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webtorrent
⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web

JavaScript · 31401 stars
webtorrent-desktop
❤️ Streaming torrent app for Mac, Windows, and Linux

JavaScript · 10116 stars
bittorrent-tracker
🌊 Simple, robust, BitTorrent tracker (client & server) implementation

JavaScript · 1941 stars
webtorrent-cli
WebTorrent, the streaming torrent client. For the command line.

JavaScript · 1370 stars
bittorrent-dht
🕸 Simple, robust, BitTorrent DHT implementation

JavaScript · 1282 stars
parse-torrent
Parse a torrent identifier (magnet uri, .torrent file, info hash)

JavaScript · 463 stars
bittorrent-protocol
Simple, robust, BitTorrent peer wire protocol implementation

JavaScript · 359 stars
create-torrent
Create .torrent files

JavaScript · 357 stars
magnet-uri
Parse a magnet URI and return an object of keys/values

JavaScript · 238 stars
torrent-discovery
Discover BitTorrent and WebTorrent peers

JavaScript · 228 stars
node-bencode
bencode de/encoder for nodejs

JavaScript · 173 stars
webtorrent.io
The code that runs the WebTorrent website

JavaScript · 131 stars
ut_metadata
BitTorrent Extension for Peers to Send Metadata Files (BEP 9)

JavaScript · 112 stars
bittorrent-peerid
Map a BitTorrent peer ID to a human-readable client name and version

JavaScript · 71 stars
ut_pex
Implementation of ut_pex bittorrent protocol (PEX) for webtorrent

JavaScript · 61 stars
bittorrent-lsd
Local Service Discovery (BEP14) implementation

JavaScript · 39 stars
fs-chunk-store
Filesystem (fs) chunk store that is abstract-chunk-store compliant

JavaScript · 35 stars
webtorrent-fixtures
Sample torrent files for the WebTorrent test suite

JavaScript · 25 stars
load-ip-set
download and parse ip-set (blocklist) files

JavaScript · 24 stars
addr-to-ip-port
Convert an "address:port" string to an array [address:string, port:number]

JavaScript · 13 stars
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Incomplete 33-39 char InfoHash is erroneously parsed as Base32 due to unanchored regex Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

webtorrent/magnet-uri#132 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 23, 2026
No `proxyOpts` value can proxy both HTTP and WS trackers Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

webtorrent/bittorrent-tracker#593 · Opened Aug 22, 2026
`proxyOpts.socksProxy` cannot proxy UDP trackers Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

webtorrent/bittorrent-tracker#592 · Opened Aug 22, 2026
Unguarded this.pieces[index] still throws in v3.0.21 (#3091 was closed with no change) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#3104 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2026
ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

webtorrent/webtorrent-cli#365 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 26, 2026
Last version of Webtorrent stop working Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop#2524 · Opened Jul 25, 2026
Working ARM64 (Apple Silicon) build available Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop#2522 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Jul 19, 2026
file.deselect() drops shared pieces from the active download pool, causing torrents to hang at 99% Open

accepted bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#3083 · Opened Jul 7, 2026
Installation issues Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

webtorrent/webtorrent-cli#355 · 6 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jun 2, 2026
Skipped files via deselect() method cause creation of empty folders locally Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#3015 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 3, 2026
Security Vulnerability: Path Traversal Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#3012 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 21, 2026
Remove duplicates. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

webtorrent/bep53-range#50 · Opened Sep 30, 2025
Implement (partial) BEP 51 support Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

webtorrent/bittorrent-dht#310 · Opened Jul 7, 2025
--select / -s downloads the whole torrent instead of the specified file Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

webtorrent/webtorrent-cli#331 · 13 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 3, 2025
choke slow peers Open

accepted area/perf enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#2954 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 19, 2025
PeX never sends it's own local peers, only receives from remote. Open

accepted area/node

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#2919 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 28, 2025
bug: utp conn pool randomly errors and causes torrent to hang Open

accepted area/node bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#2890 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 16, 2024
Server does not validate that offer_id is 20 bytes Open

accepted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

webtorrent/bittorrent-tracker#525 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 6, 2024
Unable to parse some torrent meta files Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

webtorrent/parse-torrent#189 · Opened Jul 11, 2024
de-duplicate IP packages Open

accepted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#2821 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2024
webtorrent-cli not functioning on MUSL Open

accepted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

webtorrent/webtorrent-cli#313 · 13 comments · Opened Jun 15, 2024
Introduction example is broken on https://webtorrent.io/intro Open

accepted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#2776 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 18, 2024
decode.bytes does not adhere to abstract-encoding spec Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

webtorrent/node-bencode#178 · Opened Apr 1, 2024
Support utf-8 encoded comment field Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

webtorrent/parse-torrent#177 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 3, 2023
`add` and `remove` are not async safe Open

accepted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#2685 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2023
add example code to decode torrent file Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 62/100

webtorrent/node-bencode#162 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 30, 2023
Bittorrent v2 support Open

accepted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

webtorrent/bittorrent-tracker#480 · 16 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2023
`node-bencode` can produce dictionary entries with duplicate keys. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

webtorrent/node-bencode#146 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 3, 2023
Option to bind to a specific network interface Open

accepted enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop#2347 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 27, 2023
Integers should have no size limitation. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

webtorrent/node-bencode#143 · Opened May 21, 2023
Roundtripping torrent files through parse-torrent modifes announce lists Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

webtorrent/parse-torrent#152 · 3 reactions · Opened May 16, 2023
It sorts dictionary entries incorrectly. Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

webtorrent/node-bencode#142 · Opened May 10, 2023
Docs outdated Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

webtorrent/webtorrent.io#278 · Opened Apr 10, 2023
Error: Package subpath './index.js' is not defined by "exports" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

webtorrent/bittorrent-protocol#115 · Opened Apr 6, 2023
`peer_id` from announce query string interpreted as latin1 then converted to UTF-8 before being returned as a transformed and wrong value in the peer list. Open

accepted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

webtorrent/bittorrent-tracker#460 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 31, 2023
improve web seeds: abstract web seed Open

accepted area/perf enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#2467 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 28, 2023
parseTorrent.toMagnetURI is not a function Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

webtorrent/parse-torrent#126 · Opened Dec 27, 2022
Drop peers which feed incorrect pieces multiple times Open

accepted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#2432 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Dec 18, 2022
ERR_PACKAGE_PATH_NOT_EXPORTED when importing this package in fastify Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

webtorrent/parse-torrent#123 · 7 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Dec 3, 2022
New Release? 0.24.1 Open

accepted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop#2272 · 3 comments · 17 reactions · Opened Oct 12, 2022
Error sending telemetry Error: certificate has expired Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

webtorrent/webtorrent.io#250 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 8, 2022
feature request: BitTorrent v2 support Open

accepted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

webtorrent/create-torrent#177 · 7 comments · Opened Aug 15, 2022
Add JSdocs comments to improve readability in the codebase. Open

accepted area/docs help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#2279 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 17, 2022
Please change default port from 8080, which is commonly used!!! Open

accepted good first contribution help wanted

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop#2142 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 14, 2022
update aria2 peer id Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

webtorrent/bittorrent-peerid#30 · Opened Dec 29, 2021
BEP 55 hole punching Open

accepted area/node area/protocol

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#2213 · 7 comments · Opened Nov 1, 2021
Dependency Dashboard Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 10/100

webtorrent/fs-chunk-store#22 · Opened Oct 25, 2021
TypeError: Cannot use 'in' operator to search for 'result' in undefined Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

webtorrent/webtorrent-cli#200 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 24, 2021
Include WebTorrent on Winget package manager for Windows. Open

accepted help wanted platform/windows

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop#2060 · 3 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Oct 5, 2021
infoHash may be undefined in types Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

webtorrent/parse-torrent#105 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 14, 2021

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