# metalink

**Repository Path**: mirrors_svn2github/metalink

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: metalink
- **Description**: This is a clone of an SVN repository at svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/metalinks/code/metalink. It had been cloned by http://svn2github.com/ , but the service was since closed. Please read a closing note on my blog post: http://piotr.gabryjeluk.pl/blog:closing-svn2github . If you want to continue synchronizing this repo, look at https://github.com/gabrys/svn2github 
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: GPL-3.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 1
- **Created**: 2020-09-26
- **Last Updated**: 2026-04-05

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

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## README



		metalink
	License: GPLv3+
	Status: production

Read INSTALL for installation instructions.

metalink is a small program based on libgcrypt and some boost libraries.
It generates a metalink record on the stdout for every file given on the commandline and using the mirror list from the stdin. It is also able to
create a hash list (see the --hashlist option).

Be patient: the implementation isn't yet optimized and calculating 
 the hashes for 600MB can take up to two minutes on a 1 GHz machine.
 Also note that it is creating a number of hashes and for GNUnet
 links it's even symmetrically encrypting blocks of data, all this
 takes time.


	-= Caveats =-
ED2K links don't support files larger then 4GB (4294967295),
however metalink only supports ED2K links of no more then 4290048000 bytes
 (which is a nice whole number of blocks).
 
Files with a ".metalink" extension will never be hashed.

For and example of use:
	cd example
	./gen.sh
This will, if all goes well, generate a valid itworked.metalink file.
Use metalink --help for more information.