What other BitTorrent-related utilities are out there?
• TorrentSpy – Recommended! An MS Windows tool which allows you to query a tracker about a specific torrent, view metadata info, check a file’s hashes, etc. A new feature is the “create” tab for making torrent files to upload. • maketorrent – A utility for creating torrent files, by the author of the burst! client. Version 1.x of MakeTorrent was a modified version of the Python ‘completedir’ program with extra features. Version 2.x is a complete rewrite in Delphi. Highly recommended! • completedir 1.0.1 – A utility for creating new .torrent files, part of the official BitTorrent client package. This is packaged as a Windows installer, get the source code for use with other platforms. • BNBT – This is a C++ implementation of a BitTorrent tracker. It should compile under most any Unix with GCC available, as well as MS Windows with MSVC (binaries included.) It includes all of the functionality of the reference Python tracker, but it also includes many enhancements: user accounts, improved
