Is there bittorrent software that runs in a terminal?

Question

I want to deploy it on my vps server, so I can download resource quickly.

I want this function a lot, because some resource are in foreign country, so use this could reduce my time.

Answer 1

Transmission

The default bittorrent client of Ubuntu Desktop, Transmission, has a command line interface (which is not installed by default, the package is transmission-daemon). The daemon can be setup so that it may be interacted with through the terminal and through a web interface.

Transmission is a good bittorrent client because:

• It's lightweight with either interface.
• It's stable, never had it crashing.
• It's easy to understand.
• It has function expected of a modern bittorrent client, e.g. local peer discovery, full encryption, and support for DHT, µTP, PEX and magnet links.

For more info on its features, see http://www.transmissionbt.com/about/.

Answer 2

rtorrent

I have written and detailed tutorial also about installation/configuration of rtorrent. Check it out here Tutorial : Using rtorrent on Linux like a pro

rTorrent Pro's

• Lightweight
• Ultra-fast Downloading Speed
• Very Effective Bittorrent traffic encryption
• Supported by all the private trackers

• Uses libTorrent as backened. libTorrent

• very customizable

rTorrent Con's

• doesn't run as a daemon, thus requiring screen or dtach when you're not logged in to your vps.

• It is difficult to set up for even a moderately complex system.

Answer 3

Deluge

Deluge is a fully featured, yet lightweight torrent client that is written in Python and utilises libtorrent(rasterbar) C++ library at its core.

• Standalone or Thinclient mode (split core/ui) to enable connecting to daemon (deluged) running remotely or in the background.

• Multiple user-interfaces, supports access from most platforms:

  • GTK UI

    
    

  • Web UI

    

  • Console UI

    

• Many Plugins and application extensions

• Supports all the usual bittorrent client functions: DHT, LPD, PEX, UPNP, Encryption, Proxy, etc.

Answer 4

Azureus

Azureus/Vuse also has a console mode. [disclaimer] I was one of the developers.

To use azureus in console mode, you will need to download a couple of additional libraries from http://svn.vuze.com/public/client/trunk/uis/lib/

• commons-cli.jar
• log4j.jar

If you place these in same the directory as the Vuze jar, you can launch the console ui by running:

java -jar Vuze-xxxx.jar --ui=console

Inside the CLI, type help to view the commands. A couple of useful commands are:

• show torrents
• add [url]
• start [x]
• stop [x]
• remove [x]

Here is example output from a 'show torrents' command

show torrents
> -----
 1 [>] 025.6%   Azureus4.7.0.0.jar (13.26 MB) ETA: 1m 41s
                Speed: 295.1 kB/s / 0 B/s       Amount: 3.56 MB / 0 B   Connections: 11(20) / 0(4)

Total Speed (down/up): 296.6 kB/s / 2.2 kB/s
Transferred Volume (down/up/discarded): 3.56 MB / 0 B / 0 B
Total Connected Peers (seeds/peers): 11 / 0
> -----

Take a look at http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Console_UI for more information :-)

Answer 5

aria2c

A CLI downloader supporting HTTP, FTP, and Torrents.

To download a torrent:

aria2c file.torrent

You can also point it to a remote torrent file http://some web site here.com/file.torrent so you don't need to download the torrent file first.

Also note you can disable file allocation with this flag: --file-allocation=none.

Aria2c also supports parallel downloading on HTTP. Use the -j flag to determine how many threads. For 3 concurrent downloads of a single HTTP file see the following example:

aria2c -j 3 website.com/file.rar

Answer 6

Try utorrent linux alpha version. Its a headless server which can be controlled from your browser (web UI). http://www.utorrent.com/downloads/linux.

Answer 7

I use it all the time :

sudo apt-get install bittornado

To download torrents :

btdownloadcurses --max_uploads 4 --max_upload_rate 32 to_be_downloaded.torrent

Answer 8

ctorrent

There is a similar question on stackoverflow.com.

The accepted answer there is CTorrent so I thought I should mention it here. The description of ctorrent from packages.debian.org is as follows:

This application is written in the C++ language and doesn't require any graphical component, such as an X server. Original ctorrent's upstream has stopped its development and now it's kept updated with new releases/bug fixes by a new developer. It's built as a console program and it can be even used remotely in a machine that provides outside ssh access.

For more info you can visit following sites:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/ctorrent
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctorrent/

there is also an enhanced version of ctorrent which can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dtorrent/