RustyTorrent

A BitTorrent client, written in Rust.

It supports:

• Reading .torrent files (single-file torrents only)
• Connecting to a tracker to discover peers
• Downloading a file from multiple peers in parallel
• Queueing multiple requests with each peer for faster downloading (aka pipelining)
• Uploading files to peers, and seeding existing files from disk
• Resuming partial downloads
• Verification of correctness of downloaded chunks

Not yet:

• Multi-file torrents
• Connecting to multiple trackers
• Upload throttling/congestion control
• NAT traversal

Requirements

• Rust 1.0.0 or later

Usage

Download and install Rust 1.0 from http://www.rust-lang.org/install.html.

Clone the repository:

git clone git@github.com:kenpratt/rusty_torrent.git
cd rusty_torrent

To run:

cargo run path/to/myfile.torrent

To run specifying a port to listen on:

cargo run -- -p 3333 path/to/myfile.torrent

Your file will be saved in the downloads/ directory.

To build and run an optimized version (will enable significantly faster downloads):

cargo run --release -- path/to/myfile.torrent
cargo run --release -- -p 3333 path/to/myfile.torrent

To watch for changes and auto-rebuild (on OS X):

gem install kicker -s http://gemcutter.org
./watch