Can view / request ipfs seeders/leechers ?

[aronayne]

Description: Can the number of seeders / leachers within the ipfs network be monitored ? Is there a command and/or display area within webui that displays this information ?

[whyrusleeping]

@aronayne currently thats not easily possible. You can monitor your bandwidth usage with the ipfs stats bw command and its related options, but that doesnt get you exactly what youre looking for.

This is a feature that we've been thinking about for a little while, but its not as easy to do in ipfs as it is for bittorrent due to the differences in the systems.

[aronayne]

thanks @whyrusleeping , I'm not sure what all the differences are but this issue provides some clarity : ipfs-inactive/faq#17 "IPFS is a filesystem while Bittorent is a download system. Fundamentally, this means that an IPFS aware application can issue a ipfs:\ call, just like a file:\ call, and receive a file.". ipfs-inactive/faq#17 is linked from ipfs-inactive/faq#21

[Stebalien]

You can view a per-peer ledger with ipfs bitswap ledger. Filed a feature request at ipfs/ipfs-webui#1037.