KTorrent

Updated on Sep 21, 2024

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Written in C++ (Qt)		Operating system Unix-like

Developer(s) Joris Guisson, Ivan Vasić Stable release 5.0.1 (April 17, 2016; 10 months ago (2016-04-17)) [±] Preview release 4.3 RC (August 14, 2012; 4 years ago (2012-08-14)) [±] Repository anongit.kde.org/ktorrent.git

KTorrent is a BitTorrent client that is part of the KDE Software Compilation.

Features

KTorrent is often received as a client intended to be feature rich. Features include:

Upload and download speed capping / throttling & scheduling

Internet searching with torrent search engines using KHTML part.

Support for UDP trackers.

IP address blocklist plugin

Port forwarding with UPnP (Universal Plug and Play)

DHT (mainline version), and support for trackerless torrents

µTorrent peer exchange (PEX) support

File Prioritization

Ability to import partially downloaded files

Directory scanner to automatically watch directories for new torrents

Manual addition of trackers to torrents

RSS feed support

Web interface plugin with default port number 8080

IPv6 support

SOCKS v4 and v5 support

µTP support

Generation and parsing of magnet links

UDP tracker scraping

Enhanced usability of the queue manager

Streaming of video while downloading

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