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# Chihaya [](https://travis-ci.org/chihaya/chihaya)
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Chihaya is a high-performance [BitTorrent tracker ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker ) written in the Go programming language. It is still heavily under development and the current `master` branch should not be used in production.
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Planned features include:
- Light resource consumption
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- Fast request processing using connection pools to spare the network from exorbitant connections
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- Maximum compatibility with what exists of the BitTorrent spec
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- Correct IPv6 support *gasp*
- Generic storage interfaces that are easily adapted to work with any database.
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### Technical Details
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See [the wiki ](https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya/wiki ) for a discussion of the design behind Chihaya.
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## Using Chihaya
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Chihaya can be ran as a public or private tracker and is intended to work with existing torrent-indexing web frameworks, such as [Gazelle], [Batter] and any others that spring up. Following the Unix way, it is built to perform one specific task: handling announces and scrapes. By cleanly separating the concerns between tracker and database, we can provide an interface that can be used by system that needs its functionality. See [below ](#drivers ) for more info.
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[batter]: https://github.com/wafflesfm/batter
[gazelle]: https://github.com/whatcd/gazelle
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### Installing
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Chihaya requires Go 1.3+ to build.
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```sh
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$ go get github.com/chihaya/chihaya
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```
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Make sure you have your `$GOPATH` set up correctly, and have `$GOPATH/bin` in your `$PATH` .
If you're new to Go, an overview of the directory structure can be found [here ](http://golang.org/doc/code.html ).
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### Configuring
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Configuration is done in a JSON formatted file specified with the `-config`
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flag. An example configuration file can be found
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[here ](https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya/blob/master/example.json ).
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### Running the tests
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```sh
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$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/chihaya/chihaya
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$ go test -v ./...
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```
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## Drivers
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Chihaya is designed to remain agnostic about the choice of data store for an
application, and it is straightforward to [implement a new driver]. However, there
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are a number of drivers that will be directly supported "out of the box":
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Tracker:
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* memory
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* [redis ](https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya-redis )
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Backend:
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* noop (for public trackers)
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* [gazelle (mysql) ](https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya-gazelle )
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[implement a new driver]: https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya/wiki/Implementing-a-driver
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## Contributing
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If you're interested in contributing, please contact us via IRC in ** [#chihaya] on
[freenode]** or post to the GitHub issue tracker. Please don't write
massive patches with no prior communication, as it will most
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likely lead to confusion and time wasted for everyone. However, small
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unannounced fixes are always welcome!
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[#chihaya]: http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=chihaya
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[freenode]: http://freenode.net
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And remember: good gophers always use gofmt!
