Thread: Automatically generate torrents for cross seeding

If you have several sites with fast pre times and want to use that advantage to upload to other sites, you need to generate a new torrent file for the other site. To get both torrent files to seed at the same time, you need to use a different piece size than the original.

To do this, go grab mktorrent (for linux or windows) and go to the upload section of the target site to get the announce URL. Then, in your client have it execute the following command when it finishes downloading:

mktorrent -a <the destination tracker's URL here> -l 18 -p -v %D

The %D is what utorrent uses for the directory where the files were saved. Other clients may be different. The -l parameter is the piece size. If 18 doesn't allow you to upload to two different trackers, try 17 or 19.

Now every time a torrent finishes, it will create a new torrent file you can use to upload to your other slower trackers. Add that torrent to your client, then upload it to the target site.



Note: Where the torrent file is saved depends on the system, so you may need to play around with it. I actually wrote a batch file myself and use that to change to the proper directory, copy the nfo, generate torrents for multiple sites, etc.

*Free bonus tip for windows users: make a batch file that runs mktorrent and put that in your sendto folder. Then you can right-click any folder, choose send to your batch file, and generate a new torrent!