Torrent tools for Linux

July 10, 2007 |

In this article, we’ve put together a short list of torrent tools available to make your torrenting experience more interesting.

Torrent Episode Downloader - a smart tool for using BitTorrent to automatically download the newest episodes of TV shows that you choose. It has built-in support for “24″, “Lost”, “The Simpsons”, “South Park”, and many more. You can also define new shows to download. It checks feeds from TorrentReactor, Mininova, TVRSS, The PirateBay, Mr. Twig, Isohunt, and MyBittorrent for new episodes of TV shows.

Torrent Pouncer - an automatic torrent downloader for periodic releases of TV shows, series, and similar. Contrary to popular RSS-based torrent downloaders, it searches various torrent search engines like Mininova and Pirate Bay. For user convenience, it keeps databases of downloaded torrents and associates them with shows and season and episode numbers.

TorrentSniff - Reports current status information on a BitTorrent torrent including what files it contains and the current number of seeds (machines sharing the complete torrent) and leeches (machines still downloading the torrent). It is useful for comparing multiple potential sources of a file to find the best-seeded torrent.

Torrent Swapper - A sociable peer to peer file-sharing client based on the BitTorrent protocol. It has a basic understanding of human friendships, of user tastes in content, and of Internet connectivity between users. Torrent Swapper boasts unique features like Amazon-like recommendations to get interesting files, doubling the download speed by using the upload capacity of friends, real-time P2P file sharing with P2P video streaming, and showing the locations of seeders and leechers of the same content with city-level accuracy on a world map.

Bitflu - BitTorrent client designed to run non-stop as a daemon. It does not provide a graphical interface, but offers a telnet interface and can handle multiple torrent downloads.

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Linux>Windows on September 9, 2007 9:31 pm
rtorrent
console based gui, requires lib torrent.
just google rtorrent. i found it worked a charm.
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