NeoTorrentClient

Purpose:

Lightweight and fast torrent client with a modern interface written in C++

Basis:

Basic information about the torrent client can be found in these posts:

• Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go
• A BitTorrent client in Python 3.5
• Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C#

Information about bittorrent protocol you can find in unofficial documentation or official.

Requirements

• Visual Studio 2022 or Rider 2022.3.X (not strictly required, however included setup scripts only support this).
• Vulkan SDK (preferably a recent version).

Dependencies:

• Logging: spdlog
• Building: premake5
• UI: my fork of Walnut
• FileDialog: my fork of ImGuiFileDialog
• Networking: boost
• Http requests: cpr

Building:

1. Clone the repository with all submodules (and submodules of submodules) using the method you choose.
2. Install non submodule dependencies(cpr, boost).
3. Once you've cloned and init all submodules, run scripts/Setup.bat to generate Visual Studio 2022 solution/project files.
4. Now the project is ready to work with.

You can download and install cpr and boost using the vcpkg dependency manager:

git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
cd vcpkg
./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh
./vcpkg integrate install
./vcpkg install cpr
./vcpkg install boost

Supported Features:

The current implementation of this Torrent client only supports the following features:

• Parsing .torrent file
• Retrieving a list of peers from the tracker.

To make it an actual usable Torrent client, it will have to include:

• Downloading single-file torrents in a multi-threaded manner(Work in progress at Dev branch).
• Seeding
• Resuming a download.
• Downloading multi-file torrents
• Downloading multiple torrents at once
• All UI stuff, now only file selection are implemented

Some interesting remarks:

Initially, I planned to implement UI via IPC with an application written in python using PyQt.Then I couldn't imagine how stupid it was :), but if you would be interested to see such a monster, welcome to the old repository of this project.