torrentMonitor: Tracking torrent user downloads

Carlos Cilleruelo
7 min readOct 31, 2020

Python and elasticsearch for torrent tracking

A few weeks ago I read a news about how new Disney’s Mulan has become one of the most pirated films in all history. The previous article presented some stats about user downloads, and I always thought about doing something similar. So let’s see how we can create our tracker system.

Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash

BitTorrent protocol

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Carlos Cilleruelo

Bachelor of Computer Science and MSc on Cyber Security. Currently working as a cybersecurity researcher at the University of Alcalá.