### Downstream projects
-There are several web-frontends, sites, Android clients, storage backends and supporting services among the known public projects:
+There are several web-frontends, sites, Android clients and supporting services among the known public projects:
- * [cove](https://coveapp.info): Personal torrent browser with streaming, DHT search, video transcoding and casting.
+ * [cove](https://coveapp.info): Torrent browser with streaming, DHT search, video transcoding and casting.
* [confluence](https://github.com/anacrolix/confluence): torrent client as a HTTP service <!-- Well of course I know him... He's me -->
- * [Gopeed](https://github.com/GopeedLab/gopeed): Gopeed (full name Go Speed), a high-speed downloader developed by Golang + Flutter, supports (HTTP, BitTorrent, Magnet) protocol, and supports all platforms. <!-- 7.7k stars -->
- * [Erigon](https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon): an implementation of Ethereum (execution layer with embeddable consensus layer), on the efficiency frontier. <!-- 2.7k stars -->
* [exatorrent](https://github.com/varbhat/exatorrent): Elegant self-hostable torrent client <!-- 1.5k stars -->
- * [bitmagnet](https://github.com/bitmagnet-io/bitmagnet): A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and Servarr stack integration. <!-- 1.1k stars -->
- * [TorrServer](https://github.com/YouROK/TorrServer): Torrent streaming server over http <!-- 984 stars -->
- * [distribyted](https://github.com/distribyted/distribyted): Distribyted is an alternative torrent client. It can expose torrent files as a standard FUSE, webDAV or HTTP endpoint and download them on demand, allowing random reads using a fixed amount of disk space. <!-- 982 stars -->
* [Simple Torrent](https://github.com/boypt/simple-torrent): self-hosted HTTP remote torrent client <!-- 876 stars -->
- * [autobrr](https://github.com/autobrr/autobrr): autobrr redefines download automation for torrents and Usenet, drawing inspiration from tools like trackarr, autodl-irssi, and flexget. <!-- 855 stars -->
- * [mabel](https://github.com/smmr-software/mabel): Fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal <!-- 412 stars -->
+ * [TorrServ](https://github.com/YouROK/TorrServer): Torrent streaming server over http <!-- 543 stars -->
+ * [mabel](https://github.com/smmr-software/mabel): Fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal <!-- 237 stars -->
* [webtor.io](https://webtor.io/): free cloud BitTorrent-client <!-- not exclusively anacrolix/torrent maybe? 40-200 stars? -->
* [Android Torrent Client](https://gitlab.com/axet/android-torrent-client): Android torrent client <!-- 29 stars -->
* [libtorrent](https://gitlab.com/axet/libtorrent): gomobile wrapper <!-- 15 stars -->
* [Go-PeersToHTTP](https://github.com/WinPooh32/peerstohttp): Simple torrent proxy to http stream controlled over REST-like api <!-- 28 stars -->
* [CortexFoundation/torrentfs](https://github.com/CortexFoundation/torrentfs): Independent HTTP service for file seeding and P2P file system of cortex full node <!-- 21 stars -->
- * [Torrent WebDAV Client](https://github.com/Jipok/torrent-webdav): Automatic torrent download, streaming, WebDAV server and client. <!-- 1 star, https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent/issues/917 -->
* [goTorrent](https://github.com/deranjer/goTorrent): torrenting server with a React web frontend <!-- 156 stars, inactive since 2020 -->
* [Go Peerflix](https://github.com/Sioro-Neoku/go-peerflix): Start watching the movie while your torrent is still downloading! <!-- 449 stars, inactive since 2019 -->
- * [hTorrent](https://github.com/pojntfx/htorrent): HTTP to BitTorrent gateway with seeking support. <!-- 102 stars -->
* [Remote-Torrent](https://github.com/BruceWangNo1/remote-torrent): Download Remotely and Retrieve Files Over HTTP <!-- 57 stars, inactive since 2019 -->
* [Trickl](https://github.com/arranlomas/Trickl): torrent client for android <!-- 48 stars, inactive since 2018 -->
* [ANT-Downloader](https://github.com/anatasluo/ant): ANT Downloader is a BitTorrent Client developed by golang, angular 7, and electron <!-- archived -->
Here I'll describe what some of the packages in `./cmd` do. See [installation](#installation) to make them available.
-### `torrent`
+### torrent
-#### `torrent download`
+#### torrent download
Downloads torrents from the command-line.
$ torrent download 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:KRWPCX3SJUM4IMM4YF5RPHL6ANPYTQPU'
- ... lots of jibber jabber ...
+ ... lots of jibba jabber ...
downloading "ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso": 1.0 GB/1.0 GB, 1989/1992 pieces completed (1 partial)
2015/04/01 02:08:20 main.go:137: downloaded ALL the torrents
$ md5sum ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso
$ echo such amaze
wow
-#### `torrent metainfo magnet`
+#### torrent metainfo magnet
Creates a magnet link from a torrent file. Note the extracted trackers, display name, and info hash.
See `torrent metainfo --help` for other metainfo related commands.
-### `torrentfs`
+### torrentfs
torrentfs mounts a FUSE filesystem at `-mountDir`. The contents are the torrents described by the torrent files and magnet links at `-metainfoDir`. Data for read requests is fetched only as required from the torrent network, and stored at `-downloadDir`.