Converting a magnet link

If you’re using Ubuntu Linux, you can easily convert a torrent magnet link to a torrent file using a simple bash script. This is useful if you want to download a torrent file without having to open a web browser, or in my case, I use rTorrent which is a CLI torrent client for Linux.

To create the script, open a terminal window and type the following command:

nano magnet2torrent.sh

This will create a new file called magnet2torrent.sh. Open the file and paste the following code:

#!/bin/bash

#################################
#                               #
# Bash script to convert a      #
# magnet link to a torrent file #
#                               #
#  StrickStuff.com              #
#                               #
#################################


# Check that the user entered a valid magnet link
if [ "$#" -ne 1 ] || [ ! -z "${1##*magnet*}" ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 "
    exit 1
fi

# Extract the info hash from the magnet link
hash="${1##*btih:}"
hash="${hash%%&*}"

# Download the torrent file from a torrent website
torrent_file="${hash}.torrent"
wget "https://itorrents.org/torrent/${hash}.torrent" -O "$torrent_file"

echo "Torrent file written to ${torrent_file}"

Save the file and exit the editor. To make the script executable, type the following command:

chmod +x magnet2torrent

Now you can use the script to convert a torrent magnet link to a torrent file. To do this, type the following command:

./magnet2torrent<magnet_link>

For example, to convert the magnet link magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0123456789ABCDEF to a torrent file, you would type the following command:

./magnet2torrent magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0123456789ABCDEF

The script will create a new torrent file called 0123456789ABCDEF.torrent in the current directory. You can then open the torrent file in a torrent client to download the files.

This is just a simple example of how you can use a bash script to convert a torrent magnet link to a torrent file. You can customize the script to meet your own needs. For example, you could add code to check if the torrent file already exists before creating it. You could also add code to extract the metadata from the torrent file and write it to a text file.