Bencode is a compact serialization format comparable to JSON. It is used heavily in the Bittorrent ecosystem. For most use cases, it will result in a smaller encoding than JSON.
Bencode supports a few common data types; integer, byte array / string, list and dictionary.
@article{yaltirakliwikibencode, title = "Bencode", author = "Gokberk Yaltirakli", journal = "gkbrk.com", year = "2021", url = "https://www.gkbrk.com/wiki/bencode/" }
Gokberk Yaltirakli, "Bencode", April, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.gkbrk.com/wiki/bencode/. [Accessed Apr. 17, 2021].
Yaltirakli, G. (2021, April 17). Bencode. https://www.gkbrk.com/wiki/bencode/
Gokberk Yaltirakli, Bencode, GKBRK.COM (Apr. 17, 2021), https://www.gkbrk.com/wiki/bencode/