A Way to Share BitTorrent Syncs | Hacker News Reader

A Way to Share BitTorrent Syncs

12char.com

48 pointsmistabrando31 comments

It would be great if there were a way to create Sync links; if I could click on "sync:XXXXXXXXXXXX" and have it automatically start syncing to that secret, then Sync would be incredibly easy to use for stuff like this.

This is not supposed to replace torrents although it just might.

It has some real advantages, though. The ability to change the content and to let other people upload things to one folder is really cool and not easily done through torrents.

Yep. All developers around Sync are waiting for API and URI.

I have written a plain text to base64 encoder here : http://www.getbitcoin.info/assets/misc/base64generator.html

Soo.. instead of sharing keys, you can just share keywords and then generate the keys from the keywords. It's just javascript that I based on another base64 encoding example. Feel free to use as long as I get a credit somewhere.

Be aware there is currently a bug where read-only secrets can be used to add files to a share at the time of joining. Be sure to backup your shared folders early and often!

Napster emerged as a way to search open filesystem shares. We need something similar for BT Sync points.

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to do this! Beware of people deleting all your stuff; use read only secrets.

BT Sync is missing one thing : the ability to choose which files to sync from a remote secret.

I think we need a BitTorrent Sync to share BitTorrent Sync secrets.

https://github.com/vrypan/btsync-keys

being shared at RR745RPH5URZVEWS7NSY2KR2V3DKKPBGU

I went ahead and did it. Got to town: P4L5HYCHHJXXYQI43MYLJMNSKALYQL5V

How secure/stable is this? I'd like to run it as a Dropbox alternative to synchronize files between my computers, and love the fact that it's just an executable.

I am still expecting them to make it possible to have a folder synced(backed up only) without requiring a RW key to be created.

If you only want a backup, why can't you create a read-only key and send that to the backup host?

a write key will be created nonetheless, i did made a request on their forum for such a feature

If anybody has suggestions for site please contact me!

All tags list and count of keys per tag. Count of keys per share & info if R or RW. I think RW don't belong here...

Some edit or delete link for submitter to be returned upon creation. (Actually, did not notice if it was there)

A thing would either be standardizing some keywords or showing some sort of tag cloud of popular ones.

Remove google analitics and stop telling google club what people is sharing.

Why didn't I think of this? Seems so obvious after the fact.

Yeah I was thinking about doing it as soon as I heard about it, but I was lazy, and he beat us both to it.

I just drop it here: http://btsnc.at/

Actually this is mine aproach to do something webbish with bittorrent sync. I do it because lots of people who don't understand what to do with this "secrets".

So I randomly set the ID in the URL to http://btsnc.at/11 and got a secret: RXSYSTTQYRSRY4PU7DMW32GUVXOBHI4GX

Is that a valid secret.. I don't know. But if it is.. then not much of a secret if I can get one by just guessing btsnc.at URLs!

Well. This is your choice to PUBLISH your "secret". As you can notice usualy everybody write "secret" with quotas. Because "secret" is realy not so "secret".

If you publish your ssh key than it wouldn't be a secret either.

Nice. It would be great if it said the file size of the folder!

Once BitTorrent Sync releases their web API, I'll see what I can do

Brilliant work sir.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com