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24 alternatives to Webtor – open-source torrent streaming engine

Hi HN, I built Webtor — an open-source engine that lets you stream .torrent and magnet links directly in the browser. - No swarm exposure — all torrent traffic runs server-side - In-browser playback via HLS - Progressive download with resume support - Lightweight JS SDK and public API - Fully self-hostable via Docker Demo: https://webtor.io GitHub: https://github.com/webtor-io SDK: https://github.com/webtor-io/embed-sdk-js Self-hosted: https://github.com/webtor-io/self-hosted API:…

Webtor is an open-source torrent streaming engine that allows users to stream .torrent and magnet links directly in web browsers. All torrent traffic is processed server-side rather than exposing the user to the swarm.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Stream torrents

    2016 · webtorrent.io · its alternatives →

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    Access files on the decentralized, unblockable torrent swarm and visit links using Handshake domains. Decentralized internet is here. - publiusfederalist/federalist

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, This is Jan, founder of Apify, a web scraping and automation platform. Drawing on our team's years of experience, today we're launching Crawlee [1], the web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js that's designed for the fastest development and maximum reliability in production. For details, see the short video [2] or read the announcement blog post [3]. Main features: - Supports headless browsers with Playwright or Puppeteer - Supports raw HTTP crawling with Cheerio or JSDOM - Automated parallelization and scaling of crawlers for best performance - Avoids blocking using…

    2022 · crawlee.dev · its alternatives →

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    Web application that indexes all popular torrent sites, and saves it to the local database. - sergiotapia/magnetissimo

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An open source Webflow alternative

    2023 · webstudio.is · its alternatives →

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    A self contained OBS -> FTL -> WebRTC live streaming server. Comprised of 3 parts once configured anyone can achieve sub-second OBS to the browser livestreaming - GRVYDEV/Project-Lightspeed

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ServBay▲399

    Hello HN, I’m one of the creators of ServBay. I built this because I got tired of the cognitive load required just to start coding. On my Mac, it was a fragile mix of Homebrew services and asdf conflicts. On Windows, managing PATH variables and fighting with Docker Desktop's resource usage was equally frustrating. I missed the simplicity of the MAMP/XAMPP era, but I needed to support modern stacks (Go, Rust, Node, etc.). What it is: ServBay is a native local development environment for both macOS and Windows. It is not a wrapper around Docker or VMs. It bundles everything you need into…

    2024 · servbay.com · its alternatives →

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    Webapp.io is a DevOps platform for developers of modern webapps.

    2023 · webapp.io · its alternatives →

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    Autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite. - boramalper/magnetico

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite - torrent-net/README.md at master · lmatteis/torrent-net

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Earlier this year, we released our open-source game engine [0] built with Rust, WebAssembly, and WebGPU. Today, we’re happy to announce the Ambient platform, which brings web deployment, server hosting, and more to the runtime. With Ambient, you can make a game, deploy it to the browser in one command, share your URL and instantly play with others, no downloads or installs needed. Our WASM use is innovative; it is being used as both a sandboxed runtime for user code, and as a way to run the entire Ambient runtime in the browser. This, paired with our ECS data model, enables a highly modular…

    2023 · ambient.run · its alternatives →

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    Hello everyone! I'm currently in a journey to learn and improve my Elixir and Go skills (my daily job uses C++) and looking through my backlog for projects to take on I decided Elixir is the perfect language to write a highly-parallel BitTorrent tracker. So I have spent my free time these last 3 months writing one! Now I think it has enough features to present it to the world (and a docker image to give it a quick try). I know some people see trackers as relics of the past now that DHT and PEX are common but I think they still serve a purpose in today's Internet (purely talking about public…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    🧲 Easy to Use Torrent Client. Can be hosted in Cloud. Files can be streamed in Browser/Media Player. - varbhat/exatorrent

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Crawlee▲229

    Build reliable web scrapers and robots, fast!

    2022 · crawlee.dev · its alternatives →

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    A purely bash web server, no socat, netcat, etc... - GitHub - dzove855/Bash-web-server: A purely bash web server, no socat, netcat, etc...

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC. - m1k1o/neko

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Torrent streaming library for the browser or Node.js server

    2016 · webtorrent.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey there! This is Dan and Ustin (@uzarubin), and we want to share something cool we've been working on for the past year - an open-source `tail -f` for your data, with a UI. We call it "Streamdal" which is a word salad for streaming systems (because we love them) and DAL or data access layer (because we’re nerds). Here's the repo: https://github.com/streamdal/streamdal Here's the site: https://streamdal.com And here's a live demo: https://demo.streamdal.com (github repo has an explanation of the demo) — — — THE PROBLEM We built this because the…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids - caprover/README.md at master · caprover/caprover

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A very low memory-footprint, self hosted API-only torrent search engine. Sonarr + Radarr Compatible, native support for Linux, Mac and Windows. - sergiotapia/torrentinim

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Retriever (https://retriever.corgea.io/), an open-source research project to help users receive secrets and sensitive information without needing a server in the middle. It works by using Public-key cryptography to coordinate the message sharing between the two devices. Read more on why we built it here: https://retriever.corgea.io/why.html

    2024 · retriever.corgea.io · its alternatives →

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    Synapse BitTorrent Daemon. Contribute to Luminarys/synapse development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

  24. 24WL

    My company launched a new open source web browser built on Chromium. It supports decentralized domains on Handshake and is the first browser to support .eth DNS. It is also the first browser to support secure web browsing with DANE. Check it out: https://impervious.com/beacon https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon

    2022 · its alternatives →

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