drench

#Drench

Drench is a lightweight BitTorrent client written in Python. There are a couple of nice features, like the ability to download a subset of all the files in the torrent and exiting cleanly once the download is complete.

The client works with vis, a Twisted web server and D3.js visualization, to show what's going on in the user's file system while the download is taking place.

##Install

The preferred way to install Drench is with pip, which will let you run the following command from the terminal:

pip install drench

Alternatively, you can clone the source and run the following:

python setup.py install

##Use

From the command line enter the following:

python -m drench ./mytorrent.torrent --port 8000 --visualizer 127.0.0.1:8002 --directory ~/Downloads/

./mytorrent.torrent: The path to your torrent file (required)

--port 8000: The port to use for BitTorrent traffic (optional)

--directory ~/Downloads: Where to save your download (optional)

--visualizer 127.0.0.1:8002: The address of your vis server (optional)

Drench isn't capable of downloading multiple torrents at once; just start up a second instance in another terminal instead.

##Status

You can use Drench to download torrent files from the small handful of sites I've tested on.

What doesn't work:

• Seeding
• Magnet links
• UDP-based handshake with tracker (which knocks out several of the biggest trackers)