tracker

This is a BitTorrent tracker that relies on PostgreSQL for persistence. All announced torrents will be tracked automatically. The HTTP server provides a torrent index list with magnet metadata support on the / route by default.

Features

• HTTP Tracker: Allows tracking of torrents over HTTP.
• Compact Peer Format: Utilizes a compact format for representing peers in the tracker.
• Scrape: Supports scraping information from the tracker.
• UDP Tracker
• IPv6

Environment Variables

• ADDRESS (default: 0.0.0.0:9999): Specifies the address and port for the tracker.
• ANNOUNCE_URL (default: http://localhost:9999/announce): Used for magnet links in the index view.
• DSN (default: postgres://tracker:tracker@localhost:5432/tracker): PostgreSQL connection string.
• TEMPLATE_PATH (default: ../templates/): Path to the template files.
• STATIC_PATH (default: ../static/): Path to static files.

Installation

Local

1. Run go mod download && go build -v -o ./dist/tracker ./cmd.
2. The application can be found under the dist directory.

Docker

1. Configure the environment variables under the backend block in docker-compose.yml.
2. Run docker compose up.