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This chapter provides a small manual for using the implemented
BitTorrent client. The BitTorrent client is provided as an optional
add-on for ELinks, and needs to be enabled at compile time. To build
ELinks with BitTorrent support be sure to either pass
--enable-bittorrent to ./configure or change the value of
CONFIG_BITTORRENT to yes in features.conf.
To start the client, first go to a site which offers metainfo files. In the following, we will use the site http://www.legaltorrents.com/. Direct ELinks to this site by issuing the command:
$ elinks http://www.legaltorrents.com/
Use the arrow keys to move between links on the page. Find a link,
which points to a metainfo file (a file having the extension
.torrent). This is indicated in the status bar in the bottom line.
Once a metainfo file has been located, press the Return key. This
should present you with the following dialog, querying whether the
client should start to download the torrent:
+--------------------------- What to do? ----------------------------+ | | | What would you like to do with the file 'go-open-vol-2.torrent'? | | Information about the torrent: | | Size: 739 MiB (2959 * 262144 + 161542) | | Info hash: d85ef7b05288dc49203a7de97545e6c132834011 | | Announce URI: http://www.legaltorrents.com:7070/announce | | Creation date: Jun 26 08:04 | | Directory: go-open-vol-2 | | | | [X] 105 MiB go-open-episode-07.mp4 | | [X] 105 MiB go-open-episode-08.mp4 | | [X] 105 MiB go-open-episode-09.mp4 | | [X] 104 MiB go-open-episode-10.mp4 | | [X] 105 MiB go-open-episode-11.mp4 | | [X] 107 MiB go-open-episode-12.mp4 | | [X] 106 MiB go-open-episode-13.mp4 | | [X] 22 KiB go-open-vol-2.txt | | | | [ Download ] [ Save ] [ Display ] [ Show header ] [ Cancel ] | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
Press the [ Download ] button to open the download dialog and start
downloading.
Downloaded files can be found in the directory specified by the option
document.download.directory. There is currently no way to change
that.