Storrent is a BitTorrent implementation that is optimised for streaming media: it allows you to watch a movie or to listen to music from a Torrent without downloading it entirely.

Storrent works entirely in RAM: except for the DHT bootstrap database, it will never write anything to disk. It requires a fair amount of memory (1GB will do, 4GB is better).

Installation

git clone https://github.com/jech/storrent
cd storrent
CGO_ENABLED=1 go build

This will yield a binary called storrent or storrent.exe.

Running

./storrent &

Now go to

http://localhost:8088

and add a magnet link or a link to a torrent file. Wait a few seconds, then hit reload; you should see a link to a playlist which you may download and feed to your favourite media player.

Command-line options

storrent -help

By default, storrent takes 1/2 of the total RAM on your machine. You may tune this with the -mem command-line flag:

storrent -mem $((4 * 1024 * 1024)) &

By default, storrent attempts to open ports in your NAT box or firewall using NAT-PMP, or, failing that, uPNP. You may disable port mapping with the -portmap flag:

storrent -portmap=off

I usually run storrent in a slightly more paranoid mode than the default:

storrent -force-encryption -dht passive

For privacy reasons, storrent doesn't use trackers or webseeds by default; you may enable them on a torrent-by-torrent basis in the user interface. Should you wish to override the default, do:

storrent -use-trackers -use-webseeds

Author

Juliusz Chroboczek https://www.irif.fr/~jch/