How to create a torrent?
Torrents are great, they are the best way to share large files with your friends, or even with people you don’t know at all. But surprisingly enough, not many people create torrents when they need to share something. I have “a lot of” friends who know how to download torrents, but when they need to send me their latest 200MB vacation picture collection, they ask me to “get on msn”.
It’s not that I have anything against msn (allthough the file transfer sucks), but why don’t just use BitTorrent? Especially if you want to send something to more than one person, or if you want to share high quality HDTV files, because then you can share the bandwidth.
So how do you do this? Well it’s very simple. Open your favorite BitTorrent client and do the magic trick:
file > create torrent
That’s all? Well almost. All you need to do now is put in the tracker info nad tick some boxes. This can differ somewhat from client to client but it all comes down to the same thing.
uTorrent
1. File > Create new Torrent (or CTRL + N)
2. Select the files and or directories
3. Trackers: This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers. You can use one or more trackers, but in general one is enough.
Here are some good trackers you can use:
http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce
Put one of these in the tracker box
4. Do NOT tick the private torrent box (unless you’re using a private tracker)
5. Save the torrent and send it to your friends
1. File > Create Torrent (or CTRL + M)
2. Select the files and or directories
3. Select “enable public DHT network” from the dropdown box
This way you can be your own tracker if the public tracker goes down.
4. Tracker server and DHT node list
Again, This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers. You can use one or more trackers, but in general one is enough.
Here are some of the most popular trackers at the moment:
http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce
Put one of these in the tracker box
5. Save the torrent and send it to your friends
1. File > New Torrent (or CTRL + N)
2. Tick “use an external tracker”.
And again, This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers.
Here are some of the most popular trackers at the moment:
http://tracker.prq.to/announce
http://inferno.demonoid.com:3389/announce
http://tracker.bt-chat.com/announce
http://tracker.zerotracker.com:2710/announce
Put one of these in the tracker box
3. Select single file or dicectory, click NEXT and point to the file or directory you want to share, and click NEXT
4. Do NOT tick “private torrent”
5. Do tick “allow decentralized tracking”
6. Save the torrent and send it to your friends
Happy sharing. Note that you don’t need to upload the torrent to a website or a tracker. This means you control who gets the file and who doesn’t, and it won’t be visible to others!.
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Stupid question is it possible to remove a torrent once its been downloaded. ie I have created a torrent for someone but now i dont want it to be downloaded by anyone else is this possible ?
[quote comment="262585"]Stupid question is it possible to remove a torrent once its been downloaded. ie I have created a torrent for someone but now i dont want it to be downloaded by anyone else is this possible ?[/quote]
Request a website owner to remove the torrent. In such case you should have not uploaded the .torrent file but rather send it via email to that person. Once he (they) finishes download noone else will dl your files.
Note a difference between .torrent file which may be uploaded e.g. to mininova, piratebay or may be sent via email or put on your website. The latter is private manner.
Hi to all,
I`ve got a little question (like many people here :))
So, does anybody know how to get statistics for some torrent, some thing like torrentz.com.
They have statistics for one torrent from many different torrent trackers.
When someone uses your torrent, are you uploading?
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hey i’ve got a question can you put several trackers in one torrent when your making it and how?????
Oh and if anyone wants to share some public files try out this new torrents site that just started.Link is below…
http://gamez.exofire.net
[quote comment="254028"]I made a torrent to share with a friend but He can’t connect to it, I have Peers 0 (1) So i see him but he doesn’t connect… I have azureus, Help please[/quote]
i have the same problem. I’ve used utorrent and azureus with the same result: a .torrent that i can send but there are no connections on the other end 0(1)
Well the thing is, Ads pay $
So I want to be like all other free torrent tracker websites… making the huge dollars from ads…
But first, I need to know how to actually ‘track’ a torrent for people to come to my website…
I have my own server… and am skilled in HTML, Java (?) and a few other website programming languages…
It would be dandy if someone could fill me in… on how to write a tracking script into my website…
Also im aware that this type of thing is probably illegal for sharing copyrighted data… but that is not my goal.
If anyone could help please email
ftp1337@gmail.com
(Dont bother trying to do anything with that email… because as im typing this, I am connected to many proxies… So my identity is well… not an identity… :) as well as it will be checking my email :P)
Thanks for the long reading time you have spent.
Hi, I have used this TuT to create a torrent in Azureus and I can see it seeding, but how do I send this to my friends so they can start to download this from me? =\ Please Help
DeHacked’s experimental script can be found at here
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/bittornado/webseed-0.9a.zip
http://torrentbitss.com
thanks brother.
im learning to share some of my own made torrents .
peace,
god bless,
JJ
thnx
Hey there all,
I managed to upload a torrent (YAY), it’s doing fine and rather happily seeding mininova right now. I also uploaded it to seedpeer, and it’ll show up with 2 seeds (not true!) and 6 peers, but when I click on the actual file to get to the download link and more information, its saying 0 seeds, 0 peers…. I’m using uTorrent, and everytime I try to d’load the torrent like sven said in 138 above to get rid of the “dead torrent”, I’m adding the trackers, but it’s not updating on seedpeer… Should I be worried about that since it seems to be updating their main page, but not the individual link?
I also gave up on the Initial Seeding option - I’d started off with that checked and *nothing* was being uploaded - I had about between 4 and 7 peers at any that time, and I think they gave up on me! So yes, I’m going to have to sit here with it available for longer on my comp, but it’s time I gave back to the community, eh? (^_~)
that was great created my torrent in inutes just what i needed.
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Thanx 4 this info…
And, yeah… f*ck make torrent, bullshit programme
Thanx 4 this info…
And, yeah… f*ck make torrent, bullshit programme
Hello TorrentFreak
I am fan of this website. this website really helped me a lot. Especially when I downloaded a FAKE aXXo file. I just wanna sk how long should I seed my newly created torrent?
THANKS!
This question may have been answered but I just wanted to know:
What are torrents for? I have downloaded a lot and I understand most of how to use them but the one thing I don’t understand is why do you use another website as a torrent? I just don’t see how my file can be downloaded using it. Please answer this on hrlizard29@hotmail.com thanks. If you can’t or won’t use the email then just answer it on this.
well its sound easy how you have described to upload the torrent to a tracker (no offend).
but i have been trying for the past two weeks without any success to upload my torrent.
as soon as i try to upload there is an error comes up on the bit torrent.
i am using Utorrent bit torrent client.
if you can help me i would appreciate it and send you my email address if you preferred.
please let me know here i will come back and check this site again.
many many thanks.
When im in creatin such a torrent file, how can i add files that are NOT on my hdd but on my 24-7 online ftp server?
cannot enter web addresses as “file to add”
but i want it to be available round the clock., not only if my system is on.
wanna post the torrent file (leading to the file on the ftp) on my homepage
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