torrent-dl
Popcorn Time was/is a really cool solution to play torrents directly while its being downloaded in the background, if you can get one of the installers to work. I really love Peerflix, it just works.
This is a port of my beloved peerflix to python. I really need to get it to packaging it, so that I can just apt-get it :)
You can simultaneously watch and download a torrent at the same time. It also supports random and incremental seek functionality of the media player.
All you have to do is torrent-dl [magnet link]
It will automatically start playing once it has downloaded a certain portion of the file depending on your internet speed.
Built on pyflix. Contains both the torrent library and the media streamer. Feel free to build awesome stuff on top of it.
PyPi package - torrent-dl
Installation on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install libtorrent-rasterbar8 python-libtorrent
pip install torrent-dl
Installation on Mac OS
brew update
brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
brew install boost --build-from-source --with-python --universal
brew install libtorrent-rasterbar --enable-python-binding --with-python --with-boost-python=mt
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libtorrent.so /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/.
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/python_libtorrent-1.0.3-py2.7.egg-info /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/.
pip install torrent-dl
Usage
torrent-dl [-h] [--serve] [--port PORT] [--download DOWNLOAD] [--verbose] [--player PLAYER] magnet
positional arguments:
magnet The magnet link to download
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--serve Do not run VLC
--port PORT, -p PORT The port where the stream will be served
--download DOWNLOAD, -d DOWNLOAD The path where the torrent will be downloaded
--verbose Show all the logs
--player PLAYER Only vlc for now