hi

how can i make phpBTTrackerMod can scrape?

thanks

Hi,

I think using tracker.php/announce as announce URL (scrape URL is tracker.php/scrape) should do it... I guess I need to work a bit on this... :unsure:

Regards

ok thanks for reply

it works now

When visiting Rebooted I get following download url as download for tracker: http://www.patheticcockroach.com/mpam4/fil...kerMod-0.5.1.7z
Doesn't appear to be a ZIP or.gz file, what kinda file is this, I downloaded but can't open it??????

Sorry I see now its 7Z file, next question, why use such a non supported and obscure file format instead of zip,rar,gz,tar,ect....when theres plenty of open source and free archives for all of them. Why make visitors install an archiver they don't have (I'd guess 99.9% don''t) to open 1 file when they won't ever use it again (again I'd guess 99.9% won't)... ??? Just curious

Several reasons :
- It's just better. It achieves a better compression ratio than all the other formats you mentioned. Our website is hosted on a shared server with a pretty low space quota (120 MiB if I remember well), so every byte counts.
- It's open source. WinZIP and WinRAR aren't and aren't even free of charge (I don't know more details about the license to make a program supporting their compression formats though).
- If nobody starts using it, it will remain an "obscure file format"... so someone has to start, and...
- ...anyway, it's not obscure since it was a winner in the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards 2007 in two categories

And also a bad reason :unsure: :
- 7-Zip is the only file archiver I have, and I don't want to install another one (and no, I won't use Windows's zip compression)


NB : some file archivers with 7-Zip full support :
- Windows : IZArc
- Mac : EZ 7z, BetterZip (sharware)
- Linux : p7zip

NB2 : if you don't want to install it, you can use the no-installation unpacker we made, here : http://www.patheticcockroach.com/mpam4/index.php?p=61&id=24