BitTorrent Statistics: Bitsmash

Official website: http://bitsmash.com/

Bitsmash is a statistics and research project for BitTorrent, a web-based peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing system.

Goal: Offer centralized BitTorrent statistics.

Snapshot:



Bitsmash is eventually going to provide an XML-API for BitTorrent statistics. Right now, this site (shown) is in a somewhat "beta"-status for testing and consistency.

Keep in mind that this is NOT a project to promote copyright-infringement or piracy, nor to combat it. We are merely a third-party that provides statistics of all BitTorrent traffic, regardless of content. We do not redistribute any such content or even offer the '.torrent' files from which such content could be recreated or copied.

How can I link to an information/statistics page?

You need to use the ' magnet-link' hash for a '.torrent' file. There are various ways to compute this, and many sites/trackers provide it for you automatically.
Once you have it, you can get link to:

http://bitsmash.com/info/<INSERT MAGNET HERE>/

...and the site will do the rest! Also, if you have the magnet code or link already -- just copy'n'paste it into any search-box on the site.

BTW:
The magnet: URI scheme is a draft open standard defining a URI scheme for magnet links, which are mainly used to reference resources available for download via peer-to-peer networks. Such a link typically identifies a file not by location or name, but by content, more precisely by the content's hash value.

Since it refers to a file based on content or metadata, rather than by location, a magnet link can be considered a kind of Uniform Resource Name, rather than the more common Uniform Resource Locators. Although it could be used for other applications, it is particularly useful in a peer-to-peer context, because it allows resources to be referenced without the need for a continuously available host.

The standard was developed in 2002, partly as a "vendor- and project-neutral generalization" of the ed2k: and freenet: URI schemes used by eDonkey2000 and Freenet, respectively, and attempts to follow official IETF URI standards as closely as possible. Applications supporting magnet links include Vuze, BearShare, DC++, gtk-gnutella, Kazaa, LimeWire, FrostWire, Morpheus, Shareaza, KCeasy, TrustyFiles and uTorrent.