Tget – Wget for torrents (opens in new tab)

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28 pointsutkarshsinha9y ago10 comments

10 comments

anon101620169y ago

Am I confused or is OP trying to just copy peerflix's torrent downloading code?

I looked at the personal website of the Github user (Jeffrey Jose) who forked it (4 hours ago) and they already have a listing for "tget" on their website[0]. I understand it is MIT licensed, but that seems shady to me to try to pass off another's work as your own. The first PR was to fix the README title from peerflix to "tget"[1].

[0]: http://jeffreyjose.com/code

[1]: https://github.com/jeffjose/tget/pull/1/commits/69477080505f...

Solinoid9y ago

It's always nice to have options, but aria2 is a very mature cli file grabber that supports .torrent files among a host of other protocols.

https://aria2.github.io

mcbuilder9y ago

especially when the SLOC is around 80 for the OP.

voltagex_9y ago

Including dependencies?

Blahah9y ago

Looks like this project was created an hour ago by cloning peerflix. Not a bad way to start, but as yet nothing to distinguish it from the more mature offerings like peerflix itself, or aria2 as mentioned in a sister comment.

agumonkey9y ago

That said, the name was valuable itself.

Twirrim9y ago

Alternatively, rtorrent is a nice and mature ncurses based torrent client. It's already in the repository of most distributions.

Solinoid9y ago

For any other rtorrent users, check out rtorrent-pyroscope for a modified version that provides a number of enhancements (more compact UI, a number of ancillary scripts to manage torrents, make torrents and modify torrent files).

https://github.com/pyroscope/rtorrent-ps

wilmo9y ago

I found rtorrent kept breaking on my often enough (mac) that it wasn't worth keeping around. It got dropped from homebrew for that very reason. Transmission cli does a wonderful job in place of it.

the84729y ago

does it seed to a 1:1 ratio?

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10 comments

anon101620169y ago

Am I confused or is OP trying to just copy peerflix's torrent downloading code?

[0]: http://jeffreyjose.com/code

[1]: https://github.com/jeffjose/tget/pull/1/commits/69477080505f...

Solinoid9y ago

It's always nice to have options, but aria2 is a very mature cli file grabber that supports .torrent files among a host of other protocols.

https://aria2.github.io

mcbuilder9y ago

especially when the SLOC is around 80 for the OP.

voltagex_9y ago

Including dependencies?

Blahah9y ago

agumonkey9y ago

That said, the name was valuable itself.

Twirrim9y ago

Alternatively, rtorrent is a nice and mature ncurses based torrent client. It's already in the repository of most distributions.

Solinoid9y ago

https://github.com/pyroscope/rtorrent-ps

wilmo9y ago

I found rtorrent kept breaking on my often enough (mac) that it wasn't worth keeping around. It got dropped from homebrew for that very reason. Transmission cli does a wonderful job in place of it.

the84729y ago

does it seed to a 1:1 ratio?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse