mtorrent

Lightweight command line Bittorrent client in Rust. Based on Tokio (but without a threadpool, currently runs 3 threads in total).

Useful links

• https://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification
• https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0000.html

Progress

Required:

• Basic protocol
• Business logic
• HTTP tracker client

Optional:

• Multitracker Metadata Extension
• UDP Tracker Protocol
• Extension Protocol
• PEX
• Magnet URIs
• Magnet URI select files
• DHT
• Fast Extension
• BitTorrent v2

Building

Requires Docker. To build on Linux, run ./builder.sh [args] where args is the arguments to cargo (e.g. ./builder.sh build --release). When using VS Code, open the root folder, then, when prompted, build and open the dev container (requires Dev Containers extension).