mtorrent

Lightweight BitTorrent client in Rust. Blazingly fast, incredibly robust and very impressive in general.

This repo contains reusable library crates and a CLI executable. For GUI version see mtorrent-gui.

Useful links

• https://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification
• https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0000.html
• https://codethechange.stanford.edu/guides/guide_kademlia.html

Progress

Required:

• Basic protocol
• Business logic
• HTTP tracker client

Optional:

• Multitracker Metadata Extension
• UDP Tracker Protocol
• Extension Protocol
• PEX
• Magnet URIs
• IPv6 Tracker Extension
• DHT (Kademlia)
• Protocol Encryption
• uTP
• UPnP
• IPv6 DHT
• STUN (for DHT)?
• Fast Extension
• BitTorrent v2

Build

Build on Linux using the provided dev container. Install Docker, then run ./cargo.sh [args] where args is the arguments to cargo (e.g. ./cargo.sh build --release).

Alternatively, use ./devshell.sh to execute arbitrary commands inside the dev container.

When using VS Code, open the root folder, then, when prompted, build and open the dev container (requires Dev Containers extension).