3010 - Roll your own magnet links (if your proxy is fucking with the real ones)

[Suprbay]

If you access TPB via a proxy, chances are your proxy is fucking with the magnet links and rendering them unusable. eg. hidemyass makes them look like

Code:

http://6.hidemyass.com/ip-1/encoded/Oi8vdGhlcGlyYXRlYmF5LnNlL3RvcnJlbnQvNzA2OTk3My9tYWduZXQ6P3h0PXVybjpidGloOjkzOGZl​ZGY1MjhiMWIwMWQ5ODA1ZjdlYzY0MmY3Njk5ZThmNDk2NzAmZG49NDArU2V4eStHaXJscytXYWxscGFw​ZXJzKzE2MDArWCsxMjAwKyU1QlNldCs2NSU1RCZ0cj11ZHAlM0ElMkYlMkZ0cmFja2VyLm9wZW5iaXR0​b3JyZW50LmNvbSUzQTgwJnRyPXVkcCUzQSUyRiUyRnRyYWNrZXIucHVibGljYnQuY29tJTNBODAmdHI9​dWRwJTNBJTJGJTJGdHJhY2tlci

instead of

Code:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7be37ac7f65dc78bf8b115629e60220c637fe0d1&dn=Machine+Gun+Preacher+2011+Dvdrip+xvid+Cinemagic&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80

which is what they're supposed to look like. It's not just looks either, they won't work unless they look right.

Fortunately there is a relatively easy way around that. Hopefully, someone will fix the problem of course but, until then:

1. double click on the Info Hash (it's displayed on the torrent details page now, just look for it. And double click on the value of course, not on the field label.)

2. right click and select Copy

3. Open your torrent client and select File > Add torrent from URL (if you're using uTorrent 2.x; adjust if you're using something else or do yourself a favour and switch to uTorrent 2.0.4 which is the best version of the best torrent client there is)

4. Type magnet:?xt=urn:btih: then paste the torrent hash and click OK.

Optionally, immediatly after the torrent hash and before clicking OK, you could type (or better yet, copy and paste) in &tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80

[dlcjsc001]

Awesome. Thanks! This works for me:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:[Info Hash Here (No Capitals)]&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337

Replace Everything in the [] brackets, including the brackets with the Info Hash. Go to http://convertcase.net to convert Info Hash to lowercase (uppercase didn't work for me).

[theraaz]

My proxy site and (some other also) support magnet links so its not true that all proxy sites not support magnet links. snip!<</mod. is my proxy site

Spud17 edited Nov 16, 2014 16:43 pm this post because: The OP didn't say all proxy sites, they said chances are. The Tutorials forum is not the place for you to promote your proxy site. Link removed.

[xxxskfxxx]

i usually just use tor to get my hashes and links then close it down once utorrent starts

[sbarton0210]

I did notice that another torrent app I had Shareaza worked when clicking on the magnet (fiance downloaded it, I only use utorrent) but even after uninstalling that one, utorrent wouldn't even open when clicking the magnet. Hoping it gets fixed soon but for now will use the long way posted here since it works. And thank you for the note about capitals, it wouldn't work until I changed all the letters to lower case.