Chihaya

Chihaya is an open source BitTorrent tracker written in Go.

Differentiating features include:

• Protocol-agnostic and middleware-composed logic
• Low resource consumption and fast, asynchronous request processing
• Unified IPv4 and IPv6 swarms
• YAML configuration
• Optional metrics via Prometheus

Getting Started

In order to compile the project, the latest stable version of Go and a working Go environment are required.

$ go get github.com/chihaya/chihaya
$ go install github.com/chihaya/chihaya/cmd/chihaya

Development

Long-term discussion and bug reports are maintained via GitHub Issues. Code review is done via GitHub Pull Requests. Real-time discussion is done via freenode IRC.

Related projects

• OpenTracker: a popular BitTorrent tracker written in C
• Ocelot: a private BitTorrent tracker written in C++

License

Chihaya is distributed under the 2-Clause BSD license that can be found in the LICENSE file.