TwistedTorrent

A mostly full-featured lightweight BitTorrent client written in Python and implemented using Twisted.

Usage and Installation

git clone git@github.com:jschneier/TwistedTorrent.git
sudo python setup.py install

This will install a console script called torrent. You can now just run:

torrent <list of torrent files to download>

Dependencies

• Twisted

• bitarray

Coming soon

• The implementation of the Kademlia based Distributed Hash Table (DHT) that is used for most torrents nowadays, this includes magnet links.

• Endgame algorithms and rarity.

Resources

Official BitTorrent Specification

More detailed wiki post on specification

Twisted Docs