I’m making a program that keeps track of local files and stores a hash for those files. The program will have a crowdsourced database. What would be the simplest way to seed those files?

I have to look ahead and think of a way to give preference to files with many leeches and zero seeders. If I just try to seed all tracked files the computers running this program will probably implode.

The options I’ve thought about are:

• Automatically create a torrent for each file and add the torrent file to the database. I don’t think this is a good idea because there would be too many torrents. Besides if someone tracks a private file it would be shared, and I only want to share files already being shared.
• Implement something like magnetico to crawl for torrent files. Then the files would be seeded for each torrent that contains them.
• Allow users to add magnet strings to files in the database. Then files with a magnet would be seeded for each of the linked torrents. Torrent files would be created with a fork of Magnet2Torrent in the appropriate language.

The problem is I don’t know how to figure out the number of seeders and leechers with any of this options.