How to turn a torrent into a direct download

The popular Bittorrent indexer The Piratebay announced yesterday that the decision was made to switch the position of torrent and magnet link download links on the website in order to save bandwidth. Many media sites reported that The Piratebay would be dropping torrents altogether, but that is not true. While it is still possible to download torrent files directly from the site, most users will probably click on the first download link they see that is not advertisement, and that will load the magnet link instead now.

For those in a hurry: A magnet link is a hypertext link that contains information that the torrent client can use to find the data to download. Downloaders should not experience issues when they switch from torrents to magnet links. It may take longer before the client begins the download, but that is about it. Another issue is that without access to the torrent file, you cannot use it in a program like Torrific which turns torrents into direct http downloads.

What most users do not know is that their torrent client will actually save a torrent file once the magnet link has been added to the client and the download has been started. Torrents only appear here once the client has started downloading the file, and not before. Having to start to download the files to get the torrent link is not an optimal solution, but it seems to be the only option at this point in time.

Maybe someone will create a program in the future that downloads only the torrent file, for now, that's not possible. Update : So called torrent file caching services have come to some prominence in recent time. They cache magnet link and torrent file relations so that users can download torrents directly without having to use magnet links at all. As mentioned earlier, the main benefit here is that downloads start faster as all information required to do so are already available.

A program supporting these services is Magrent for Firefox. It supports all four services and provides you with options to download torrent files directly when you right-click on magnet links in the browser.

Good clients like Tixati already handle magnet links, so who need torrent files. Control the upload and download speed via the two boxes at the bottom. Press the Save button to save individual files to your drive or Remove to cancel the download.

This method has a few advantages. It bypasses P2P traffic shaping from an ISP because the torrent files are downloaded in the browser just like any other file. It also keeps you safe from anti-P2P organizations monitoring copyright infringing torrents. The drawback is most of the available free services are quite limited unless you pay for a subscription.

The default limit is 2GB which is both the overall storage limit and the maximum size of the torrent file you can download. This can be increased to over 6GB by accomplishing tasks such as inviting friends, posting a review or pinning a Seedr image on your Pinterest.

Seedr accepts local torrent files, magnet links or a URL of a remote torrent file. You can only transfer one torrent at a time to the Seedr servers but can download multiple completed torrents from Seedr.

We found the download speed very good and all our files downloaded at the maximum speed. If you find the limit at Seedr is not quite enough, there are other services like Torrent Safe or Direct Torrents that offer a 10GB file limit for free. They restrict you to only 3 downloads per month so are for occasional use only changing your IP address might get you another 3. Other popular names like Filestream, Bitport and especially ZBigZ are too restrictive to be of any great use in our view.

The most notable being Opera although it removed this ability when switching to the Chromium browsing engine in You can still download Opera A more up to date browser that includes a built in torrent client is Torch Browser. There is another called Citrio but it appears to be based on an outdated version of Chromium. In addition to the integrated torrent client, Torch also includes a download accelerator, social sharing button, games portal, music portal, media player, and a media grabber that downloads on page audio and video.

After install simply press the slider then the green button in the Torch toolbar to turn on torrenting and open the torrent client window. Choose the save to location and which files inside the torrent to download, then press OK to start the download.

The torrent Settings window allows for adjustment of a number of options commonly found in torrent clients. While you might not be able to install or run a dedicated torrent client, it may be possible to run a standard file download manager.

There are many around that handle normal file downloads but a few free managers are also able to download torrents. Flashget and Free Download manager are two that can handle torrents. During install, FDM will offer to associate itself with. When the program launches you can simply drop a. Alternatively, press the menu button top right to manually search for a torrent file or press the add button to paste in a remote torrent or magnet URL.

Traffic limit speeds, connections and a few torrent specific options like DHT, used ports and port forwarding can be controlled via the Settings window. A multi host download service is mainly for heavy downloaders using cyberlocker sites like Rapidgator or Uploaded etc. Some also include other download services like Usenet or BitTorrrent. The one we use is AllDebrid although there are other debrid services like RealDebrid that can handle torrents.

Alternatively, you can go for a bandwidth based service such as Premium. Go to the " Get live download buttons " pane of your burned file page and click the " Generate button " button. Have you tried Burnbit? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below. An Indonesian writer, self-proclaimed musician, and part time architect; who wants to make a world a better place one post at a time via his blog SuperSubConscious. Share Share Tweet Email.

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Torrenthandler allows you to download torrent files anonymously and at high speed. Just create a free account on the website and then you can upload your torrent. Torrenthandler will first download files from your torrent to their high-speed server and then provide you a direct download link to download it using IDM or any other download manager.

As torrent files are available to direct download through TorrentHandler, the only thing that limits your download speed is your own internet connection. Unlike how much you were limited with your torrent client, with TorrentHandler, you can get up to x download speed. Putdrive is another easy solution to allow you the facility of downloading large torrent files via IDM. It is a cloud storage service that supports torrent downloads too. Now, you can upload your torrent. Learn more Torrents are a peer networking solution for sharing files.

Some download managers allow you to download torrents directly and forego installing a separate torrent client. Downloading and opening torrent files will be done directly with the download manager. Log in Social login does not work in incognito and private browsers. Please log in with your username or email to continue. No account yet? Create an account. Edit this Article. We use cookies to make wikiHow great.

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