Torrentspy (Software)
Open-Source Software, Microsoft Windows, Perl
Betascript Publishing
Published on 12. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
124 pages
978-613-2-12543-9 (ISBN)
Description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles
available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. TorrentSpy was an
open-source software application for the Microsoft Windows platform,
written by Rick Osborne originally in March 2003 in Perl, but quickly
rewritten in Delphi and released for general use the following April.
Regular updates to the application were released until January 2004 when
the author considered the application to be "feature complete" and
discontinued development. Currently, there are some projects (e.g.
Torrent Loader) which are based on the same idea as TorrentSpy, and that
are still actively developed. The application was written to provide a
more comprehensive listing of the attributes for torrent files, as the
BitTorrent GUI's at the time were still very primitive. It also was the
first application to use the "scrape" functionality that most BitTorrent
trackers published to show the current active user count for each
torrent. Most of the application's features were integrated into
BitTorrent clients over time and are now considered essential by most
BitTorrent users.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
203 gr
ISBN-13
978-613-2-12543-9 (9786132125439)
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