Bencode-JS

Library to encode and decode data in the Bencode format.

Install

npm install bencodejs

Usage

Setup

const Bencode = require('bencodejs');

Encoding

const pingQuery = {"t":"aa", "y":"q", "q":"ping", "a":{"id":"abcdefghij0123456789"}}
const bencodedObj = Bencode.encode(pingQuery);

d1:ad2:id20:abcdefghij0123456789e1:q4:ping1:t2:aa1:y1:qe

Decoding

const exampleResponse = 'd1:rd2:id20:mnopqrstuvwxyz123456e1:t2:aa1:y1:re';
const obj = Bencode.decode(exampleResponse, 'ascii');

{ r: { id: 'mnopqrstuvwxyz123456' }, t: 'aa', y: 'r' }

Methods

encode ⇒ Buffer

Encodes data in the bencoded format.

| Param | Type | | --- | --- | | obj | Object | Number | String | Array | Buffer |

decode ⇒ Buffer | String | Number | Array | Object

Decodes data encoded in the bencoded format.

| Param | Type | | --- | --- | | buf | Buffer | | encoding | String |