vaiTorrent

A BitTorrent client implementation in Node.js, meant for educational purposes only.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Latest version of NodeJs and NPM

Installing and Running

• Download/pull the source code

$ mkdir vaiTorrent
$ cd vaiTorrent
$ git init
$ git pull https://github.com/vaibhav-walia/vaiTorrent.git

• Install the client

   $ npm install
  

• Open settings.json and set the download directory

  {
      "downloadDir" : "./../Downloads/"
  }

• Download a torrent : node vaiTorrent.js <torrentFilePath>

  Example:
  $ cd src
  $ node vaiTorrent.js ./../testTorrents/2.torrent
  

Authors

• Vaibhav Walia - Github Profile

License

MIT