rTorrent

rTorrent

The main information screen for libTorrent and rTorrent
Developer(s)	Rakshasa (Jari Sundell)
Stable release	rTorrent 0.9.8 / libTorrent 0.13.8 (July 19, 2019 (2019-07-19)) [±]
Repository	github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent
Operating system	Unix-like
Type	BitTorrent
License	GNU GPL
Website	libtorrent.rakshasa.no

rTorrent is a text-based ncurses BitTorrent client written in C++, based on the libtorrent libraries for UNIX (not to be confused with libtorrent (Rasterbar) by Arvid Norberg), "with a focus on high performance and good code".

Technical details

The library differentiates itself from other implementations by transferring data directly between file pages mapped to memory by the mmap() function and the network stack. On high-bandwidth connections, it is claimed to be able to seed at many times the speed of the official client.

rTorrent packages are available for various Linux distributions and Unix-like systems, and it will compile and run on nearly every POSIX-compliant operating system, such as FreeBSD.

rTorrent uses ncurses and is suitable for use with screen or dtach; it uses commands such as Backspace to load a torrent, ^S for start, ^K for stop, and ^D for pause, or if already paused or stopped, ^D again to delete the torrent (^ is shorthand for the Ctrl key). It supports saving of sessions and allows the user to add and remove torrents. It also supports partial downloading of multi-file torrents. In the release of rTorrent-0.7.0 support for BitTorrent protocol encryption is also implemented. PEX, DHT and initial seeding were recently implemented in rTorrent.

rTorrent can be controlled via XML-RPC over SCGI.

See also

• CTorrent, a BitTorrent client with a command line interface
• Comparison of BitTorrent software
• KTorrent

External links

• rTorrent homepage
• rTorrent for Darwin/Mac OS X
• nTorrent - An rTorrent GUI
• rtGui - a PHP/Web interface for rTorrent using XML-RPC
• wTorrent - a php/xhtml web interface for rTorrent
• rTWi - an rTorrent Web interface
• rtorstat - rTorrent status webpage generator : rtorstat does not require xmlrpc support, but, instead, it uses the saved session data in order to create the status page. Therefore, it is a much simpler implementation with very limited features.
• Hottest rTorrent's patches written by Josef Drexler
• Howto: Use rtorrent like a pro
• rrssdl - An RSS Feed Downloader For TV Shows : designed to be used with rTorrent.
• n2hell : A Java-based web interface for rtorrent which does not require a separate web server.