WebTorrent Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• I Moved My Blog from IPFS to a Server

  It's because of the kind of content that is shared. BitTorrent serves a lot of content you are not allowed to redistribute, so having an open gateway immediately puts you at risk of aiding the distribution of content. But it does work, someone even made something native to browsers so browsers themselves can share content: https://webtorrent.io/. There are even fuse "gateways" to make it native to your computer... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• How can i make a torrent streamer similar to webtorrent and stremio?

  Title. I have some experience with c++ but not much with torrent libraries. (webtorrent, stremio). Source: 5 months ago

• This page exists only if someone is looking at it

  The page mentions the possibility of file sharing/torrents using WebRTC which does exist if anyone is interested: https://webtorrent.io/ and https://instant.io/ The projects are open source: https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Use Case for WebTorrent / http seed / browser to browser etc. ?

  I assume you've seen https://webtorrent.io/ ? Source: 12 months ago

• How to "stream torrents"?

  Condolences about your friend. Dont know why no one has posted this before but https://webtorrent.io/ works great, and it has functionality for seeking and even use external video players (like mpv or vlc). As people have said here: the more seeders, the better. Source: about 1 year ago

• Transmission v4.0

  I stopped torrenting some time ago, but what are people's experience with webtorrent? https://webtorrent.io/ I'd just as soon avoid running additional software if possible. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Streaming fine of 1500EUROS.

  I stand corrected. https://webtorrent.io/ is a mediaclient implement in js which uses the BitTorrent protocol. Source: about 1 year ago

• How to actually download files from thepiratebay?

  You need a torrent client, whether µTorrent, or another, in some cases even some browsers come equipped with one. https://www.utorrent.com/ - or https://webtorrent.io/ is another. https://torchbrowser.com/ has one built in that I've used too. Source: over 1 year ago

• Beaker Browser is now archived

  You completely off-base here, check this: https://webtorrent.io. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Taking the Power Back with Web Meshes

  A web mesh starts by a browser connecting to one or more WebTorrent servers and offering its SDP data. This SDP data contains information about how to connect to the offering browser via WebRTC. It also requests SDP data for any other browser that has already connected to the WebTorrent server similarly. These SDP data offers and requests are scoped to a specific, client-determined namespace (or "room") so that... - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• I made a react component that downloads torrents, building a website that serves itself.

  Yes sort of, only the files you choose are served to other users. We use WebTorrent which is a well established web technology used by many other companies. You may choose to put a notification on your site that the content the user downloads also serves other users and other users also serve them content. The goal is to help website builders have a more robust site and make it more decentralized. I believe the... Source: almost 2 years ago

• Are there any torrent apps for iOS 15.5?

  Webtorrent's website, and instant.io, their official browser-based client (only support magnet links for download but since this is open source, you can probably find an alternative that supports them). Source: almost 2 years ago

• Internet Filtering in Canada: Rogers' NHL Blocking Order

  If I route an illegal stream via something like Cloudflare or Cloudfront, will the court ask the ISPs to block all cloudflare IPs? That's not going to go well. I guess Cloudflare could block the stream, hopefully in time for that to not happen, but it seems risky. If the stream uses something like https://webtorrent.io/, your going to have to block the IP of everyone else in the world watching it. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)

  GitTorrent was an awesome effort and a super clever use of WebTorrent: https://webtorrent.io/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• aquatic_ws (WebTorrent tracker) rewritten with glommio, achieves up to 1.6 million responses a second in load tests

  I've rewritten aquatic_ws, my WebTorrent tracker implementation, to utilise glommio, a Rust thread-per-core async runtime using io_uring. I did a fresh round of load test benchmarks to get an idea of performance relative to other implementations. Source: about 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Why aren't we see many video hosting companies adopt peertube or P2P?

  So your origin needs to be able to handle the tail and P2P can handle the popular stuff no? It isn't all or nothing. P2P could absolutely be used to peak shave. CDNs also have cold start issues with long tail. Time to first byte is pretty good, https://webtorrent.io/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• What is a website everyone should know about?

  Ive streamed torrents before, I think maybe using this, but to your statement, id rather just wait 5-30minutes to play in VLC player. Source: about 2 years ago

• Formula 1 - 1978 to 2021 Megatorrent update

  You can use Webtorrent to watch specific files on-demand, while they download. Source: over 2 years ago

• Show HN: Fully-searchable Library Genesis on IPFS

  Though it isn't an ideal solution (it's rather large and doesn't have DHT support), https://webtorrent.io supports torrents in browsers. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube

  If WebRTC is activated in your browser and webtorrent (https://webtorrent.io/) is being used by the instance, yes. However, you could say the same for Zoom or most video calling platform, if I'm not mistaken. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Show HN: Exatorrent – Self-hostable Torrent client written in Go

  Tangential, I think adding support of http://webtorrent.io/ by bridging webtorrent peer with bittorent peer would greatly increase/revive the popularity of the protocol. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago