessarily difficult. Every interpersonal relationship in which the software or the technology and not the person is in the foreground is doomed to failure, imo.

I2PSnark and BiglyBt can communicate with each other without PaT. (Proof: In Bbt, remove the PaT tracker or all trackers from any active torrent. The Bbt plugin I2P remains activated and continues to search for peers). There are a few participants who disable the DHT in I2PSnark for reasons unknown to me and are thus dependent on trackers, but the majority use it, even if they don't know about it. And if you still want to reach everyone then include one or more OpenTrackers.

[lgillis]

An innocuous example (Alien Song, size: 3,053 MiB) via http://opentracker.dg2.i2p/
Hash:

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df52a72a9de0170b979e26b1886388d34c54c618

Magnet:

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magnet:?xt=urn:btih:df52a72a9de0170b979e26b1886388d34c54c618&dn=From%20the%20time%20when%20the%20Internet%20learned%20to%20walk&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fopentracker.dg2.i2p%2Fa

(This example torrent is not online 24/7)

[cumlord]

i think automation is good for things like this as long as it's being supervised by someone, just my opinion. main reason i'm willing to overcomplicate things is wanting to post same day content that afaik is missing on i2p, but can't hover around my computer all day. But i do think everything else probably should be initiated manually by a person which is what i feel like you were getting at, and i agree.

The first time i tried to automate something very different than this years ago it ran for months on its own which was great, saved many, many hours of my time and made less errors than i would have but it then went on to do a series of very unfortunate errors. so...ever since then i view automation for doing repetitive tasks as a tool but never a replacement for manual effort.

i have been using all other trackers i've been able to find and just updated them when i saw the post from ghost92 here, skank was a new one for me i don't remember seeing that one unless i was being dumb and missed it which is probable lol. great info about the dht, so in effect then all clients should be able to find each other via dht assuming it's enabled? apologies if misunderstood

[lgillis]

That's right, Meister cumlord. Within I2P, the BitTorrrent clients I2PSnark and BiglyBT speak the same language. After all, it would be a design flaw to make the BitTorrent clients' communication dependent on the existence of a privately managed eepsite.

The above does not apply to clients in the early stages of development. But these clients do not play a role in the everyday life of seeds and peers, who go out on a limb to please others.

I see an actual obstacle in the behavior of the participants. It will be very difficult to approach them outside the beaten track. But that is another topic.

[lgillis]

Short notice. After ten days and a total of nil downloads, I'm taking the above torrent off the net.

Thx