marete/torrent

Simple BitTorrent Command Line Client

torrent

torrent is a simple command-line BitTorrent client based on a straight-forward usage of the excellent https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent library.

Goals

The emphasis for torrent is simplicity and it is supposed to always remain a simple command-line program with reasonable defaults.

I have only tested this on Linux, but there is no reason it shouldn't run well on any other platform supported by Go.

Usage

torrent -magnet '<magnet link>'
torrent -magnet '<magnet link>' -dir <dest_dir>
torrent -file   '<path to .torrent file'
torrent -download_bandwidth_limit 4 -upload_bandwidth_limit 1 -magnet '<magnet link>'

The download and upload limits are in Mbits/s (note: Bits not Bytes, and M is for *Mega).

By default torrent writes the downloaded file(s) in the user's Downloads directory. This can be changed with the -dir command-line option.

Features

torrent supports much of what the anacrolix package supports and can otherwise be trivially extended to support other features of that library. Perhaps the most notable features are:

• Support for continuing interrupted downloads.
• Support for download and upload limits.
• Support for both magnet links and torrent files.
• Support for multiple instances running on the same machine, downloading different torrents.

Installation

go install -v github.com/marete/torrent@latest