Magnetio

Magnetio is a minimal BitTorrent-based streaming and downloading client written in C.
It focuses on clean architecture, low-level socket programming, and protocol-level implementation of the BitTorrent ecosystem.

Inspired by Stremio, but built from scratch for systems-level learning and control.

Overview

Magnetio is designed in layers:

• utils/ → Parsing, hashing, logging

• net/ → Raw sockets, HTTP, event loop

• core/ → Torrent engine (trackers, peers, pieces)

• gui/ → GTK4 interface and playback

The torrent engine is independent from the GUI.

Features

• Stream video from magnet links

• Download media via BitTorrent

• Multi-peer support

• Event-driven networking

• Magnet search (planned)