Examples

Open in VLC

Running the following commands from a shell will run VLC and start playing the Sintel movie stream from its public torrent:

By infohash (BTIH)

vlc "http://localhost:3000/stream/08ada5a7a6183aae1e09d831df6748d566095a10"

By magnet URI

vlc "http://localhost:3000/stream?torrent=magnet:?xt=urn:btih:08ada5a7a6183aae1e09d831df6748d566095a10&file=Sintel.mp4"

or

vlc "http://127.0.0.1:3000/stream/magnet%3A%3Fxt%3Durn%3Abtih%3A08ada5a7a6183aae1e09d831df6748d566095a10?file=Sintel.mp4"

Download file using curl

This command will download Sintel movie from torrents and save as sintel.mp4.

curl "http://localhost:3000/stream/08ada5a7a6183aae1e09d831df6748d566095a10" > sintel.mp4