Questions tagged [magnet-links]
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What's the difference between a torrent file and a Magnet link?
What's the difference between a torrent file and a Magnet link?
What is the difference between usage, can I use μTorrent to download files from a Magnet link?
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How to change default program to open magnet link in windows?
Recently I installed BitComet. Now when I click a torrent magnet link from chrome it opens with BitComet though I changed the settings of BitComet to not to be the default program to open magnet links. I couldn't find default magnet link settings in…
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Linux BitTorrent client with support for magnet links
Is there a Linux application (bonus points for being console/headless) that supports magnet links - like the ones provided now by some famous "bay" for pirate BitTorrent users?
user7385
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Is it possible to retrieve magnet link via transmission-remote?
I'm running torrents on the home server, and I talk to home server via the transmission-remote utility. I'd like to retrieve the magnet link for one of my torrents, however this seems to be impossible, as the transmission-remote -t[torrent-id] -i…
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Where does a magnet/torrent client look for the hash/torrent/file?
In short:
Wikipedia mentions a required "availability search" to find peers (and the actual file):
Note that, although a particular file is indicated, an availability search for it must still be carried out by the client application.
Where does…
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How to convert .torrent file into magnet link?
I'm interested of converting a .torrent binary file into a magnet file.
What are the possibilities to achieve that in Linux/Unix/OSX?
Sample format:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:adc83b19e793491b1c6ea0fd8b46cd9f32e592fc
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How can I download magnet links through the command line with rtorrent on Linux?
How can I download magnet links through the command line with rtorrent on Linux (Ubuntu)?
I know that I can
Run rtorrent
Hit Backspace
Paste magnet link
Hit Enter
However I want one or several command lines, not keyboard shortcuts.
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google chrome. linux. XDG-OPEN keep asking me (forever) what to do with magnet links
(i'm on latest chrome beta (64) but it is happening in all the previous version of chrome i used.)
when i press magnet links in google chrome, i get this card:
Open xdg-open?
so i mark to always open these types of links... and then press open…
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How to make uTorrent open magnet links from Google Chrome?
Nothing happens when I click on a magnet:// link on Google Chrome. How to make that when I click on a magnet:// link on Chrome, uTorrent opens it?
user193540
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How do I download a magnet link in ctorrent?
Enhanced ctorrent apparently supports magnet links. How do I download from a magnet link using ctorrent?
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Chrome doesn't open automatically magnet links anymore
I had to do a profile reset since the "Translate to" option in context menu stopped worked; after I did the reset, any time I open a magnet link instead of it automatically beginning downloading it asks every time to open my torrent manager.
I know…
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links 2.7 and magnet links
I use transmission-daemon and web interface for downloading torrent and text browsers (links, lynx).
How I can handle magnet-links in text browsers?
I added x-scheme/magnet with transmission-daemon in applications, but I get message 'Unsupported URL…
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How to send multiple magnet links to a separate headless Linux machine?
With torrents, we could use w3m (Linux) to pass multiple torrent files to a separate machine running rtorrent. This doesn't work with magnet links. We can pass magnet links from Firefox to Azureus with no problem, but the sending machine and the…
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Opera's problem with magnet-links
I've encountered following problem while using Opera web browser:
When I click on a magnet link on some web page like
magnet:?xt=urn:tree:tiger:CXW6MJFRNOEFU2STCBWWOIYZLVCR2FTR37SQCXY&xl=352342016&dn=ER%20-%207x16%20-%20Witch%20Hunt.avi
Opera is…
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What's wrong with magnet link?
I thought that using magnet links for torrents precluded me from saving torrent files to hard drive.
But it appears there's a folder - C:\Users\homedir\Appdata\Roaming\uTorrent that contains all torrent files which i didnt download (i used magnet…
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