Ben Davis
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23 lines
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# BitTorrentSwift
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A Swift implementation of the BitTorrent protocol, with very simple example iOS app.
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## Introduction
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This is a working implementation of the basic BitTorrent protocol. Still a work in progress with many features/optimisations/fixes needed,
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but for now it works! 🎉
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I decided to write this because I found it a interesting a challenging way to practise my iOS, it was a lot of fun to write,
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and to demonstrate how I write code.
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### What can it do today?
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- It can download a torrent from other seeds/peers given a valid `.torrent` file.
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- It will also seed (upload) to other peers which connect.
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### What is being worked on at the moment?
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- Implementation of the DHT protocol (to enable trackerless torrents, and the ability to start a torrent via a magnet link)
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- Dropping non-responsive and redundant peers
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- Implementing an algorithm to speed up downloading the last bits.
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### Things for future
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- Make a nice app with a more useful UI as the example app
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- Replace the socket library for one written in pure Swift to make this a pure swift codebase
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