mafintosh/peerflix

Health v2 · maintenance only

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6273 stars · 667 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Peerflix is a command-line streaming torrent client for Node.js that downloads torrents while simultaneously serving the video or audio over a local HTTP server. It can automatically launch players like VLC or mplayer to stream content from magnet links or .torrent files.

Use cases

• stream a video from a magnet link without waiting for the full download
• play a torrent's media files directly in vlc or mplayer
• serve torrent content over a local http address
• list and select individual files inside a torrent before downloading
• build a custom streaming torrent app on top of node.js

When to choose

• you want to watch or listen to torrent content as it downloads from the terminal
• you need a lightweight node.js-based torrent streaming client
• you want to pipe torrent media straight into vlc or mplayer

When to avoid

• you need a full-featured torrent client with a gui or seeding controls
• you want an actively developed project with recent releases
• you need chromecast support, which requires companion tools like peercast or castnow

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

http-server cli video-processing streaming p2p media developer-tools cli cross-platform bittorrent torrent-streaming vlc magnet-links video-streaming command-line nodejs

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