- No-frills ncurses interface.
- Runs as a daemon, using a terminal multiplexer like
tmuxorscreen(and 0.9.7+ has a ‘real’ daemon mode).- Resource-friendly, ideal to run on a Raspberry Pi or a small seedbox VPS.
- Scriptable and extensible via built-in commands and XMLRPC clients.
- Very large choice of web frontends.
- Support for DHT and PEX.
- Magnet links.
- Supported on nearly all trackers.
- Implemented in C++, runs on all major POSIX platforms.
The :doc:`installation` has some pointers to common ways of installing rTorrent on your machine. It does not provide yet another way to do that, because there already are plentiful and redundant sources out there.
To help you with basic configuration tasks, the :doc:`cookbook` contains a quick start into the ‘scripting language’ rTorrent uses for its configuration files.
:doc:`use-cases` then goes on showing how to handle a number of typical configuration needs, adding more features to the basic configuration.
Building on that, the :doc:`scripting` explains more complex commands and constructs of said language. It also helps with controlling rTorrent from the outside, via the XMLRPC protocol.
The :doc:`cmd-ref` chapter lists all relevant XMLRPC and ‘private’ commands of rTorrent with a short explanation.
Here is a list of web links to related information: