A PowerShell module for working with torrent files and other bencoded files.
Wv.Bencodekit was born because I wanted to work with torrent files in PowerShell. It was based on @rchouinard’s bencode library for PHP. Eventhough it was meant for working with torrent files, it should work equally well for any file with bencoded data.
To use Wv.Bencodekit, download this repo and place the Wv.Bencodekit subfolder anywhere you like on your system. Open a PowerShell session and import the module by typing Import-Module 'Location\Of\Module\Wv.Bencodekit'. Then parse a torrent file by entering $Torrent = ConvertFrom-BencodedFile -FilePath 'Path\To\MyTorrentFile.torrent'
Torrent files should be dictionaries, so $Torrent is now a hashtable with keys such as ‘info’, ‘announce-list’ and so on. Check out this website for more about the possible contents of a torrent file.
Strings are represented as both an array of [Byte] objects, as well as a decoded string. So, to access the announce URL as text use $Torrent.announce.string, and to access the bytes contained in info.pieces use $Torrent.info.pieces.bytestring.