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WebTorrent [1] can be used to run BitTorrent on the web. It's actually integrated into the Brave browser which is a nice feature. Other browsers might catch on

• mc10 6y ago
  WebTorrent is pretty limited though: > ... a browser-based WebTorrent client or "web peer" can only connect to other clients that support WebTorrent/WebRTC. (from https://webtorrent.io/faq https://webtorrent.io/faq) This essentially splinters the world into the bittorrent and webtorrent halves, which makes it far less useful.
  • 0-_-0 6y ago
    WebTorrent is part of libtorrent now, so should be part of all torrent clients based on it, e.g. qBittorrent: https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/4123 https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/4123
    • capableweb 6y ago
      Not quite there yet. Latest release of libtorrent was 1.2.9, seems it's scheduled for "some branch" after 2.0 (https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/4123#issuecomment-676074545 https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/4123#issuecomment-...). Add in some time for clients to actually start using it as well, which is not guaranteed either. The DHT remains split for now.
  • vbezhenar 6y ago
    For some reason browser vendors do not allow JavaScript to connect to any port. So there's no other way.
  • Sean-Der 6y ago
    If you want a CLI/Desktop WebTorrent client https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent works great.
• aeyes 6y ago
  Caution: Don't open this page on a metered connection, immediately starts downloading a 130MB movie file.
  • clemParis 6y ago
    Ouch, I understand that it demoes their solution, but with the autoplay that's very insensitive.