Allow torrent metadata from a hash (or magnet reference)? Ideally in python

Question

I am trying to take a link to a magnet (i.e. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:640FE84C613C17F663551D218689A64E8AEBEABE ) and extract the metadata for it (title, files, comment, everything else comes with a .torrent file). Ideal in python, but I will take any information I can get

Answer 1

• libtorrent
• python bindings

Welcome.

Answer 2

Check out Magnet2Torrent , which uses python and python-libtorrent to download the torrent file for any magnet uri that it is set to.