Torrust Index

Torrust Index, is a library for BitTorrent Files. Written in Rust Language with the axum web framework. This index aims to be respectful to established standards, (both formal and otherwise).

This is a Torrust project and is in active development. It is community supported as well as sponsored by Nautilus Cyberneering.

About

The core purpose of a BitTorrent Index is to maintain a database that connects torrent files with useful metadata. Allowing a community of users to keep track their torrents in a well organized and informative manner.

The Torrust Index serves a high-level api for our Torrust Index GUI client. It also connects to the management api of our Torrust Tracker, to provide statistic and whitelisting functionally.

Key Features

• High Quality and Modern Rust Codebase.
• Documentation Generated from Code Comments.
• Comprehensive Suit of Unit and Functional Tests.
• Good Performance in Busy Conditions.
• Native IPv4 and IPv6 support.
• Persistent SQLite3 or MySQL Databases.

Getting Started

Upgrading

If you are using Version 1 of torrust-tracker-backend, please view our upgrading guide.

Container Version

The Torrust Index is deployed to DockerHub, you can run a demo immediately with the following commands:

Docker:

docker run -it torrust/index:develop

Please read our container guide for more information.

Podman:

podman run -it torrust/index:develop

Please read our container guide for more information.

Development Version

• Please assure you have the latest stable (or nightly) version of rust.
• Please assure that you computer has enough ram. Recommended 16GB.

Checkout, Test and Run:

# Checkout repository into a new folder:
git clone https://github.com/torrust/torrust-index.git

# Change into directory and create a empty database file:
cd torrust-index
mkdir -p ./storage/index/lib/database/
touch ./storage/index/lib/database/sqlite3.db

# Check all tests in application:
cargo test --tests --benches --examples --workspace --all-targets --all-features

# Run the index:
cargo run

Customization:

# Copy the default configuration into the standard location:
mkdir -p ./storage/index/etc/
cp ./share/default/config/index.development.sqlite3.toml ./storage/index/etc/index.toml

# Customize the index configuration (for example):
vim ./storage/index/etc/index.toml

# Run the index with the updated configuration:
TORRUST_INDEX_PATH_CONFIG="./storage/index/etc/index.toml" cargo run

Optionally, you may choose to supply the entire configuration as an environmental variable:

# Use a configuration supplied on an environmental variable:
TORRUST_INDEX_CONFIG=$(cat "./storage/index/etc/index.toml") cargo run

For deployment you should override the tracker_api_token by using an environmental variable:

# Please use the secret that you generated for the torrust-tracker configuration.
# Override secret in configuration using an environmental variable
TORRUST_INDEX_CONFIG=$(cat "./storage/index/etc/index.toml") \
  TORRUST_INDEX_TRACKER_API_TOKEN=$(cat "./storage/tracker/lib/tracker_api_admin_token.secret") \
  cargo run

Please view our crate documentation for more detailed instructions.

Services

The following services are provided by the default configuration:

• API
  • http://127.0.0.1:3001/.

Documentation

• API (Version 1)

Contributing

We are happy to support and welcome new people to our project. Please consider our contributor guide.
This is an open-source community supported project. We welcome contributions from the community!

How can you contribute?

• Bug reports and feature requests.
• Code contributions. You can start by looking at the issues labeled "good first issues".
• Documentation improvements. Check the documentation and API documentation for typos, errors, or missing information.
• Participation in the community. You can help by answering questions in the discussions.

License

Copyright (c) 2023 The Torrust Developers.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Some files include explicit copyright notices and/or license notices.

Legacy Exception

For prosperity, versions of Torrust Tracker that are older than five years are automatically granted the MIT-0 license in addition to the existing AGPL-3.0-only license.

Contributor Agreement

The copyright of the Torrust Tracker is retained by the respective authors.

Contributors agree:

• That all their contributions be granted a license(s) compatible with the Torrust Trackers License.
• That all contributors signal clearly and explicitly any other compilable licenses if they are not: AGPL-3.0-only with the legacy MIT-0 exception.

The Torrust-Tracker project has no copyright assignment agreement.

We kindly ask you to take time and consider The Torrust Project Contributor Agreement in full.

Acknowledgments

This project was a joint effort by Nautilus Cyberneering GmbH and Dutch Bits.