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Dev tools · December 3, 2023

Rqbit – bittorent CLI and desktop app written in Rust

A bittorrent client in Rust. Contribute to ikatson/rqbit development by creating an account on GitHub.

Rqbit – bittorent CLI and desktop app written in Rust launched on December 3, 2023 with 78 votes, #684 of 3,780 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

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In plain words

Rqbit is a BitTorrent client available as both a command-line tool and desktop application, built using the Rust programming language. It is designed for developers and users who need to download and share files via the BitTorrent protocol. The tool stands out for its implementation in Rust, which provides memory safety and performance benefits compared to traditional BitTorrent clients written in other languages.

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From the sources

rqbit is a torrent client written in Rust, available as a CLI, HTTP API and a desktop app (Windows and OSX). v4.0.0 has several new major features since the last stable release. Rqbit now has a desktop app! Thanks to Tauri it was extremely easy to build on top of existing components. You can download it for your OS in the release files below. Previously, (lib)rqbit only could download a torrent forever. With 4.0.0 you can pause, unpause, and delete torrents. All of this is available through HTTP API, Web UI and in the desktop app, and of course in librqbit . Rqbit now can remember the state it was in and restore from it on restart. This is the default when running rqbit server start or in…from github.com

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