μTorrent Thunder Auto-block Script

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Check μTorrent connected peers periodically, and add IPs whose client matches Thunder etc. to IPFilter.

Briefing

Blocked client list

Unconditionally block

• -XL0012-***
• Xunlei/***
• 7.x.x.x
• QQDownload
• Xfplay
• dandanplay

Conditionally block

Block if peer downloaded more than torrent size

• FDM
• Mozilla
• go.torrent

Others

Block if peer downloaded more than twice times torrent size

Exception

It won't be blocked no matter what the client is if a peer has uploaded any amount of data

Mechanisim

Replica of manual operation basically

1. Fetch complete peers list by sending HTTP request according to WebUI API of μTorrent
2. Filter IPs that using Thunder, and write to ipfilter.dat file
3. Reload IPFilter by sending HTTP request

Configuration

• Modify protocal, domain, port, path, user, password fields according your own configuration of WebUI.
• Currently ipfilter_path could automatically fetch default installation path on Windows. If μTorrent is not installed at default path, or you are using Linux / MacOS, please modify the field to absolute path.
• Modify interval field on your need, default 30 seconds, interger in seconds.

protocal = 'http'
domain = 'localhost'
port = 43202
path = '/gui'
user = 'root'
password = 'toor'
ipfilter_path = os.path.join(os.getenv('appdata'), 'uTorrent', 'ipfilter.dat')
interval = 30

Usage

Presequence: Install and enable μTorrent WebUI

Run directly

python main.py

Run as Windows Service

WIP

Caution

It is highly recommended to backup your original ipfilter.dat file before using this script. Your ipfilter.dat file might be emptied during the execution.

License

Code & Documentation 2019 © Cother
Code released under the Apache 3.0 license
Docs released under Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

References

uTorrent 自动屏蔽迅雷脚本(uTorrent block xunlei/thunder)
Torrent/Labels List Definition