BitTorrent ​

Transmission is a great GUI BitTorrent client.

rain or torrent are a nice BitTorrent Go client/lib. Porla or exatorrent seem nice as a BitTorrent server.

Torrent sites ​

• RuTracker
• RARBG
• The Pirate Bay
• Torrent Paradise - Decentralized DHT search site for IPFS. (Code) (TUI Client)
• LimeTorrents
• TorrentGalaxy
• What is the hottest general torrent site right now? (2018)
• What's the best current public index/crawler to find torrents? (2019)
• 12 Best Torrent Sites

Notes ​

• NAS + Plex + Remote Transmission is great combo.

Links ​

• Transmission - Fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client. (Code) (HN)
• BitTorrent.org
• qBittorrent - BitTorrent client. (Code)
• Tribler - Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery.
• transmission-telegram - Control your Transmission through a Telegram bot.
• Updated list of public BitTorrent trackers (2019)
• magnetico - Autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite.
• Magnetissimo - Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database.
• torrent - Full-featured BitTorrent-client package and utilities.
• libutp - uTorrent Transport Protocol library.
• confluence - Torrent client as a HTTP service.
• /r/trackers - Great subreddit.
• BTFS - Mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory. (HN)
• Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go (2020) (HN) (Code) (HN)
• Awesome Piracy
• DHT - BitTorrent DHT Protocol && DHT Spider.
• Intermodal - New command-line BitTorrent metainfo utility. (Code)
• pimp-my-box - Automated seedbox install of rTorrent-PS and PyroScope CLI etc. via Ansible.
• moose - Torrent client to download, stream and cast torrents. (Code)
• Hydra Booster - DHT Indexer node & Peer Router.
• WebTorrent Workshop - Learn WebTorrent and WebRTC in a guided workshop.
• Introducing Web3Torrent (2020) (HN)
• Chihaya - Customizable, multi-protocol BitTorrent Tracker.
• Monitoring Torrents On Your Server (2020) (Lobsters)
• BitTorrent v2 (2020) (HN) (Lobsters) (HN)
• libtorrent - Open source C++ library implementing the BitTorrent protocol, along with most popular extensions, making it suitable for real world deployment. (Web)
• libtorrent adds support for the WebTorrent protocol (2020)
• cl-torrents - Little app to search for torrents on popular trackers and to open them with a local or a remote client.
• distribyted - Torrent client with on-demand file downloading as a filesystem.
• TorrentFreak - Blog dedicated to reporting the latest news and trends on the BitTorrent protocol and file sharing.
• TorrServer - Torrent stream server.
• Emonoda - Set of tools to organize and manage your torrents.
• Torrent Parts - Inspect and edit what's in your Torrent file or Magnet link. (Code)
• PrivTracker - Private BitTorrent tracker for everyone. (Code)
• Cloud Torrent - Self-hosted remote torrent client.
• bencode-go - Go language binding for encoding and decoding data in the bencode format that is used by the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing protocol.
• Taipei Torrent - Simple command-line-interface BitTorrent client coded in the go programming language. (Taipei-Torrent postmortem: Writing a BitTorrent client in Go)
• BitTorrent DHT library
• cratetorrent - Rust crate implementing the BitTorrent version 1 protocol.
• Flood - Modern web UI for rTorrent, Transmission and qBittorrent. (Code)
• rustorrent - BitTorrent library implemented in Rust.
• Defeating Vanish with Low-Cost Sybil Attacks Against Large DHTs (2010)
• TorrentNet - Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite. (HN)
• sn_routing - Specialised storage DHT.
• Visualising how BitTorrent works (2010)
• instant.io - Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent (torrents on the web). (Web)
• βTorrent - Browser WebTorrent Client. (Code)
• BitFiend - BitTorrent client written in C.
• The Pirate Bay – Darknet Diaries (2021)
• Transmission-rpc - Python module implementing the json-rpc client protocol for the BitTorrent client Transmission.
• dht-crawler - Minimal BitTorrent crawler and scheduler with RethinkDB backend to collect, analyse and store peers.
• BitTorrent Turns 20: The File-Sharing Revolution Revisited (2021) (HN)
• Nebula Crawler - libp2p DHT crawler that gathers information about running nodes in the network.
• bittorrent-protocol - Simple, robust, BitTorrent wire protocol implementation in Node.js.
• Exatorrent - BitTorrent Client written in Go. It can be run locally or be hosted in Remote Server with good resources to use that Server as SeedBox. (HN)
• XD - BitTorrent Client written in Go.
• dht - Used by anacrolix/torrent, and is intended for use as a library in other projects both torrent related and otherwise.
• Transmission Swift - Combine powered Transmission RPC API client.
• The High Seas - Very straightforward BitTorrent tracker.
• aquatic - Blazingly fast, multi-threaded BitTorrent tracker (UDP, HTTP, WebTorrent) written in Rust.
• mtorrent - Totally configurable terminal torrent client.
• P2P file system of cortex full node
• bittorrent-dht - Simple, robust, BitTorrent DHT implementation.
• Decentralized, Mutable, Serverless Torrent Swarm Websites (HN)
• Tox - Implementation of toxcore in Rust. P2P, distributed, encrypted, easy to use DHT-based network.
• "Widevine Dump":Leaked Code Downloads HD Video from Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix (2021) (HN) (HN)
• Notflix - Shell script to search and stream torrent.
• append-only-torrent - Create a sequence of torrent files for growing input.
• publius - Share files to the decentralized, unblockable torrent swarm and share links using Handshake domains. Decentralized internet is here.
• create-torrent - Create .torrent files.
• Database-less torrent website (2022) (HN)
• Hefur - Standalone C++ BitTorrent tracker.
• BTPD - BitTorrent Protocol Daemon.
• feedtransmission - Python script to read RSS/Atom feeds of torrents and add them to Transmission to download.
• Torrentinim - Self-hosted API-only, low memory footprint, torrent search engine and crawler.
• Ask HN: Why don't more software projects use BitTorrent for downloads? (2022)
• PicoTorrent - Tiny, hackable BitTorrent client.
• Porla - Programmable BitTorrent client for servers and seedboxes.
• transmission-trackers - Script to automatically add trackers from a list to all torrents in Transmission.
• Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records (2022) (Lobsters)
• TransmissionRemote - macOS client for transmission daemon (using RPC API).
• lava_torrent - Library for parsing/encoding/creating bencode and .torrent files.
• Curated List Of Torrent Tracker Platforms/Codebases Written In Multiple Coding Languages
• webtorrent-health - Get health info about a webtorrent file or magnet link.
• bittorrent-tracker - Simple, robust, BitTorrent tracker (client & server) implementation.
• magnetfinder - Multi-threaded CLI torrent scraper for displaying searched for magnet links; tailored for use with plex & ssh.
• qBittorrent CLI - CLI to manage qBittorrent. Add torrents, reannounce and import from other clients.
• libtorrent-daemon - BitTorrent client specifically made for servers.
• Popcorn Time - Multi-platform, free software BitTorrent client that includes an integrated media player.
• Transmission Exporter for Prometheus
• Torrents Api - Unofficial API for various Torrent websites.
• Revenant - Cледим за раздачами на RuTracker для фильмов из списка на КиноПоиске.
• haze - Small BitTorrent client, written in Haskell.
• BitChan - BitTorrent Image Board.
• BitTorrent Site Magnet Database Archives Available via Torrent and Direct DL (HN)
• Zetflix - Смотреть фильмы и сериалы от компании Нетфликс онлайн.
• Seedbox - Docker-powered seedbox with persistent data and more cool stuff.
• Peercloud - Decentralized web hosting over WebTorrent.
• BitRemote - BitTorrent client remote app for Apple platforms built with SwiftUI & TCA.
• Bittrickle - UDP bitTorrent tracker in Rust.
• rain - BitTorrent client and library in Go.
• Mabel - Fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal. (Lobsters)
• WebTorrent CLI - Streaming torrent client. For the command line.
• Jackett - API Support for your favorite torrent trackers.
• WebTorrent Hybrid - Streaming torrent client (with WebRTC support in Node.js).
• VueTorrent - Sleekest looking WEBUI for qBittorrent made with VueJS.
• rqbit - BitTorrent client in Rust.
• Tornado - BitTorrent client written entirely in OCaml.
• Bt-Elixir - Elixir bit torrent.
• serde-bencode - Serde backed Bencode encoding/decoding library for Rust.
• Parasite - Modern torrent indexer with some federation capacities.
• newTrackon - Public open BitTorrent trackers monitoring tool.
• Hybrid-Torrent-Tracker - Torrent tracker for Node.js with HTTP and UDP support based middleware.
• Attractorr - Tool written in Rust to search for torrents.
• BitTorrent Protocol Specification v2
• OpenVPN and Transmission with WebUI - Docker container running Transmission torrent client with WebUI over an OpenVPN tunnel.
• stig - TUI and CLI for the BitTorrent client Transmission.
• bt-fetch - Interact with Bittorrent the same way you would websites via fetch.
• LinuxServer.io qBittorrent
• Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release? (2022)
• we-get - Command-line tool for searching torrents.
• Gopeed - High speed downloader that supports all platforms.
• Planktos - Serving websites over BitTorrent.
• WebTorrent FAQ (HN)
• qBittorrentKit - Light-weight qBittorrent client for iOS and macOS.
• yahms - Open-source qBittorrent client for iOS.
• Hellish - Torrent tracker.
• Pieces - BitTorrent client implemented in Python 3 using asyncio.
• QBittorrent v4.5.0: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Legible Text (2023) (HN)
• Web Torrent Search - Simple, fast and reliable torrent search engine built with Flutter and Go to find and download torrents.
• btlink - HTTP(s) addressing scheme for BitTorrent.
• torrent-stream - Low level streaming torrent engine that peerflix uses.
• Torrent / YouTube Leecher
• Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years (HN)
• vortex - io_uring torrent client.
• trident - Simple torrent client written in Rust.
• utp - uTorrent transport protocol.
• What if Archive.today published torrents of its datasets? (2023)
• PikaTorrent - Modern, simple, connected, and electric BitTorrent app.
• Vincenzo - BitTorrent client with vim-like keybindings and a terminal based UI.
• Multiplex - Watch torrents with your friends.
• Bento - Fast, correct, pure-Elixir library for reading and writing Bencoded metainfo (.torrent) files.