BitTorrent Downloader Container

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Intro

This is a small Docker container that will download a torrent from the supplied URI of a .torrent file or magnet link.

Necessary Options and Environment Vars

• -v: You will need to mount a local directory to /root/Downloads
• -e "URI=...": You need to supply the torrent URI as an environment variable

Example usage

Let's use the Ubuntu Server torrent in our example.

• Build or Pull
  • Build
    • docker build -t drewpearce/bt .
  • Pull
    • docker pull drewpearce/bt
• Run container and destroy after completion
  • docker run --rm -v $HOME/Downloads:/root/Downloads -e "URI=http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04/ubuntu-18.04-live-server-amd64.iso.torrent" drewpearce/bt

TODO

• Documentation
• Support Magnet links
• Easy run script
• Post to dockerhub
• Reduce Image Size
• Investigate Alpine Linux for even smaller size