# mafintosh/peerflix

Streaming torrent client for node.js

Repository: https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/peerflix
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2022-06-19T23:29:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4920, "days_push": 1536, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6273, forks 667 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:41.197234+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: http-server, cli, video-processing, streaming, p2p
- domain: media, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: bittorrent, torrent-streaming, vlc, magnet-links, video-streaming, command-line, nodejs

## Member repositories
- mafintosh/peerflix (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:41.197234+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:46:29.418154+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:41.197234+00:00, sha 721144b72a85)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/peerflix (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:17.409379+00:00, sha 2b40bd033ef0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.