webtorrent/webtorrent

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⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web

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Dominant language: JavaScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 13, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
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64 open issues indexed

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
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
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
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
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
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
`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
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
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
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
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
Ability to bind to a network interface Open

accepted area/node help wanted

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#2158 · 2 comments · 12 reactions · Opened Jul 26, 2021
Priority for piece validation Open

accepted enhancement help wanted

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#2082 · 18 comments · Opened May 21, 2021
Dependency Dashboard Open

meta

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#2072 · Opened May 19, 2021
Unhandled error from simple-peer (Transport channel closed) Open

accepted area/browser bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#2064 · Opened May 14, 2021
Proposal: live streaming Open

area/protocol meta

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#1993 · 14 comments · 12 reactions · Opened Jan 28, 2021
Partial pieces are kept in memory leading to high RAM usage Open

accepted area/perf enhancement

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#1973 · 10 comments · Opened Nov 25, 2020
Client not destroying properly Open

bug

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#1931 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 13, 2020
Over 75% CPU usage and most of the run time is spent in epoll_pwait Open

accepted area/perf help wanted

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#1926 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 5, 2020
Automatic resumption after internet disconnet Open

accepted bug needs reproduction

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#1880 · Opened Jun 11, 2020
Silent failure when writing >4GB files to FAT32 filesystem Open

accepted area/ux bug help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#1970 · 4 comments · Opened May 3, 2020
Works perfectly, but also shows a bunch of errors Open

accepted area/browser area/ux bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#1845 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 3, 2020
Super seeding support Open

accepted area/protocol enhancement

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#1690 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 7, 2019
Dependency hygiene Open

accepted area/perf enhancement

webtorrent/webtorrent#1687 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 7, 2019
Use Hex encoding for infohashes and offers IDs in tracker protocol. Open

meta

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#1676 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 24, 2019
Piece not reverting to webseed if all webrtc peers go away Open

bug help wanted

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#1666 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 6, 2019
Pre negotiated dataChannel? Open

meta

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#1620 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 25, 2019
Too many pieces in progress with rarest strategy. Open

accepted area/perf enhancement

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#1558 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 9, 2018
Don't wait timeout on http failure (webseed) Open

accepted enhancement

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#1504 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 12, 2018
not able to download using S3 torrent Open

accepted help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#1474 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 17, 2018
Any plans for Canonical Peer Priority Open

accepted area/protocol enhancement

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#1406 · 6 comments · Opened May 29, 2018
Tracker announce causes chrome-extension to crash due to too many RTCPeerConnections construct Open

accepted enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#1349 · 8 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 9, 2018
No way to update the blocklist without restarting Open

accepted enhancement

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#1241 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 12, 2017
PEX over WebRTC in browser Open

accepted enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#1191 · 9 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2017
WebTorrent DHT integration Open

meta question

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#1152 · 14 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Jun 29, 2017
BitTorrent v2: Transition to a new hash function, info structure and merkle trees Open

accepted enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#1117 · 6 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Apr 26, 2017
Webtorrent not requesting pieces from peers when using a private tracker Open

accepted bug

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#1032 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 31, 2017
Incorrect path encoding when passing array of strings Open

accepted bug

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#983 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 22, 2016
client.add(infoHash [in hex]) doesn't appear to work. Open

accepted bug

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#902 · 8 comments · Opened Sep 5, 2016
Don't create wires until file verification is complete Open

accepted bug

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#889 · 13 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 24, 2016
Mutable torrents (BEP46) Open

accepted enhancement

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#886 · 45 comments · 15 reactions · Opened Aug 17, 2016
Add back "end game" mode Open

accepted area/perf bug

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#884 · Opened Aug 11, 2016
Feature Request: state object Open

accepted enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#872 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 22, 2016
Relocate/Rename individual files and continue seeding Open

accepted enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

webtorrent/webtorrent#853 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 6, 2016
Files duplicated when seeding nested folders Open

accepted bug

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#845 · 5 reactions · Opened Jun 22, 2016
SOCKS Proxy Support Open

accepted enhancement

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#807 · 38 comments · 4 reactions · Opened May 17, 2016
Allow deleting deselected files Open

accepted enhancement

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

webtorrent/webtorrent#806 · 10 comments · Opened May 17, 2016

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