A mostly full-featured lightweight BitTorrent client written in Python and implemented using Twisted.
git clone [email protected]: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>
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Twisted
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bitarray
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The implementation of the Kademlia based Distributed Hash Table (DHT) that is used for most torrents nowadays, this includes magnet links.
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Endgame algorithms and rarity.
Official BitTorrent Specification