Torrent Swapper

Screenshot of Torrent Swapper
Developer(s)	John Freemonth
Stable release	1.0  (2006-8-9; 3 years ago) [+/−]
Written in	Python
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	BitTorrent client
Website	bit-torrent.sf.net

Torrent Swapper is a free software (MIT License) BitTorrent client. The program is used to download files using Peer-To-Peer technology, in this case using the Bittorrent protocol. Their sourceforge home page states:

Lightweight python based 4th. generation bittorrent client with social networking, recommendation, tag-based navigation, moderation, and real-time streaming based on the Tribler BitTorrent client (www.tribler.org).

Its family tree stems ultimately from the Python-based original BitTorrent client (mainline <v6) by Bram Cohen, via Tribler, ABC and BitTornado. Like its ancestors, Torrent Swapper is also written in Python, making it platform independent. It is available as an executable for Microsoft Windows. Torrent Swapper is comparable to Vuze, which is Java-based, but boasts some unique features like Amazon-like recommendations to get interesting files, doubling the download speed by using the upload capacity of friends, real-time P2P file sharing with P2P video streaming, and showing the locations of seeders / leechers of the same content with city-level accuracy on a world map.

[edit] See also

• Comparison of BitTorrent software

[edit] External links

• Torrent Swapper
• Tribler Social BitTorrent client

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