mafintosh/torrent-stream

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1973 stars · 228 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

torrent-stream is a low-level Node.js streaming torrent client that exposes files inside a torrent as readable streams, downloading pieces on demand. It is the engine underlying peerflix and supports magnet links, DHT, trackers, and selective file streaming.

Use cases

• stream a video from a torrent without downloading the whole file first
• download only specific files from a torrent via magnet link
• pipe torrent file contents into another Node.js stream
• build a torrent-based media player or CLI like peerflix
• selectively fetch pieces of a torrent on demand

When to choose

• you need programmatic, stream-based access to torrent file contents in Node.js
• you want on-demand piece downloading rather than full sequential download
• you're building a higher-level tool like a torrent streaming player

When to avoid

• you need a full-featured torrent client with a UI (use WebTorrent or a desktop client)
• you need active maintenance and recent updates (last release was 2020)
• you want browser support (this is Node.js only)

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

streaming p2p http-server media files networking cross-platform torrent bittorrent magnet-links node-streams peer-to-peer video-streaming nodejs

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