webtorrent support

[lzbk]

Is there any chance rtorrent will be able to work with webtorrent in the foreseeable future ?

Due to the existence of peertube (like mentioned in #679), I think it's important that regular bittorrent clients are able to interact with the platform.

I'm mentioning @feross in the issue, just in case the people at webtorrent are able to lend a hand.

(thanks for all the work done and for all the ongoing work on rtorrent !)

[farribeiro]

Have a PR with changes?

[tuxayo]

We need at least to have a green-light from @rakshasa that the feature is desired in the project. Then eventually someone with the resources could try something.

[shapm]

I'd love to see this implemented, it would be a game changer for webtorrent because currently no other supported client can handle thousands of torrents.

[Allardje]

So this is never going to happen right? :(

[mattgorecki]

So this is never going to happen right? :(

Looks like libtorrent support will be available fairly soon. arvidn/libtorrent#4123

[modbender]

No progress here? waiting for it since my seedbox (seedbox.io) uses it.

[tuxayo]

@mattgorecki

Looks like libtorrent support will be available fairly soon

it's not the same:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTorrent

"libTorrent" redirects here. It is not to be confused with libtorrent.

[tuxayo]

@rakshasa can you tell if such support would be desirable or if you can already tell that you won't have the time to review such large changes?