Overview

🌊 Simple, robust, BitTorrent tracker (client & server) implementation WebTorrent, the streaming torrent client for the browser, Mac, Windows, and Linux

Key Features

Source: GitHub README

Includes client & server implementations
Supports all mainstream tracker types:
HTTP trackers
UDP trackers (BEP 15)
WebTorrent trackers (BEP forthcoming)
Supports ipv4 & ipv6
Supports tracker “scrape” extension
Robust and well-tested
Comprehensive test suite (runs entirely offline, so it’s reliable)
Used by popular clients: WebTorrent, peerflix, and playback

Getting Started

Source: GitHub README

npm install bittorrent-tracker

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

npm, offline mode.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

Features

Mobile & Desktop

Offline Mode

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