Direct Connect (DC) is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol. Direct Connect clients connect to a central hub and can download files directly from one another. -- Wikipedia
Txconnect runs as a daemon on your server computer. Unlike other DC++ software that I could find on Linux it can handle sharing 4TiB without freaking out. It supports these features:
- NMDC protocol (ADC not yet supported)
- Web UI that allows you to chat and download files from your browser
- JSON REST API to control from scripts
- Plugin system
Tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and Mac OS X.
Download this code and install in a virtualenv. Install all the needed 3rd party libraries via pip.
git clone <git url>
cd Txconnect
pip install virtualenv
virtualenv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
To run the app
PYTHONPATH=. venv/bin/twistd --nodaemon txconnect
Once you run it once, there will be a config file in ~/.txconnect/config.yml where you can set what hubs you want to connect to.
The easiest way to use the API is in a python script. You can import the
txconnect.api_client. Here's an example script that will do a search for
"foobar" and show the results.
import pprint
from txconnect.api_client import ApiClient
client = ApiClient('http://localhost:9000/api')
pprint.pprint(client.search("Foobar"))
http://nmdc.sourceforge.net/NMDC.html
http://github.com/blakef/pydirectconnect http://github.com/rlane/dci
This project is old. The original repo was in darcs start Fri Apr 8 14:00:51 2005. 2005! When I finally published this in 2014 on github I wiped the old history to make sure any hardcoded values where not also pushed out for all to see.
The websocket based WebUI was written in 2010.