wt-tracker

High-performance WebTorrent tracker.

WebTorrent tracker is a required component of WebTorrent and P2P Media Loader (peer-to-peer networks for web browsers) to do WebRTC signaling - exchanging connection data (i.e. SDP) between peers - joining them into swarms.

Features

• handles more than 40k WebSocket Secure (HTTPS) peers on a VPS with only 2 GiB memory and 1 virtual CPU thanks to uWebSockets.js I/O backend and perfomance optimizations in the code
• handles ws:// (HTTP) and wss:// (HTTPS) connections simultaneously
• IPv4 and IPv6 support
• robust and well-tested: CI, unit tests, static code analyzis, 100% TypeScript
• supports tracker "scrape" extension
• statistics under /stats.json URL

Related projects

• P2P Media Loader - an open-source engine for P2P streaming of live and on demand video directly in a web browser HTML page
• Novage, LLC - P2P development, support & consulting
• WebTorrent - streaming torrent client for the web https://webtorrent.io
• uWebSockets.js - the Node.js bindings to µWebSockets, one of the most efficient web servers available

Build instructions

Node.js 10+ is required.

npm install
npm run build

Run instructions

./bin/wt-tracker [config.json]

or

node dist/run-uws-tracker.js [config.json]

or

npm start [config.json]

Configuration

See config.json

|Name|Type|Description| |----|----|-----------| |servers.websockets.path|string|URL pattern for the WebSockets endpoint| |servers.websockets.maxPayloadLength|number|The maximum length of received message| |servers.websockets.midleTimeout|number|The maximum amount of seconds that may pass without sending or getting a message. Being idle for more than this, and the connection is severed.| |servers.websockets.compression|0,1,2|0 = no compression, 1 = shared compressor, 2 = dedicated compressor (see details)| |servers.websockets.maxConnections|number|The maximum number of WebSocket connections. 0 = no limit.| |tracker.maxOffers|number|The maximum number of client's WebRTC SDP offers that are processed| |tracker.announceInterval|number|Desired announce interval in seconds required from the clients|

Index HTML page

You can specify a content of the index page by creating

index.html