Free bittorrent downloads software for linux

Top Downloads provides a script that counts how many times a file has been downloaded.

It keeps statistics of your downloads and can generate a TOP10 of your downloaded files. The administration function of this script allows you to delete, rename or change count numbers for your downloads.

It can check a directory that you specify for new files and add it to a database. Count numbers and TOP10 can be included into a HTML document.

Most web servers require SSI documents to have the extension .shtml or .shtm

For Apache web servers:
- AddType text/html .shtml
- AddHandler server-parsed .shtml

Strato Log Download is a small Perl script intended to download logfiles from Web accounts from Strato hosted sites.
The problem is that the normal download interface is interactive, and that only about six weeks are kept on the server. So without scripting, youre likely to lose valuable log information (at least I was unable and unwilling to remember to download the logfiles once every six weeks).
This script logs in via the SSL-encrypted web-interface and downloads the files without needing a web-browser (proxies are configurable via the https_proxy environment variable).
Note: For SSL support, you might need additional Perl modules since some distros dont include crypto stuff: either use IO::Socket::SSL or Net::SSL (in Crypt::SSLeay).
If an SSL module is missing, https access will not work.
Usage is very easy:
$ get-logfiles -p mypassword www.mysite.de > logfile.gz
Enhancements:
- Feature: a new logfile download protocol was necessary, because the web interface changed (thanks to J. Puchalla for telling me -- it would probably have gone unnoticed otherwise).

Torrent Bubbles is an easy-to-use BitTorrent utility program which can search for torrents on the Web.

The main goal of Torrent Bubbles is simplicity, with only a search bar, two buttons, and the ability to double click a search result (to launch a download).

EZtorrent project is a program that simplifies the process of publishing content via BitTorrent.

EZtorrent automates the process of generating .torrent metainfo files, as well as starting trackers and seeders.

Although its very easy to download files BitTorrent, distributing your own files via BitTorrent yourself is not a comparatively straightforward process. You need to carefully generate .torrent metainfo files, start a tracker process, then start a seeder process for each individual .torrent file. EZtorrent combines all of this into one, easy step. Heres a "Quick Start" version of how easy it is to distribute BitTorrent content with EZtorrent:

Download and install BitTorrent according to its instructions.

Download EZtorrent, unpack the source code, run ./configure, make, and make install. See the INSTALL file for more information.

Run the following commands:

ezt create mytorrents /var/www/html/torrents /var/mytorrents
www.example.com 6969

Now, copy some files into /var/mytorrents

ezt start # Or "ezt restart", if ezt is already running

Thats it. ezt reads a list of all the files in /var/mytorrents. For each file, a corresponding .torrent file is created and placed in /var/www/html/torrents. Presumably this directory is published over the web with Apache, or some other HTTP server, where others can find them. Then, ezt starts a tracker process running on TCP port 6969 (the above example uses www.example.com as the DNS name of the machine running EZtorrent). Finally, ezt starts a seeder for each .torrent file.

New files can be added to, or removed from, /var/mytorrents at any time. After adding or removing files, run "ezt restart". ezt takes care of creating any new .torrents that need to be created, removing any obsolete .torrents of removed files, and starting or stopping the corresponding seeders. It is also possible to create different directories for different sets of files. You just need to specify a separate TCP port for each directory; ezt also takes care of starting (or stopping) a separate tracker process for each configured directory and port.

Although this is all that you need to know about using EZtorrent, be sure to review some additional important information in INSTALL and NEWS files, and EZtorrents manual page.

BitTorrent Queue Manager is a console-based BitTorrent client running on top of BitTornado that provides built-in queue management functions.
BitTorrent Queue Manager also provides a remote interface compatible with ABC for Web-based control. Furthermore, peer information can be queried, including country and network names, and a built-in crawler can gather new torrents on specified trackers or catalog sites for downloading automatically.
This is the new beginning of BTQueue. By upgrading to 0.1.0, you are able to:
- Utilize DHT network compatible to Bram Cohens client and BitComet
- Query IP location from updated database plus AS number (see ip2cc)
- Change client identifier to Azureus, Bram Cohens client, or BitComet

CTorrent is a BitTorrent client written in the C programming language, known to be a very robust and mature programming language, which produces fast and optimized applications. There are compilers for most operating systems, making programs written in C easy to port.
It currently runs on most Linux variants, MacOS and FreeBSD, but it hopefully run on Windows aswell! CTorrent is built as a console program, which means that it doesnt require any graphical components (such as an X server) on the machine you are running it on, you can even run it remotely through a terminal if you wish.
While a lot of people prefer a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for this kind of applications, there are quite a few people who run "console only" servers and want to use them to download files in the background. CTorrent can help you do exactly this, assuming you are downloading from the BitTorrent network.
Main features:
- Primary purpose of CTorrent is to provide a way to download files off the BitTorrent network.
- Runs on most Linux distributions, FreeBSD and MacOS.
- Does not require an X server, can be run as a consoleprogram from a shell (locally or remotely)
- Programmed in pure C, which means small and lightning fast executables.
- Opensource. Download the source-code of CTorrent and customize to fit your needs (requires C-programming skills)
- Has the ability to create new torrent-files (for seeding and sharing etc)
- Uses very little CPU and memory resources.

Retriever Download Manager program was written completely in the Java programming language and will run on any operating system with a Java Virtual Machine installed (JVM 1.4 or higher).
Retriever allows you to download files from the internet easier and with more control than from your web browser, with it you can resume interrupted downloads at any time thats convenient or even schedule downloads to occur when youre away from your computer. Even if one server is too busy to accomodate you Retriever will automatically switch to another to continue your download.
You can even temporarily pause your download and resume it instantly a few minutes later.
No matter how many times your download is interrupted or stopped Retriever gives you a successful download.
Retriever is highly reliable and customizable.
Downloads can be input manually into the program or captured from the clipboard.
You can also drag and drop links onto the download list to capture them. If a selection of text is dropped, it will be parsed for links, you can use this behaviour to add multiple files at once.
Main features:
- Resumable FTP and HTTP downloads.
- Support for BitTorrent transfers (starting with version 0.905).
- FTP and HTTP server authentication.
- supports HTTP, FTP and SOCKS proxies with authentication.
- Ability to add file download mirrors.
- Scheduled downloading.
- Pausable downloading.
- Execute external application on download start and/or completion.
- User customizable icons. See the file "Icon-Set.txt"in the icons/default.zip archive for details.
Enhancements:
- Removed "resume" button, paused downloads are now resumed with the "start download" button.
- Referer information can now be edited or input manually.
- Fixed problem with FTP servers that did not use the default port.
- Fixed issue where status information would be incorrect.