Here at ALE we’re getting ready for our big 1.0 release, and to ease the transition from BitTorrent to Anomos, I’ve just committed a new script which will convert a .torrent file or a directory full of .torrent files to .atorrent files which use our tracker.
As The Pirate Bay released their own database of torrents, with this script, it would be easy to move the world’s largest collection of torrent data to Anomos format with a single command. If anybody is interested and tries this experiment, send me an email and let me know how it went.
To use the script, get the latest version of Anomos from the testing git branch (see the Downloads page), and then run:
python anomosify.py --path /path/to/torrent/directory/
and watch it go! You can also use the –announce argument to supply a different announce URL.
Keep your eyes open, we should be releasing the complete 1.0 documentation some time in the next week for all you hackers and geeks interested in the design of Anomos networks.
Rich!
so did someone convert it already?
or is there an atorrent search running somewhere already?
I am wondering the same thing, I cant find a .atorrent search site anywhere. I would use this program but if there is no torrents or tutorials on how to swtich them its useless.
I’ve tried it but it won’t convert my torrents, and without atorrents Anomos is still a great idea but pretty much useless. I’d be endlessly grateful if a program/tutorial/command were developed to convert torrents.
Yeah good. How do I run this script. I’m on OSX. I have Anomos and python running. I open a Terminal window because this looks like a command line driven instruction and I get,
e.g.
> python anomosify.py –path /Users/customer/Downloads/
> python: can’t open file ‘anomosify.py’: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
customers-MacBook-Pro:~ customer$
as a result. I’m not a Noob, just bloody old so help an old bugger out and show me what I’m doing wrong. (yes I know, > is not a Mac prompt…)
… and the command was, python anomosify.py -–path /Users/customer/Downloads/
with two — as listed above in the instructions.