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Show HN: PicoTorrent, a tiny BitTorrent client for Windows

58 pointsby viktorelofssonover 9 years ago

8 comments

jzelinskieover 9 years ago
This looks pretty neat. I&#x27;ve been using qBittorrent on Windows, but it doesn&#x27;t really support bulk operations, so I&#x27;ve been writing Python scripts[0] to accomplish what I need. Please, cater to the users that need to idle with tons of torrents open all the time and make it easy to import&#x2F;export the current state of the torrents loaded into client.<p>Also, shameless plug -- I work on an open source BitTorrent tracker[1] that was adopted by Facebook for deploying their server software and have been playing around with a framework for writing tracker logic via middleware[2]. If you want to talk about any of the client &lt;&gt; tracker interactions, I&#x27;m totally down for discussion.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jzelinskie&#x2F;move_torrents.py" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jzelinskie&#x2F;move_torrents.py</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chihaya&#x2F;chihaya" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chihaya&#x2F;chihaya</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jzelinskie&#x2F;otoshi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jzelinskie&#x2F;otoshi</a>
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quanticleover 9 years ago
I don&#x27;t see the github repository for Picotorrent linked on the blog, so I&#x27;m linking it here, in case anyone else is interested: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;picotorrent&#x2F;picotorrent" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;picotorrent&#x2F;picotorrent</a>
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15charlimitover 9 years ago
How does this compare, featurewise&#x2F;speedwise, to popular (yet simple and powerful) clients like Deluge?<p>I ask because I&#x27;m not seeing an FAQ, list of features or User Manual documentation on the linked page.
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cmdrfredover 9 years ago
Very nice. μTorrent has long been riddled with ad&#x27;s (with sound for gates sake!) and Deluge feels a little slow and bulky on my machine. This looks like a lighter alternative.
butzover 9 years ago
Installer 5,55MB, installed size: 20,6MB. That&#x27;s not pico, more like mili- or centi- as compared to uTorrent. For comparison, another open source bit-torrent client Halite (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Eoinocal&#x2F;Halite" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Eoinocal&#x2F;Halite</a>) weighs at 2,34MB (installer) and 12MB installed.<p>Installer didn&#x27;t even ask where I want to install it and did not display any success message, informing about successful installation. Needs more install options for power users. Also portable (zip) version would be a big plus.<p>More comments more, maybe, because PicoTorrent fails to work in Sandboxie.
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tuananhover 9 years ago
For those who use private trackers, it would take awhile for this to get whitelisted.
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rilutover 9 years ago
Looks promising, I&#x27;m using it. Keep up your good work!
wnevetsover 9 years ago
how does it compare to uTorrent 2.2?
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