Open Source Python File Sharing Software

An advanced and multi-platform BitTorrent client with a nice Qt user interface as well as a Web UI for remote control and an integrated search engine. qBittorrent aims to meet the needs of most users while using as little CPU and memory as possible.

Zero Install is a decentralised cross-distribution software installation system. Create one package that works everywhere! With dependency handling and automatic updates, full support for shared libraries, and integration with native package managers

Fansly Downloader is the go-to app for all your bulk media downloading needs. Download photos, videos, audio, or any other media from Fansly, this powerful tool has got you covered! Say goodbye to the hassle of individually downloading each piece of media, now you can download them all or just some, with just a few clicks.

Tribler is a decentralized, privacy-enhanced BitTorrent client developed by researchers at Delft University of Technology. It introduces built-in anonymity using a Tor-like onion routing network and integrates its own blockchain for economic incentives and trust management. Tribler supports standard torrenting features along with distributed search, self-contained channels, and peer reputation. Its goal is to provide a fully autonomous file-sharing network without relying on external servers, search engines, or trackers.

Nicotine+ is a free and open-source graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer file-sharing network, popular for its focus on sharing music and niche content. Built in Python with a Qt-based GUI, Nicotine+ offers a lightweight yet feature-rich experience for users looking to share and discover files in a decentralized, user-governed environment. It includes search capabilities, bandwidth throttling, chat rooms, and user-to-user messaging, supporting a vibrant community of digital collectors and music lovers.

qBittorrent RuTracker plugin is a lightweight search engine extension designed to integrate the RuTracker torrent index directly into the qBittorrent client, allowing users to search for torrents without leaving the application interface. The plugin follows qBittorrent’s official search plugin architecture and is implemented as a Python script that communicates with the RuTracker website to retrieve and display search results. By embedding this functionality into the client, it streamlines the torrent discovery process and reduces the need for manual browsing across external websites. The plugin requires users to authenticate with RuTracker credentials, enabling access to content that may otherwise be restricted or hidden behind login requirements. It is designed to be simple to install and configure, typically involving placing the script in the appropriate directory and editing credentials.

OnionShare is an open source tool that allows you to securely and anonymously share files of any size, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network. There's no need for middlemen that could very well violate the privacy and security of the things you share online. With OnionShare, you can share files directly with just an address in Tor Browser. OnionShare works because it is accessible as a Tor Onion Service. All you need to do is open it and drag and drop the files you want to share into it, and start sharing. It will then generate an unguessable address which the recipient can open in the Tor Browser to download the files; they won't even need their own OnionShare.

Torrent Search is a cross-platform application, allowing to search for torrent files on different websites. Supported websites are integrated through plugins, which allows to easily extend the number of websites supported.

BitTorrent is a tool for distributed download. Go to http://www.bittorrent.com/ for the latest version, or http://www.bittorrent.com/dl/?C=M;O=D for source and older versions.

Kinto is a minimalist JSON storage service with synchronization and sharing abilities. It is meant to be easy to use and easy to self-host. Kinto is used at Mozilla and released under the Apache v2 license. It’s hard for frontend developers to respect users' privacy when building applications that work offline, store data remotely and synchronize across devices. Existing solutions either rely on big corporations that crave user data or require a non-trivial amount of time and expertise to set up a new server for every new project. We want to help developers focus on the front, and we don’t want the challenge of storing user data to get in their way. The path between a new idea and deploying to production should be short! Also, we believe data belong to the users, and not necessarily to the application authors. Applications should be decoupled from the storage location, and users should be able to choose where their personal data are stored.

Torrra is an open-source BitTorrent client and library focused on simplicity, performance, and extensibility for developers and self-hosted enthusiasts. It provides a command-line interface (CLI) and API that make it easy to add torrenting functionality to applications or automate downloads within scripts and workflows. The core of Torrra is built with modern asynchronous I/O and efficient resource handling, allowing it to manage multiple active torrents, peer connections, and swarm interactions without wasting CPU or memory. Users can add, pause, prioritize, and remove torrents dynamically, while the client intelligently manages piece selection, peer discovery, and bandwidth allocation to optimize download throughput. Torrra also includes hooks for event monitoring and status reporting, enabling third-party tools to visualize torrent progress or integrate with home automation dashboards.

ABC is a Bittorrent client which supports a queueing system with priority, global and local preferences for downloading torrents, multiple upload options for completed files, an adjustable display, and remote access via a web service.

iTorrent allows you to download BitTorrent podcasts from iTunes. It transforms BitTorrent podcasts so that you can update them just like any other podcast in iTunes.

Quamachi is a Hamachi GUI for Linux. It was designed by Xavion. Hamachi is a zero-configuration VPN service. It was designed by LogMeIn. Use Quamachi if you want to: * Access VPNs via a mature GUI * Browse remote Samba file-shares * Remotely control via SSH and VNC * Flexibly choose optional dependencies

cfv is a utility to both test and create .sfv(Simple File Verify), .csv, .crc, md5sum, bsd md5, sha1sum, and .torrent files. cfv also includes test-only .par and .par2 support. These are commonly used to ensure the correct retrieval or storage of data

This is an ***old archive*** of tools developed for facilitating the use of Creative Commons licenses and metadata. --- For the most up to date representation of any of the projects listed here, please see: http://creativecommons.org/project/Developer.

InterPlanetary Wayback (ipwb) facilitates permanence and collaboration in web archives by disseminating the contents of WARC files into the IPFS network. IPFS is a peer-to-peer content-addressable file system that inherently allows deduplication and facilitates opt-in replication. ipwb splits the header and payload of WARC response records before disseminating into IPFS to leverage the deduplication, builds a CDXJ index with references to the IPFS hashes returned, and combines the header and payload from IPFS at the time of replay. An important aspect of archival replay systems is rewriting various resource references for proper memento reconstruction so that they are dereferenced properly from the archive from around the same datetime as of the root memento and not from the live site (in which case the resource might have changed or gone missing). Many archival replay systems perform server-side rewriting, but it has its limitations when URIs are generated using JavaScript.

Nicotine+ is a fork of Hyriand's Soulseek PyGTK2 client, Nicotine. Fixing bugs, adding new features, and keeping up-to-date with Soulseek's protocol is the goal of this project. The most popular Multi-OS Soulseek client is getting an upgrade.

ADCH++ is a reference hub (server) implementation for the ADC (Advanced Direct Connect) network. It supports Windows / Unix platforms and is extensible with scripts in lua and python (so far) as well as C++ plugins.

Some useful helper tools for the eDonkey2000 and Overnet file-sharing programs (formerly ed2k_tools)

open source PLM system - Product Structure management (BOM management) system and Electronic documents management or Entreprise Content Management (ECM) system

Rufus - A powerful, easy to use, efficient Python based BitTorrent client. http://rufus.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

[[We are in the progress of moving to github]] Metalinks is a project to facilitate data distribution over mirrors and P2P networks. It does so by defining an XML format and the tools to handle these. The metalink files contain all the information needed to download and verify files.

Museek-Plus is a program-suite for the C++ museek daemon, a Soulseek/Soulfind P2P client. It includes the QT GUI, Museeq, and the Python/Curses TUI, Mucous. It supports chat, transferring files, searching, user-management shares browsing and more.

elFinder is a file manager for web similar to that you use on your computer. Written in JavaScript using jQuery UI, it just work's in any modern browser. Its creation is inspired by simplicity and convenience of Finder.app program used in Mac OS X.