Magnet Links

[biduin]

Hello everyone!

Can you please help me?

1) How can I create magnet URI from existing (uploaded) torrent file?

2) How can I start downloading if I have Magnet URI but do not have *.torrent file?

I do know how to perform each of this actions in Win version of uT. But using Mac.... unfortunately.

Thank you in advance.

[matman302]

Bump, I would like to know how to do this on Mac as well!

[dcsimpson]

On a certain website that rhymes with piratebay there are magnet links that you are supposed to click on now. How exactly does that work on uTorrent?

How do I make it open in utorrent and it is any better than using a torrent?

[Ultima]

Magnet URIs basically tell clients to get the main part of the .torrent file (the info dictionary) from another peer over DHT. It's not necessarily better or worse -- it's just a different transferring model (no centralized location for getting the metainfo). It can take a bit longer to get the metainfo (as in the necessary part of the .torrent file) over DHT than it would take to get the .torrent file directly from some HTTP server, but that's the price you'll have for having decentralized, peer-to-peer .torrent file sharing.

After µTorrent gets the metainfo file over DHT, it behaves no differently than a regular .torrent file.

The only real user-facing issue currently with µTorrent's handling of magnet URIs (for the Windows version anyway -- I'm not sure how µTorrent Mac handles it) is that it doesn't actually ask the user where he/she wishes to save the torrent contents to on the drive -- it uses the default download location set in the preferences. The reason it doesn't ask immediately once the magnet URI is added is because µTorrent doesn't actually know anything about the torrent contents (name, size, or files) until it gets the metainfo, and (as mentioned above) the metainfo can take a bit of time to get. As such, if the user adds a magnet URI, steps away, and forgets that he/she needs to select a download directory once the metainfo file is actually received, the torrent would never proceed downloading until the user gets back, which may not be what the user expects.

[amau96]

Hi, I don't manage to download torrent with magnet, is utorrent for mac compatible with magnet?

I have try to copy the link and open it with utorrent, but nothing start.

thank to any one who can help me

[NoOneButMe]

Merged magnet URI topics into one thread.

[SpudsBM]

i have the same problem

[FrostyCee]

As such, if the user adds a magnet URI, steps away, and forgets that he/she needs to select a download directory once the metainfo file is actually received, the torrent would never proceed downloading until the user gets back, which may not be what the user expects.

That would be exactly what I expect, retrieve the meta info, then ask me where to save the files.

Perhaps an option to allow/disallow the save dialog with default set to off would do the trick. Or instead of saying "Downloading" how about making it say "Retrieving Meta Info" for the download's status.

As is, it makes me feel like I'm using eMule or something, not uTorrent. I remember when uTorrent came out with the feature to select or de-select files in a torrent. That was a huge plus that made a lot of people start using it & now it kind of feels like the feature is fading away. I know I can use the files tab to choose which files to download & skip, but this is much more cumbersome, and has done nothing but confuse other users I know...

[Ultima]

No one said anything about the dialog going away, or that the behavior wouldn't be changed. I'd already discussed this issue with the devs from very early on when magnet URI support was first implemented -- there was simply not much impetus to come up with a better solution at the time, so it was just left as is.

[sireddie]

[NoOneButMe]

Wrong OS.

[xlepws]

Ultima wrote:

if the user adds a magnet URI, steps away, and forgets that he/she needs to select a download directory once the metainfo file is actually received, the torrent would never proceed downloading until the user gets back, which may not be what the user expects.

That's just what we would need! It's a real mess to have to store all files in one folder!

[mancini]

the people are saying they have problems on MAC you damn retards , not windows , utorrent for mac has no magnet URI association preference or whatnot

utorrent developers stop slacking and add the magnet url handler for OSX , ill even tell you how to do it http://stackoverflow.com/questions/49510/how-do-you-set-your-cocoa-application-as-the-default-web-browser

1) Add the URL schemes your app can handle to your application's info.plist file

To add support for magnet: you'd need to add the following to your application's info.plist file. This tells the OS that your application is capable of handling MAGNET URLs.

<key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>

<array>

<dict>

<key>CFBundleURLName</key>

<string>magnet URL</string>

<key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>

<array>

<string>magnet</string>

</array>

</dict>

</array>

2) Write an URL handler method

This method will be called by the OS when it wants to use your application to open a URL. It doesn't matter which object you add this method to, that'll be explicitly passed to the Event Manager in the next step. The URL handler method should look something like this:

- (void)getUrl:(NSAppleEventDescriptor *)event

withReplyEvent:(NSAppleEventDescriptor *)replyEvent

{

// Get the URL

NSString *urlStr = [[event paramDescriptorForKeyword:keyDirectObject]

stringValue];

//TODO: Your custom URL handling code here

}

3) Register the URL handler method

Next, tell the event manager which object and method to call when it wants to use your app to load an URL. In the code here I'm passed self as the event handler, assuming that we're calling setEventHandler from the same object that defines the getUrl:withReplyEvent: method.

You should add this code somewhere in your application's initialisation code.

NSAppleEventManager *em = [NSAppleEventManager sharedAppleEventManager];

[em

setEventHandler:self

andSelector:@selector(getUrl:withReplyEvent:)

forEventClass:kInternetEventClass

andEventID:kAEGetURL];

Some applications, including early versions of Adobe AIR, use the alternative WWW!/OURL AppleEvent to request that an application opens URLs, so to be compatible with those applications you should also add the following:

[em

setEventHandler:self

andSelector:@selector(getUrl:withReplyEvent:)

forEventClass:'WWW!'

andEventID:'OURL'];

4) Set your app as the default browser

Everything we've done so far as told the OS that your application is a browser, now we need to make it the default browser.

We've got to use the Launch Services API to do this. In this case we're setting our app to be the default role handler for HTTP and HTTPS links:

NSString *bundleID = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundleIdentifier];

OSStatus httpResult = LSSetDefaultHandlerForURLScheme((CFStringRef)@"http", (CFStringRef)bundleID);

OSStatus httpsResult = LSSetDefaultHandlerForURLScheme((CFStringRef)@"https", (CFStringRef)bundleID);

//TODO: Check httpResult and httpsResult for errors

(It's probably best to ask the user's permission before changing their default browser.)

Custom URL schemes

It's worth noting that you can also use these same steps to handle your own custom URL schemes. If you're creating a custom URL scheme it's a good idea to base it on your app's bundle identifier to avoid clashes with other apps. So if your bundle ID is com.example.MyApp you should consider using x-com-example-myapp:// URLs.

[noguru]

Hello

very difficult for me, sorry,if I had understand right, in few words, utorrent for mac doesn't support magnet links, dosen't it? Well, I think i'm going to try vuze.

noguru

[luhmann]

It is hard not to feel that uTorrent for OS X is neglected. Many bugs still persist after all this time, and some key features are still missing...

[amau96]

Is someone from the team can say a word about it? or an ETA?

[NoOneButMe]

@mancini: While we all appreciate you being able to paste random, irrelevant sample code from stackoverflow, its really not needed. Plus, its an absolutely horrible idea for µTorrent to try and be the main web browser for the system. As the sample code you found from google would do.

@luhmann: Features take a lot of time to develop. µTorrent for windows has been around for *years*. µTorrent for mac? not nearly as long.

@amau96: When its ready? We don't do ETA's.

[amau96]

Ok no ETA, but without magnet link for mac and with the recent news about TPB and mininova, I think that magnet link should be your first priority.

Without giving us any ETA, can you at least tell us if you are currently working on it?

[Weaselboy]

Both TPB and Mininova still supple the .torrent files that work just fine, even without a tracker. The .torrent file provides the hash info just like a magnet link, so there should be no issue if your client does not support magnet links.

[macxbo]

March 2012 still not possible to download magnet links.

How many more years???

[DEAncientNaga]

Final answer for Mac (magnet links on uTorrent)

Latest version of uTorrent on Mac can now accept magnet links such as torrents in TPB.

Why you can't see the files you are going to download?

Just select a location and it will download all things in the torrent.

I know, you see something blank, just trust me and press download.

You never know if you didn't try.

You guys should read this 2 years ago, but you didn't

As such, if the user adds a magnet URI, steps away, and forgets that he/she needs to select a download directory once the metainfo file is actually received, the torrent would never proceed downloading until the user gets back, which may not be what the user expects.

After µTorrent gets the metainfo file over DHT, it behaves no differently than a regular .torrent file.

It's your mistake that made you can't download magnet torrents.

Please DO NOT bump this post anymore and make further confuses.

Thank you.

[jackpipe]

Oh ya, good job adding the magnet association to Mac.

Now how do I remove it?

I don't want the association, as I still want to download .torrent files.

Only, there's no way to choose whether uTorrent installs the association.

And there's no way to delete the association.

Even if you scrub uTorrent from your system, the association remains.