instant

A WebTorrent client in your browser, à la instant.io. Paste a magnet / infohash, drop a .torrent file, or seed any file to get a shareable magnet — files stream/render inline (video, audio, images, PDF) and download. One self-contained HTML file, no build, no server, no pod.

How it works

• Loads webtorrent from a CDN and runs a client entirely in the page.
• Add a magnet/infohash/.torrent → downloads over WebRTC; media files render inline, everything has a download link; live progress / peers / speed.
• Seed a file → it announces over wss trackers and shows a magnet to share; whoever opens it in instant (or any WebTorrent client) fetches it peer-to-peer.

The honest caveat

WebTorrent only talks to WebRTC / wss-tracker peers — other browsers and hybrid seeders. It can't reach plain TCP/UDP BitTorrent peers from a browser. So it works when web peers are around (WebTorrent-seeded content) — which is exactly why seeding is built in: seed to each other and it just works. It's a general P2P transfer tool (same tech as webtorrent.io).

Notes

• Magnet library — magnets you add or seed are saved (localStorage, and synced to /private/instant/library.jsonld on your pod when signed in), shown as "Saved magnets" you can re-load on any device with one click. The torrenting itself stays pure client; only the magnet list touches the pod.
• Uses default wss trackers (openwebtorrent / btorrent / webtorrent.dev).

Run

Static — open index.html, or install via the store to /public/apps/instant/.

AGPL-3.0-only.