I've read the Bit-torrent specification and done a number of searches, trying to find out how I can get the seeds/peers/downloaded data from a torrent tracker (using Python). I can calculate the info hash from a Torrent no problem, which matches up with the info hash given by various working torrent applications.
However, when I try to get the information from the tracker I either timeout (the tracker is working) or get empty data, depending on what form I put the URL in:
http://tracker.openbittorrent.com/scrape?info_hash=a8c482902b1c735de462479721b011dc7b3d3558 - timeout
I was told that this should be 20 characters long, so took a substring, but this gives empty data.
http://tracker.openbittorrent.com/scrape?info_hash=a8c482902b1c735de462 - d5:filesdee
I think I have misunderstood something with how I should encode or make the infohash for the scrape URL, but can't for the life of me see where.