I built a terminal torrent client because Linux GUI clients kept breaking on me

Описание и применение

Торнедо – легковесный терминальный торрент‑клиент, который устраняет проблемы с графическими клиентами на Linux, обеспечивает безопасный скачивание и скриптабельность.

Задача

GUI torrent clients on Linux were either difficult to package outside Ubuntu/Debian or too heavy for an old laptop, causing frequent crashes.

Результат

Tornedo provides a lightweight, scriptable torrent client that runs on older Linux hardware, eliminates packaging issues, and offers crash‑safe downloads with structured metadata parsing.

Рабочий процесс

• Install Node (>=22) and Tornedo via npm or GitHub
• Launch Tornedo from the terminal
• Use the TUI or pipe output to jq for scripting
• Search multiple torrent indexers concurrently
• Merge and rank results to avoid duplicate listings
• Parse release titles into structured metadata (quality, codec, HDR, season/episode)
• Manually select files before download
• Start download; Tornedo reconciles state on restart
• Use tornedo doctor for diagnostics if issues arise

Доказательства

TUI built with Ink + React, but the whole thing is scriptable - skip the interactive UI and pipe output straight into jq if you want

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Crash-safe - reconciles download state on restart instead of leaving things half-verified

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