BitTorrent Client in Python (basic idea)

Just a small BitTorrent client made in Python. It connects to peers, downloads pieces, checks them, and puts the file back together. Mainly built to get a feel for how torrents actually work under the hood.

its JOB

• Talks to trackers and finds peers
• Downloads file pieces using asyncio
• Checks pieces with SHA-1 before saving
• Works for single or multi-file torrents
• Shows basic progress while downloading

to use (ik you know alr)

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/bittorrent-client.git
cd bittorrent-client
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py yourfile.torrent

file structure

bittorrent-client/
├── client/
│   ├── torrent.py
│   ├── tracker.py
│   ├── peer.py
│   ├── piece_manager.py
└── main.py

Get these first

bencodepy requests rich async-timeout

License

MIT, do whatever basically.