brettvanderwerff / bitool

A Python3 bittorrent client for Linux (WIP)

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bitool

A bit torrent client built for Ubuntu 18.04 with Python 3.

Warning: A work in progress hobby project to learn low level network tools. Currently it is able to download a torrent, slowly, most of the time :) . Project is very incomplete and may be insecure use at your own risk.

Installation

  1. Clone repo

  2. Install libtorrent and requirements

$sudo apt-get install python3-libtorrent
$pip install -r requirements.txt

  1. Run bitool passing a magent link as a command line argument
$python -m bitool "your magnet link in quotation here"

Credit to LordAro, danfolkes and their contributors for developing Magnet2Torrent, which this project uses a modified version of

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A Python3 bittorrent client for Linux (WIP)

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