Back in 2008 I was studying P2P networks. I've made a BitTorrent crawler by duct taping v8 and libevent (there was no node.js at the time). It took about 5 minutes to scan a fresh Dexter swarm of about 100K peers. Then, I had all the IP addresses and plenty of metadata (download progress, software used, etc)
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Back in 2008 I was studying P2P networks. I've made a BitTorrent crawler by duct taping v8 and libevent (there was no node.js at the time). It took about 5 minutes to scan a fresh Dexter swarm of about 100K peers. Then, I had all the IP addresses and plenty of metadata (download progress, software used, etc)