Tribler / tribler

Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery
https://www.tribler.org
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Allow for downloading metadata then stopping #7540

Open Scripter17 opened 1 year ago

Scripter17 commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I frequently use a DHT crawler called BTDigg to find torrents. Often the torrents can be 100+GB when all I want is a single 200MB video. Often the torrents are also old with few (if any) seeders that are only online once in a while. A few days ago I left an 18GB torrent downloading just so I can get the metadata then choose which files to download. Instead I woke up to it being 70% downloaded

Describe the solution you'd like In addition to the start/stop button for torrents, add a button to wait for metadata then stop the torrent

Describe alternatives you've considered Keeping Tribler open on my second monitor, keeping an eye on it, and pausing the torrents when I go to bed. This is obviously more of a pain than it needs to be and doesn't work well if the only seeder is on the other side of the world (time zones)

Alternatively Tribler could keep trying to find the metadata for stopped torrents, but that seems unintuitive and people generally want the stop button to mean stop

Additional context Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

xoriole commented 1 year ago

@Scripter17 Thank you for the feature request.

It is already possible to select the files to download when starting a download on Tribler. In the screenshot below, I selected only one file to download.

Screenshot 2023-07-11 at 08 55 48
Scripter17 commented 1 year ago

I should've clarified: That's only possible when someone who has the metadata is online and the torrent/magnet link contains the metadata

BTDigg, unfortunately, only has magnet links without that metadata