Support for desktop torrent clients

[iadj]

Webtorrent support for desktop torrent clients would be great as it'd allow for continuous seeding from desktop torrent client users to web users, therefore making files shared through WebTorrent apps way more sustainable for longevity .

From the WebTorrent documentation:
"We hope established torrent clients (uTorrent, Transmission, Vuze, etc.) will add support for WebRTC and the WebTorrent extensions so they can swarm with peers from both the normal and web networks."

Something I feel could speed up this process and allow projects to use WebTorrent along with desktop clients is to integrate WebTorrent support into an open source Torrent client (as a plugin) such as Deluge (http://deluge-torrent.org/), which is written in Python.

Would love to hear ideas!

[yipperr]

if u bothered reading properly webtorrent repo is a torrent client written from the ground up packaged as an app using nodewebkit and angularjs. the lines u quoted is a means to allow existing torrent clients to expose there swarms over the new protocol. which is a different question altogether

[iadj]

However you're still unable to seed from any desktop torrent client to a user downloading with Webtorrent. I was hoping to discuss ideas on how to make this possible.

[yipperr]

sorry i din't quite understand what u where saying added more to the fact that the both the desktop client and the web based torrent client have the same name (webtorrent). and torrents downloaded over the webtorrent app will serve as the first seeds for the webrtc torrent clients.

since webrtc requires signalling,implementing in all the torrent clients as a plugin seems trivial

[feross]

@iadj Integrating WebTorrent support into an open source client like Deluge, libtorrent, Transmission, etc. is a great idea. That would help WebTorrent adoption greatly!

@yipperr The term WebTorrent is overloaded – you're right. There are at least 4 uses already:

• WebTorrent, the project/movement
• webtorrent, the npm module (runs in node.js and the browser)
• webtorrent, the command line node.js app (npm install webtorrent -g)
• "WebTorrent extensions" to the BitTorrent protocol (this term indicates support for WebRTC peers)

In January, I'm planning to raise some funding (through donations) to pay contributors (like you or me) to develop these features since some of it is non-trivial. Stay tuned :)

[iadj]

Would love to raise some funds! Let me know!

[feross]

This is a duplicate of #241, let's move discussion there.