WOwoleium·Nov 25, 2025
rutorrent web fronted for rtorrent is still a thing too! https://github.com/Novik/ruTorrent
In A ncurses-based command line torrent client for high performanceNovik
ruTorrent
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Novik / ruTorrent
ruTorrent
Yet another web front-end for rTorrent
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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3 sourcesI use that with a rutorrent[1] front-end since 13 years, works great!
I even have multiple instances on a server for multiple users. We have a lot of Linux distro to download, the bunch of us.
[1] https://github.com/Novik/ruTorrent
In A ncurses-based command line torrent client for high performanceI'll be trying this out, it could work well with Cloud Torrent. I've largely moved away from Torrents tho and switched to using NZB's and apps that automatically download tv shows and films[0]
Here is my stack:
1. NZB downloader - NZBGet - http://nzbget.net/
2. TV Shows - Sonarr - https://sonarr.tv/
3. Films - CouchPotato - https://couchpota.to/
4. NZB Search - NZBHydra - https://github.com/theotherp/nzbhydra (I contribute to this project)
5. Plex - https://www.plex.tv/
Add Torrent support:
6. Client - rtorrent - https://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/
7. Web Interface - ruTorrent (warning: PHP) - https://github.com/Novik/ruTorrent
8. Proxy private trackers to XML-RPC - Jackett - https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett
9. Cloud Torrent - web interface - https://github.com/jpillora/cloud-torrent
Additional:
10. Plex stats, analytics and user manag
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ement - PlexPy - https://github.com/JonnyWong16/plexpy
11. Plex request - allow users to request content - https://github.com/ngovil21/PlexRequestChannel.bundle
Hardware is a pair of HP Proliant Gen8 microservers, Ubuntu 14, Docker, nginx and LetsEncrypt. There is no real easy way to set this all up, you have to do each part of the stack yourself (a docker-compose file would go a long way to simplifying it)
[0] I spend over $200 a month on content subscriptions so I don't feel bad about utilizing the conveniance of NZB downloads + Plex