picotorrent
A tiny, hackable BitTorrent client. (by picotorrent)
hadouken
A cross-platform, headless BitTorrent client with low memory footprint. (by hadouken)
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| picotorrent | hadouken | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1 | |
| 2,571 | 322 | |
| 1.2% | 0.0% | |
| 4.4 | 10.0 | |
| 2 months ago | over 3 years ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
picotorrent
Posts with mentions or reviews of picotorrent.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-11.
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Is every shop just behind a paywall now?
While the torrent client included in the owntinfoil zip is open source, the two .exe's included are not, and he's actually violating the open source license for https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent
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Anyone have any experience with writing their own torrent client?
You can look the code of PicoTorrent, is a clean and small client (based on libtorrent too) : https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent
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Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1 is out
Love Transmission but went to picotorrent a few years ago, even smaller footprint https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent
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GGn removing μTorrent from the client whitelist in 6 months
I wish some of the other BT clients took off besides the big 3 (Qbt, Deluge, Transmission and I guess rtorrent+rutorrent as well). There are some other simple BT clients out there that mimic early uTorrent GUI, one of the most notable was Hadouken, which was headless. It had a web UI that's reminiscent of uTorrent 2.0.4. https://github.com/hadouken/hadouken Sadly the project seems dead, as the last official release was in 2015. There's another minimal torrent client named Picotorrent available for Windows https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent, but I am not sure how well this works on heavy libraries, and I doubt many private trackers allow it because it's so niche. Another client I used to use back in the day was Halite, but that also died in 2015.
- BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTorrent client
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BitTorrent v2 (2020)
Not really true - v0.20 of PicoTorrent [1] was released the same day as libtorrent released support for v2 torrents. I think this predates BiglyBT 2.5 with v2 [2] support with about two weeks.
[1] https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent/releases/tag/v0.2...
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Is there any other torrent client apart from BiglyBT, that supports I2P network, on clearnet?
Picotorrent which I have never personally used but which I have heard good things about: https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent
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/r/seedboxes state of the subreddit and moving forwards.
A new windows client built on C++, picotorrent
hadouken
Posts with mentions or reviews of hadouken.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-13.
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GGn removing μTorrent from the client whitelist in 6 months
I wish some of the other BT clients took off besides the big 3 (Qbt, Deluge, Transmission and I guess rtorrent+rutorrent as well). There are some other simple BT clients out there that mimic early uTorrent GUI, one of the most notable was Hadouken, which was headless. It had a web UI that's reminiscent of uTorrent 2.0.4. https://github.com/hadouken/hadouken Sadly the project seems dead, as the last official release was in 2015. There's another minimal torrent client named Picotorrent available for Windows https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent, but I am not sure how well this works on heavy libraries, and I doubt many private trackers allow it because it's so niche. Another client I used to use back in the day was Halite, but that also died in 2015.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing picotorrent and hadouken you can also consider the following projects:
qBittorrent - qBittorrent BitTorrent client
exatorrent - Easy to Use Torrent Client. Can be hosted in Cloud. Files can be streamed in Browser/Media Player.
Transmission - Official Transmission BitTorrent client repository
magnet-uri - Parse a magnet URI and return an object of keys/values
btfs - A bittorrent filesystem based on FUSE.
libretorrent - Free and Open Source, full-featured torrent client for Android. Mirrored from https://gitlab.com/proninyaroslav/libretorrent
simDHT-1 - A DHT crawler, very simple, writen by Python.
XD - meme bittorrent client
libtorrent - an efficient feature complete C++ bittorrent implementation
BiglyBT - Feature-filled Bittorrent client based on the Azureus open source project
wxWidgets - Cross-Platform C++ GUI Library
transgui - 🧲 A feature rich cross platform Transmission BitTorrent client. Faster and has more functionality than the built-in web GUI.