cloud-torrent: A Go repository from mp4spig

Cloud torrent is a a self-hosted remote torrent client, written in Go (golang). You start torrents remotely, which are downloaded as sets of files on the local disk of the server, which are then retrievable or streamable via HTTP.

Features

Single binary
Cross platform
Embedded torrent search
Real-time updates
Mobile-friendly
Fast content server

See Future Features here

Install

Binaries

See the latest release or download it now with curl i.jpillora.com/cloud-torrent | bash

Source

Go is required to install from source

$ go get -v github.com/jpillora/cloud-torrent

Docker

$ docker run -d -p 3000:3000 -v /path/to/my/downloads:/downloads jpillora/cloud-torrent

VPS

Digital Ocean

Sign up with free $10 credit
"Create Droplet"
"One-Click Apps"
"Docker X.X.X on X.X"
Choose server size ("$5/month" is enough)
Choose server location
OPTIONAL Add your SSH key
"Create"
You will be emailed the server details (IP Address: ..., Username: root, Password: ...)
SSH into the server using these details (Windows: Putty, Mac: Terminal)
Follow the prompts to set a new password
Run cloud-torrent with:

```
docker run --name ct -d -p 63000:63000 \
  --restart always \
  -v /root/downloads:/downloads \
  jpillora/cloud-torrent --port 63000
```

Visit http://<IP Address from email>:63000/
OPTIONAL In addition to --port you can specify the options below

Vultr

Sign up with free $30 credit here
Follow the DO tutorial above, very similar steps ("Applications" instead of "One-Click Apps")
Offers different server locations

AWS

Heroku

Heroku is no longer supported

Usage

$ cloud-torrent --help

  Usage: cloud-torrent [options]

  Options:
  --title, -t        Title of this instance (default Cloud Torrent, env TITLE)
  --port, -p         Listening port (default 3000, env PORT)
  --host, -h         Listening interface (default all)
  --auth, -a         Optional basic auth in form 'user:password' (env AUTH)
  --config-path, -c  Configuration file path (default cloud-torrent.json)
  --key-path, -k     TLS Key file path
  --cert-path, -r    TLS Certicate file path
  --log, -l          Enable request logging
  --open, -o         Open now with your default browser
  --help
  --version, -v

  Version:
    0.X.Y

  Read more:
    https://github.com/jpillora/cloud-torrent

Future features

The next set of core features can be tracked here. This feature set requires large structural changes and therefore requires a complete rewrite for best results. This rewrite is in progress in the 0.9 branch though it will take quite some time.

In summary, the core features will be:

Remote backends

It's looking like 0.9 will be more of a general purpose cloud transfer engine. It will be capable of transfering files from and source file-system to any destination file-system. A torrent can be viewed a folder with files, just like your local disk, and Dropbox. As long as it has a concept of files and folders, it could potentially be a cloud-torrent file-system backend. Track this issue jpillora#24 for the list of proposed backends.
File Transforms

During a file tranfer, one could apply different transforms against the byte stream for various effect. For example, supported transforms might include: video transcoding (using ffmpeg), encryption and decryption, media sorting (file renaming), and writing multiple files as a single zip file.
Automatic updates Binary will upgrade itself, adding new features as they get released.
RSS Automatically add torrents, with smart episode filter.

Once completed, cloud-torrent will no longer be a simple torrent client and most likely project be renamed.

Donate

If you'd like to buy me a coffee or more, you can donate via PayPal or BitCoin 1AxEWoz121JSC3rV8e9MkaN9GAc5Jxvs4.

Notes

This project is the version 2 rewrite of the original Node version.

Credits to @anacrolix for https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent

License

Creative Commons Legal Code - Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported