Magnet Player
Stream torrents directly in the browser. Paste a magnet link and watch — peer-to-peer over WebRTC, with nothing to install.
- Year
- 2016 – 2026
- Topics
- Web tools
- Stack
- JavaScript, WebTorrent, Jekyll
Magnet Player is a site where anyone can stream torrents directly from their browser. It uses WebTorrent — the first torrent client that works in the browser — which in turn uses WebRTC for true peer-to-peer transport. No plugin, extension, or installation required.
The catch
In the browser, WebTorrent can only download torrents seeded by a WebRTC-capable client. Most people use native clients that speak TCP/uTP instead, so not every torrent works — yet. More clients support WebTorrent every year, including Vuze, Brave, and clients built on libtorrent.
It is my most-starred repository, and I still maintain it a decade later.
