In case it's useful to anyone else...

I made a BitTorrent to IPFS "bridge". It's not a bridge in the sense of directly translating BitTorrent swarms to IPFS (which is likely not possible, but I'd love to be proven wrong :)), but in the sense of downloading content from torrent files and automatically adding it to IPFS.

You can find the repository here - https://github.com/riffcc/torrent2ipfs/ - feel free to ask any questions you have.

Example output:

zorlin@seedbox ~/scripts/torrent2ipfs $ python3 main.py torrent2ipfs starting... let's get interplanetary. [Stage 1] Setting up connections. Connecting to qBittorrent... Connecting to IPFS daemon... [Stage 2] Importing torrents from ingest/ folder. Adding torrent test.torrent [Stage 3A] Checking downloads in progress... Currently downloading 1 torrents. b44a0e20fa5b7cecb77156333b4268dfd7c30afb: estimated time remaining: 14 weeks and 2 days [Stage 3B] Adding completed torrents to IPFS. No completed torrents found yet. [Stage 3A] Checking downloads in progress... Currently downloading 0 torrents. [Stage 3B] Adding completed torrents to IPFS. Torrent not in IPFS yet: b44a0e20fa5b7cecb77156333b4268dfd7c30afb Adding to IPFS... New IPFS hash: QmRBo4kkEVSdgBngJiSKkgs1PrEWG6VfzB7EFnEZchMzaX Finished. Writing pairs.json with all discovered hashes.