# mafintosh/torrent-mount

Mount a torrent (or magnet link) as a filesystem in real time using torrent-stream and fuse. AKA MAD SCIENCE!

Repository: https://github.com/mafintosh/torrent-mount
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/torrent-mount
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2015-03-29T21:32:27+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": 4514, "days_push": 4175, "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 1415, forks 64 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:39.790062+00:00)

## What it is
A Node.js CLI tool that mounts torrents or magnet links as a filesystem in real time using torrent-stream and FUSE. Files appear in a mounted directory and stream on demand as they are accessed.

## Use cases
- mount a magnet link as a local folder
- stream torrent files without downloading fully
- browse torrent contents in a file browser
- lazily download only the files I open from a torrent
- access torrent data as regular files

## When to choose
- you want to stream or lazily access torrent contents as normal files on Linux or macOS
- you prefer a simple one-command CLI over a torrent client GUI

## When to avoid
- you need Windows support
- you need an actively maintained tool (last release 2015)
- you need a full torrent client with seeding and UI features

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: file-system, cli, web-scraping
- domain: files, developer-tools
- platform: cli
- tags: torrent, magnet-link, fuse, streaming, torrent-stream, command-line, macos, linux, nodejs

## Member repositories
- mafintosh/torrent-mount (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:39.790062+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 2026-08-30T04:38:09.664047+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mafintosh/torrent-mount (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:39.790062+00:00, sha 0bc27e62ff12)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/torrent-mount (fetched 2026-08-29T11:51:05.282700+00:00, sha dece0cc76de5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.