mpv-gotorrent
Stream torrents and magnet links directly in mpv with zero setup, no external daemons, and optional in-memory caching.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 25, 2026 · 13 upvotes (top 83%) · 0 views
Niche: streaming media players and tools · 616 launches, 349 in the last 7 days ▲ +1026% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- golang
- lua
- magnet-link
- media-player
- mpv
- mpv-script
- +3 more
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More like this: all 616 launches in streaming media players and tools →
Could you build this?
Yes The hard part of torrent streaming is already solved by existing libraries such as libtorrent or anacrolix/torrent. Wiring a streaming HTTP endpoint to mpv via its script or IPC interface is standard glue code a vibe-coding builder can produce.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1001 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #870 of 1002 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 359 days after the earliest competitor.
- BitTorrent client written in Go without external dependencies · hn · 2026-02-28 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- spore · github · 2026-09-10 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- uttorent-desktop · github · 2026-11-06 · 479 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- http · github · 2026-11-01 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- JTorrent · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Altersend · hn · 2026-06-05 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- unstream-proxy · github · 2026-10-05 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- cawget · github · 2026-11-04 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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