A toy BitTorrent client written in python, based on the official specs.
Install it from pip:
pip install Fiume
This will install fiume, the actual torrent client, as well as other utilities.
When installed, fiume creates a .fiume directory in your home.
It will contain a file, downloading.json, which stores the torrents currently in download. You can modify this file freely and in any moment with your own tools, but if you want no trouble fiume provides a CLI command fiume-add to safely add new torrents.
fiume is the actual program. Its CLI is as follows:
To add/remove .torrents files to download, use the fiume-add interface:
- Download of single-file torrents!
- Can manage more than one .torrent download at a time
- Save download state beetwen sessions, and start again at a later time
- Reach acceptable speed downloads (achives maximum download speed on my home connections, ie. 6MBytes/s)
- Offer a basic CLI
- Download of multiple-file torrents
- Support DHT, Message Stream Encryption or any other extension
- While download functionalities has been tested, uploading functionalities are still under test (correctly)