vimpunk / cratetorrent

A BitTorrent V1 engine library for Rust (and currently Linux)

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WebTorrent support

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WebTorrent is a new implementation of the bittorrent protocol designed to work over WebRTC. This allows browsers to download torrents without plugins. However, due to the limitations of WebRTC it isn't possible to make the protocol compatible with bittorrent (or uTP).

libtorrent has already added this. Here is the issue
Issue to track progress on getting WebRTC support into popular torrent clients

the implementation of webtorrent turn the client hybrid, like https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent-hybrid

Issue to track progress on getting WebRTC support into popular torrent clients

Few, very few clients are hybrid

Btw... I liked the TUI of the client, no one client implements like this client or a bpytop UI