webtorrent

The command-line interface for WebTorrent. Supports magnets, URLs, info hashes and .torrent files. More information: <https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent-cli>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/webtorrent.sh
OS X
brew install webtorrent-cli

The command-line interface for WebTorrent. Supports magnets, URLs, info hashes and .torrent files. More information: <https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent-cli>.

  • Download a torrent:
    webtorrent download "torrent_id"
  • Stream a torrent to VLC media player:
    webtorrent download "torrent_id" --vlc
  • Stream a torrent to a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) device:
    webtorrent download "torrent_id" --dlna
  • Display a list of files for a specific torrent:
    webtorrent download "torrent_id" --select
  • Specify a file index from the torrent to download:
    webtorrent download "torrent_id" --select index
  • Seed a specific file or directory:
    webtorrent seed path/to/file_or_directory
  • Create a new torrent file for the specified file path:
    webtorrent create path/to/file
  • Display information for a magnet URI or `.torrent` file:
    webtorrent info path/to/file_or_magnet

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