vistorrent

A lightweight torrenting client built in Go with the main goal of gaining a deeper understanding of torrenting! Not recommended for 🌊🚢🏴‍☠️

Getting Started

Dependencies

• Git
• Golang

Installation & Execution

• Clone or download this repository
• Build the project by running go build
• Run the project with ./vistorrent <input:file> <output:file>
• Navigate to http://localhost:8080 and start the download by clicking the button

Demo

vistorrentdemo.mp4

Each red box represents a piece of a file, when that piece has been downloaded, it turns green! If a peer fails to download a piece, it is placed back onto the work queue (hence the appearance of "missed" red boxes in the demo)

Future Plans

• Support for magnet links (currently only supports .torrent files)
• Support for other tracker types and/or a distributed hash table (currently only supports HTTP trackers)
• Support for multi-file torrents (currently only supports single-file torrents)
• Support for seeding (currently only supports leeching)
• Make visualization optional and use a desktop application instead of a web application