smarthash

SmartHash is a command line application for the BitTorrent Peer-to-Peer network. It allows users to more easily prepare and publish content and metadata

Capabilities include:

• Creating metadata (.torrent) files Identifying audio and video files Extracting screenshots from video files Extracting mediainfo and tagging information Parsing accompanying release information, extracting IMDb IDs

Handlers

Smarthash uses pluggable handlers, allowing for custom actions in different usage scenarios. By default, a .torrent file is saved. An additional provided handler writes out the .torrent, screenshots, MediaInfo and NFO to a folder.

Custom handlers can be dropped into the application (for example, allowing automatic publication of your content to an Internet-based site). Audio metadata or screenshots could also be automatically uploaded. Where necessary, additional command line parameters can be captured by the handler.

Metadata

Audio-specific metadata is extracted, and provided as a parameter to the handers.

A set of screenshots are extracted from each video file. These can be useful for estimating quality before downloading a torrent - candidates are selected using a Laplacian transform/variance calculation, which effectively extracts a useful selection.

Usage instructions

Windows installation

• Download and install Python 3.6.5 (or later) - https://www.python.org/downloads
• Download and install Git - https://git-scm.com/download/win
• In your C:, right click, and select "Git Bash Here" from the context menu
• Install virtualenv for Python, by entering: pip install virtualenv
• Clone the SmartHash repository, by entering: git clone https://github.com/spiritualized/smarthash.git
• Run win-install.bat to set up the virtualenv
• Add C:\smarthash to your PATH

Linux

• Clone the repo
• Create a virtualenv (use -p python3) and install from requirements.txt

Usage examples

• smarthash "C:\My Home Movies"