Hydra is a game launcher with its own embedded bittorrent client and a self-managed repack scraper.
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The launcher is written in TypeScript (Electron) and Python, which handles the torrenting system by using libtorrent.
Follow the steps below to install:
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git clone https://github.com/your_username/hydra
Ensure you have Node.js installed on your machine. If not, download and install it from nodejs.org.
Yarn is a package manager for Node.js. If you haven't installed Yarn yet, you can do so by following the instructions on yarnpkg.com.
Navigate to the project directory and install the Node dependencies using Yarn:
cd hydra
yarn
Ensure you have Python 3.9 installed on your machine. You can download and install it from python.org.
Install the required Python dependencies using pip:
pip install -r requirements.txt
You'll need an SteamGridDB API Key in order to fetch the game icons on installation. If you want to have onlinefix as a repacker you'll need to add your credentials to the .env
Once you have it, you can copy or rename the .env.example
file to .env
and put it onSTEAMGRIDDB_API_KEY
, ONLINEFIX_USERNAME
, ONLINEFIX_PASSWORD
.
Once you've got all things set up, you can run the following command to start both the Electron process and the bittorrent client:
yarn dev
Build the bittorrent client by using this command:
python torrent-client/setup.py build
Build the Electron application by using this command:
On Windows:
yarn build:win
On Linux:
yarn build:linux
Hydra is licensed under the MIT License.