WebTorrent Desktop
The streaming torrent client. For OS X, Windows, and Linux.
Install
WebTorrent Desktop is still under very active development. You can download the latest version from the releases page.
Screenshot
How to Contribute
Install dependencies
$ npm install
Run app
$ npm start
Package app
Builds app binaries for OS X, Linux, and Windows.
$ npm run package
To build for one platform:
$ npm run package -- [platform]
Where [platform]
is darwin
, linux
, win32
, or all
(default).
The following optional arguments are available:
--sign
- Sign the application (OS X, Windows)--package=[type]
- Package single output type.deb
- Debian packagezip
- Linux zip filedmg
- OS X disk imageexe
- Windows installerportable
- Windows portable appall
- All platforms (default)
Note: Even with the --package
option, the auto-update files (.nupkg for Windows, *-darwin.zip for OS X) will always be produced.
Windows build notes
To package the Windows app from non-Windows platforms, Wine needs to be installed.
On OS X, first install XQuartz, then run:
brew install wine
(Requires the Homebrew package manager.)
Privacy
WebTorrent Desktop collects some basic usage stats to help us make the app better. For example, we track how well the play button works. How often does it succeed? Time out? Show a missing codec error?
The app never sends personally identifying information, nor does it track which swarms you join.
Code Style
License
MIT. Copyright (c) WebTorrent, LLC.