How to create a torrent without tracker on Transmission? - torrent

Question

I'm trying to create a torrent without a tracker. I just want to send some GoPro footage to a friend of mine but I can't get it working.
I've created a torrent with nothing in the tracker field and set the torrent to public, private is unchecked. I sent myself the file to test downloading it on another computer.
I can't get it to work. I've opened my port, when I run the test, it says the port's open on both my laptop and desktop. I've got a static IP on the desktop which is where the torrent was created and is being shared, and I emailed it to myself. I'm running Transmission on both, but one is Windows and one is Mac.
Any ideas why I can't get it to work? DHT is enabled on both.

Answer 1

Transmission is not the best option for that i advice you to use mktorrent faster and more reliable all my time using it it never failed
but if you want to use transmission as a seeder or a uploader client you can use this php script and just edit it to save the torrent files in transmission watch folder or any folder that you want
<?php
define('ROOT_DIR', '/home');
define('SCAN_DIR', ROOT_DIR.'/scan');
define('COMPLETE_DIR', ROOT_DIR.'/complete');
define('TORRENT_DIR', ROOT_DIR.'/torrent');
define('ANNOUNCE_URL', 'YOUR-TRACKER-ANNOUNCE-AND-PASSKEY-HERE');
define('PIECE_SIZE', '21');
function move($source, $dest) {
$cmd = 'mv "'.$source.'" "'.$dest.'"';
exec($cmd, $output, $return_val);
if ($return_val == 0) return 1;
return 0;
}
function make_torrent($file_full, $new_dir, $file) {
$file = pathinfo($file_full, PATHINFO_BASENAME);
$move_file = $new_dir.'/'.$file;
$rez = move($file_full, $move_file);
if (!$rez) die('Cannot move file!');
$info = pathinfo($file);
$output = TORRENT_DIR.'/'.$info['basename'].'.torrent';
if (file_exists($output)) unlink($output);
$cmd = "mktorrent '$move_file' -o '$output'-l".PIECE_SIZE." -a ".ANNOUNCE_URL;
echo $cmd."<br /> <br /> \n \n";
exec($cmd);
if (file_exists($output)) return $output;
else die('Cannot make torrent!');
}
function scan_folder() {
$dir = SCAN_DIR;
$dir_done = COMPLETE_DIR;
if (!is_dir($dir_done))
{
$ok = mkdir($dir_done);
if (!$ok) die('Cannot create destination folder!');
}
$dh = opendir($dir);
while ( $file = readdir($dh) )
{
if ($file == '.' || $file == '..') continue;
$file_full = $dir.'/'.$file;
if ($file_full == COMPLETE_DIR) continue;
make_torrent($file_full, $dir_done, $file);
}
}
scan_folder();
?>
you can ignore the tracker lines or just delete them the script is more or less self explanatory if you need any help please ask away
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