exatorrent

🧲 self-hostable torrent client

Screenshots • Releases • Features • Installation • Usage • Docker • Build • License

• exatorrent is Elegant BitTorrent Client written in Go.
• It is Simple, easy to use, yet feature rich.
• It can be run locally or be hosted in Remote Server with good resources.
• It is Single Completely Statically Linked Binary with Zero External Dependencies.
• It is lightweight and light on resources.
• It comes with Beautiful Responsive Web Client written in Svelte and Typescript.
• Thanks to documented WebSocket API of exatorrent, custom client can be created.
• It supports Single User Mode and Multi User Mode.
• Torrented Files are stored in local disk can be downloaded and streamed via HTTP/Browser/Media Players.

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Usage

Exatorrent can be operated using either of the following methods:

• Releases: You can download precompiled binary for your Operating System from Releases. Mark it as executable and run it. Refer Usage.

  wget https://github.com/varbhat/exatorrent/releases/latest/download/exatorrent-linux-amd64
  chmod u+x ./exatorrent-linux-amd64
  ./exatorrent-linux-amd64
  

• Docker: Docker images of exatorrent are also provided which lets exatorrent to be run in a Docker container. See Docker Docs.

  docker pull ghcr.io/varbhat/exatorrent:latest
  docker run -p 5000:5000 -p 42069:42069 -v /path/to/directory:/exa/exadir ghcr.io/varbhat/exatorrent:latest
  

• Manual Build: exatorrent is open source and can be built from sources. See Build Docs.

  make web && make app
  

Notes:

• Note that Username and Password of Default User created on first run are adminuser and adminpassword respectively.
• You can change Password later but Username of Account can't be changed after creation. Refer Usage.
• Github Actions is used to build and publish Releases and Docker Images of exatorrent.

Features

• Single Executable File with No Dependencies
• Small in Size
• Cross Platform
• Download (or Build ) Single Executable Binary and run. That's it
• Open and Stream Torrents in your Browser
• Add Torrents by Magnet or by Infohash or Torrent File
• Individual File Control (Start, Stop or Delete )
• Stop, Remove or Delete Torrent
• Persistent between Sessions
• Stop Torrent once SeedRatio is reached (Optional)
• Perform Actions on Torrent Completion (Optional)
• Powered by anacrolix/torrent
• Download/Upload Rate limiter (Optional)
• Apply Blocklist (Optional)
• Configurable via Config File but works fine with Zero Configuration
• Share Files by Unlocking Torrent or Lock Torrent (protect by Auth) to prevent External Access
• Retrieve or Stream Files via HTTP
• Multi-Users with Authentication
• Auto Add Trackers to Torrent from TrackerList URL
• Auto Fetch Torrent Metainfo from Online/Local Metainfo Cache
• Download Directory as Zip or as Tarball
• Stream directly on Browser or VLC or mpv or other Media Players
• Documented API
• Uses Sqlite3 (embedded database with no setup and no configuration) by Default for Database but PostgreSQL can be used instead too

License

GPL-v3