Node.js implementation of the BitTorrent DHT protocol. BitTorrent DHT is the main peer discovery layer for BitTorrent, which allows for trackerless torrents. DHTs are awesome!
This module is used by WebTorrent.
- complete implementation of the DHT protocol in JavaScript
- follows the spec
- supports BEP44 for storing arbitrary data in the DHT
- robust and well-tested
- Comprehensive, fully-offline test suite
- Used by WebTorrent, peerflix, and Playback
- efficient recursive lookup algorithm minimizes UDP traffic
- supports multiple, concurrent lookups using the same routing table
Also see bittorrent-tracker.
npm install bittorrent-dht
npm install magnet-uri
var DHT = require('bittorrent-dht')
var magnet = require('magnet-uri')
var uri = 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e3811b9539cacff680e418124272177c47477157'
var parsed = magnet(uri)
console.log(parsed.infoHash) // 'e3811b9539cacff680e418124272177c47477157'
var dht = new DHT()
dht.listen(20000, function () {
console.log('now listening')
})
dht.on('peer', function (peer, infoHash, from) {
console.log('found potential peer ' + peer.host + ':' + peer.port + ' through ' + from.address + ':' + from.port)
})
// find peers for the given torrent info hash
dht.lookup(parsed.infoHash)
Create a new dht
instance.
If opts
is specified, then the default options (shown below) will be overridden.
{
nodeId: '', // 160-bit DHT node ID (Buffer or hex string, default: randomly generated)
bootstrap: [], // bootstrap servers (default: router.bittorrent.com:6881, router.utorrent.com:6881, dht.transmissionbt.com:6881)
host: false, // host of local peer, if specified then announces get added to local table (String, disabled by default)
concurrency: 16, // k-rpc option to specify maximum concurrent UDP requests allowed (Number, 16 by default)
hash: Function, // custom hash function to use (Function, SHA1 by default),
krpc: krpc(), // optional k-rpc instance
timeBucketOutdated: 900000, // check buckets every 15min
maxAge: Infinity // optional setting for announced peers to time out
}
To use dht_store
, set opts.verify
to an ed25519 supercop/ref10
implementation. opts.verify(signature, value, publicKey)
should return a
boolean whether the signature
and value buffers
were generated by the
publicKey
.
For example, for dht_store
you can do:
var ed = require('ed25519-supercop')
var dht = new DHT({ verify: ed.verify })
Find peers for the given info hash.
This does a recursive lookup in the DHT. Potential peers that are discovered are emitted
as peer
events. See the peer
event below for more info.
infoHash
can be a string or Buffer. callback
is called when the recursive lookup has
terminated, and is called with two paramaters. The first is an Error
or null. The second
is the number of nodes found that had peers. You usually don't need to use this info and
can simply listen for peer
events.
Returns an abort()
function that would allow us to abort the query.
Make the DHT listen on the given port
. If port
is undefined, an available port is
automatically picked.
If address
is undefined, the DHT will try to listen on all addresses.
If onlistening
is defined, it is attached to the listening
event.
Returns an object containing the address information for the listening socket of the DHT.
This object contains address
, family
and port
properties.
Announce that the peer, controlling the querying node, is downloading a torrent on a port.
If you omit port
the implied port option will be set and other peers will use the public
dht port as your announced port.
If dht.announce
is called soon (< 5 minutes) after dht.lookup
, then the routing table
generated during the lookup can be re-used, because the "tokens" sent by each node will
still be valid.
If dht.announce
is called and there is no cached routing table, then a dht.lookup
will
first be performed to discover relevant nodes and get valid "tokens" from each of them.
This will take longer.
A "token" is an opaque value that must be presented for a node to announce that its controlling peer is downloading a torrent. It must present the token received from the same queried node in a recent query for peers. This is to prevent malicious hosts from signing up other hosts for torrents. All token management is handled internally by this module.
callback
will be called when the announce operation has completed, and is called with
a single parameter that is an Error
or null.
Returns the current state of the DHT, including DHT nodes and BEP44 values.
{
"nodes": [],
"values": {}
}
The DHT nodes, in particular, are useful for persisting the DHT to disk between restarts
of a BitTorrent client (as recommended by the spec). Each node in the array is an object
with host
(string) and port
(number) properties.
To restore the DHT nodes when instantiating a new DHT
object, simply loop over the nodes in the array and add them with the addNode
method.
var dht1 = new DHT()
// some time passes ...
// destroy the dht
var nodes = dht1.toJSON().nodes
dht1.destroy()
// some time passes ...
// initialize a new dht with the same routing table as the first
var dht2 = new DHT()
nodes.forEach(function (node) {
dht2.addNode(node)
})
Manually add a node to the DHT routing table. If there is space in the routing table (or
an unresponsive node can be evicted to make space), the node will be added. If not, the
node will not be added. This is useful to call when a peer wire sends a PORT
message to
share their DHT port.
A node should look like this:
{
host: nodeHost,
port: nodePort
}
Destroy the DHT. Closes the socket and cleans up large data structure resources.
Write an arbitrary payload to the DHT. (BEP 44).
For all requests, you must specify:
opts.v
- a buffer payload to write, less than 1000 bytes
If you only specify opts.v
, the content is considered immutable and the hash
will just be the hash of the content.
Here is a simple example of creating some immutable content on the dht:
var DHT = require('bittorrent-dht')
var dht = new DHT()
var value = Buffer.alloc(200).fill('abc')
dht.put({ v: value }, function (err, hash) {
console.error('error=', err)
console.log('hash=', hash)
})
For mutable content, the hash will be the hash of the public key, opts.k
.
These options are available:
opts.k
- ed25519 public key buffer (32 bytes) (REQUIRED)opts.sign(buf)
- function to generate an ed25519 signature buffer (64 bytes) corresponding to theopts.k
public key (REQUIRED)opts.seq
- optional sequence (integer), must monotonically increase (REQUIRED)opts.cas
- optional previous sequence for compare-and-swapopts.salt
- optional salt buffer to include (<= 64 bytes) when calculating the hash of the content. You can use a salt to have multiple mutable addresses for the same public keyopts.k
.
Note that bittorrent bep44 uses ed25519. You can use the ed25519-supercop package to generate the appropriate signatures, bittorrent-dht-store-keypair, bittorrent-dht-sodium or for a more convenient version.
To make a mutable update, you will need to create an elliptic key and pack values precisely according to the specification, like so:
var ed = require('bittorrent-dht-sodium')
var keypair = ed.keygen()
var value = Buffer.alloc(200).fill('whatever') // the payload you want to send
var opts = {
k: keypair.pk,
seq: 0,
v: value,
sign: function (buf) {
return ed.sign(buf, keypair.sk)
}
}
var DHT = require('bittorrent-dht')
var dht = new DHT
dht.put(opts, function (err, hash) {
console.error('error=', err)
console.log('hash=', hash)
})
In either mutable or immutable forms, callback(error, hash, n)
fires with an
error
if no nodes were able to store the value
. n
is set the amount of peers
that accepted the put
and hash
, the location where the mutable or immutable
content can be retrieved (with dht.get(hash)
).
Note that you should call .put()
every hour for content that you want to keep
alive, since nodes may discard data nodes older than 2 hours.
If you receive a key/value pair and you want to re-add to the dht it to keep it
alive you can just put
it again.
var ed = require('bittorrent-dht-sodium')
var dht = new DHT({ verify: ed.verify }) // you MUST specify the "verify" param if you want to get mutable content, otherwise null will be returned
dht.get(key, function (err, res) {
dht.put(res, function () {
// re-added the key/value pair
})
})
Read a data record (created with .put()
) from the DHT.
(BEP 44)
Given hash
, a hex string or buffer, lookup data content from the DHT, sending the
result in callback(err, res)
.
These options are available:
opts.verify
- override the default ed25519 verification function supplied during DHT instantiation.opts.salt
- optional salt buffer (if any) that was used to calculate the hash. Must be specified if included in the hash.opts.cache
- use locally cached response value when available instead of performing a network lookup (defaults to true).
res
objects are similar to the options objects written to the DHT with
.put()
:
res.v
- the value put inres.id
- the node that returned the contentres.k
- the public key (only present for mutable data)res.sig
- the signature (only present for mutable data)res.seq
- the sequence (optional, only present for mutable data)
Emitted when the DHT is fully bootstrapped (i.e. the routing table is sufficiently populated via the bootstrap nodes). Note that it is okay to do lookups before the 'ready' event fires.
Note: If you initialize the DHT with the { bootstrap: false }
option, then the 'ready'
event will fire on the next tick even if there are not any nodes in the routing table.
It is assumed that you will manually populate the routing table with dht.addNode
if you
pass this option.
Emitted when the DHT is listening.
Emitted when a potential peer is found. peer
is of the form {host, port}
.
infoHash
is the torrent info hash of the swarm that the peer belongs to. Emitted
in response to a lookup(infoHash)
call.
Emitted when the DHT has a fatal error.
Emitted when the DHT finds a new node.
Emitted when a peer announces itself in order to be stored in the DHT.
Emitted when the DHT gets an unexpected message from another DHT node. This is purely informational.
MIT. Copyright (c) Feross Aboukhadijeh, Mathias Buus, and WebTorrent, LLC.