Web app to extract torrent files out of Blizzard Downloader
Diablo 3 was announced today and like many thousands of other gamers online right now I’m trying to download the 800mb high def gameplay trailer while putting up with the very clumsy Blizzard Downloader application. For those who don’t know, the Blizzard Downloader is just a mini BitTorrent client with a single torrent file baked in. I’m not a big fan of the downloader because I already have a BitTorrent client that’s much better at bandwidth allocation and my firewall’s already set up for that client. I’d much rather download the movie with my own client instead of Blizzards so I’ve written a little flash app to help facilitate that.
To use this, just point the app at the url of any Blizzard Downloader exe file online (I’m not sure if it’ll work with the .dmg files) and hit the ‘Extract’ button. A link will pop up below that you can click to save the torrent file. The file has no name by default so you’ll have to rename it ‘whatever.torrent’ after it finishes downloading. The resulting torrent will still connect to Blizzards tracker and you’ll download the same file you would be if you were using the Blizzard Downloader app.
This should work with all browsers other then IE 7 and below, since IE doesn’t support the data:URI scheme to create dynamic files.
Example URLs:
Diablo 3 Gameplay Downloader
Starcraft 2 Gameplay Downloader
More Info:
Blizzard Downloader Wiki
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
July 11th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
You sir are an absolute genius - I used to hand extract the .torrent out of patch files with a hex editor in days gone by when I was still on dial-up. The Blizzard downloader is sadly poor. Thanks!
August 6th, 2008 at 5:57 am
Just a thought on your Photo Browser flash+xml+php (http://www.twelvestone.com/forum_thread/view/15182): I can’t load external pictures through the PHP. I replaced the gallery.php file with a collection of Flickr photos links and it doesn’t work. It only works with local pictures OR if the swf and the pictures are on the same domain… have you met this problem?
- Sorry I know it’s not the right place but I can’t register to twelvestone -
Thanks a lot.
Regards
August 12th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
spirit, make sure you’re linking to photos on http://api.flickr.com instead of the main site. the reason why is flickr only allows cross domain loading through that specific subdomain.