Amazon cloud as torrent downloader

The first release of version 2 is ready!

This version is deprecated. If you'd like to be the maintainer or contributer of this version, please leave a comment here.

A torrent client in the cloud, written in Node.js

There are a various existing cloud torrent services (bitport.io, btcloud.io, put.io), though they're all subscription-based or have limits imposed. Torrent Cloud is intended to be self-hosted on your own cloud compute combined with your own cloud storage. When a file is downloaded, Torrent Cloud simultaneously downloads and uploads the file, so when a torrent is complete, you'll find it in your own storage.

Disclaimer This project was created to bring about an addition download channel to defeat unfair BitTorrent protocol restrictions imposed by enterprises and ISPs. It was intended for downloading legal, non-copywrite material, such as: public linux distributions, personal files, large public statistical datasets, public domain images and videos from archive.org, etc. This project will not take any responsibility for any illegal use, by using this software you agree to these terms.

Features

• Embedded torrent search
• Load torrents via magnet URI or torrent file URL
• Magnet URI editor
• Responsive WebUI (Mobile friendly)
• Download all as streaming ZIP file
• Uses high-bandwidth upload download of cloud providers

Installation

1. Collect the environment variables

   1. Setup your cloud storage (Choose one)

      • AWS

        1. Sign up for a free for 1 year Amazon Web Services account
        2. Go to the AWS Console
        3. Retrieve your API keys (Top-right menu )
        4. Create an S3 bucket in the region closest to you
        5. You'll need your AWS Access key (Required)
        6. You'll need your AWS Secret key (Required)
        7. You'll need the S3 bucket name (Required)
        8. You'll need the S3 bucket region code (Required see region codes)

      • Mega Warning: the Mega backend is quite buggy

        1. Sign up for a free Mega account
        2. You'll need your username (email address) (Required)
        3. You'll need your password (Required)

      Note: See the contribute section for adding more storage backends

   2. Consider these optional variables

      1. Listening interface (Optional defaults to all )
      2. Listening port (Optional default )
      3. HTTP Basic Auth (Optional default )
      4. HTTP Basic Auth (Optional if set HTTP auth will be enabled)
      5. URL to a JSON configuration file (Optional see below)

2. Choose a cloud hosting environment

   1. Heroku

      1. Sign up for a free Heroku account