mtorrent

Lightweight CLI Bittorrent client in Rust. Blazingly fast, incredibly robust and very impressive in general. For GUI version see mtorrent-gui.

Installation

Download the latest pre-compiled binary for Linux or Windows here: https://github.com/DanglingPointer/mtorrent/releases/latest

Alternatively, compile locally using the following commands:

• Linux: RUSTFLAGS="--cfg=tokio_unstable" cargo install mtorrent
• Windows: $env:RUSTFLAGS="--cfg=tokio_unstable"; cargo install mtorrent

Features

• Peer Wire Protocol over IPv4 and IPv6
• HTTP and UDP trackers over IPv4 and IPv6
• Peer Exchange extension
• Magnet links and metadata exchange
• DHT

Usage

$ mtorrent --help
Fast and lightweight CLI BitTorrent client in Rust

Usage: mtorrent [OPTIONS] <METAINFO_URI>

Arguments:
  <METAINFO_URI>  Magnet link or path to a .torrent file

Options:
  -o, --output <PATH>  Output folder
      --no-upnp        Disable UPnP
      --no-dht         Disable DHT
  -h, --help           Print help
  -V, --version        Print version