How To Download Torrent Magnet Links

BitTorrent and Magnet Links

1. How To Download Magnet Links Without Torrent Client
2. Pirate Bay
3. Torrent Download

Magnet Links is a technology which is going to be used extensively in the future, some sites now provide Magnet Link alongside.torrent file. The.torrent file identifies a file by location or name, the Magnet Link on the other hand identifies a file by the content; in layman's term, by the content's hast value. Magnet links are basically a connection between your torrent downloader client and the seeders. A torrent file is just a medium for that. So it doesn't matter if you download a torrent file or use magnet links to download files of it, BOTH ARE SAME. The Pirate Bay has removed torrent file links of the torrents being shared by more than 10 people. However, there are a few ways to download the actual torrent links instead of magnet links. However, there are a few ways to download the actual torrent links instead of magnet links.

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol that has become the preferred method for distributing Linux ISO images and other large data sets. Estimates suggest that BitTorrent was responsible for 35% of all Internet traffic in November 2004, and, depending on geographic location, from 43% to 70% of regional traffic by February 2009.
There is quite a bit of BitTorrent-specific terminology, see the list on Wikipedia for a glossary. A key concept is the torrent metadata file which describes the torrent itself. This file is a few tens of kilobytes in size, and describes the torrent and how to find it. It begins with viewable ASCII or UTF-8 text, and then switches to non-ASCII. Here is an example:

Do keep in mind that while BitTorrent is an efficient method for obtaining data, there is no guarantee that it is the data that you were looking for! If you are planning to install the operating system supposedly contained in the ISO image, verify the cryptographic hash of resulting download against the result from a trusted source.

A cryptographic hash is the result of a mathematical calculation on any piece of data. There are several hash functions available, MD5 is rather old and SHA-1 is a minimally acceptable one for security purposes. The output of a hash is a string of bits of fixed length, 160 bits for SHA-1, and is almost always represented in base 16 or hexadecimal. The hash value will look something like this: 7ad57cadae955bd04019389d4b9c1dcb. See my page about cryptographic hash functions for far more.

A torrent file like the above specifies its torrent tracker, a URL your BitTorrent client can use to find other peers currently holding needed pieces of the file. Other peers can also discover the pieces that you already have and which they need.

Of course, if other peers can do that, so can agents of the entertainment industry. So, magnet links were devised. They describe a file by its content, not its location. Put another way, a magnet link does not tell you where to find a file, but how to tell if it's the file you're looking for, based on its cryptographic hash.

A side effect of switching from torrent files to magnet links is a drastic reduction in the size of a site like The Pirate Bay. Typical torrent files are a few tens of thousands of bytes, while a typical magnet link is about 250 bytes.

Unlike torrent files, magnet links are not only small but they are also plaintext, meaning that they can be included in e-mail messages.

Below is an example magnet link. Notice that this is one very long line.

The first block is the most important as it specifies exactly what we're looking for:
urn:btih:be3a502bb8e06d538ed51024f4e0b125942420d2
The btih or BitTorrent Info Hash is the SHA1 hash encoded in base 16. We're looking for a file with SHA1 hash of 0xbe3a502bb8e06d538ed51024f4e0b125942420d2. Some BitTorrent clients use other hash values.

• sha1 means a Base32 encoded SHA1 hash.
• tth means a Tiger Tree Hash.
• bitprint means a SHA1 hash, a period, and a TTH hash.
• ed2k is used by eDonkey2000.

The dn field is the 'display name' that the client will show to the user. What is the thing being downloaded?

The tr fields are the address trackers. A distributed hash table could be used instead of trackers. Notice that the : and / characters are represented by ASCII codes %3A and %2F respectively, so the above magnet file specifies these four tracker URLs:

• udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80
• udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80
• udp://tracker.istole.it:6969
• udp://tracker.ccc.de:80

Let's say you search for Ubuntu at The Pirate Bay. Here is an example of the first few matches.

Notice that the first two have both small red and white magnet icons and green arrows pointing down. These have both magnet links and torrent files. However, torrent files are on the way out at The Pirate Bay and other torrent indexing sites!

Most of the indexed torrents will be like the third and fourth in the list, with nothing but magnet links.

We have clicked on the first one in the list. Of course, the big green 'Download' buttons do nothing of the sort, they just unleash pop-up ads. But notice the two smaller green pieces of text.

The one with the magnet icon saying 'Get This Torrent' will take you to the magnet link.

The rapidly disappearing link 'Get Torrent File' with the green download double arrow would get you the torrent file.

Most indexed torrents are like this one, the third in the search list. Notice that it offers nothing but a magnet link.

The note below the magnet file link says that you can fix the problem with magnet links by upgrading your torrent client. That's just a come-on that tries to get you to download a Windows executable file with a claim that it installs a replacement browser. A hex dump of that executable shows that it meddles with the Windows registry.

You could convert the magnet link to a torrent file with a site like magnet2torrent.com or, possibly, magnet2torrent.me.

How Can I Use Magnet Links with Firefox and Chrome?

If you simply click on the magnet link with Firefox or Chrome, you get an error. Firefox says:

The address wasn't understood. Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (magnet) isn't associated with any program. · You might need to install other software to open this address.

First, decide which BitTorrent client tool you plan to use. I prefer KTorrent, although rtorrent can be very useful as it only requires a command-line interface.

Get your BitTorrent client installed, and find the full path to its location. Expect something like what we see here, in either /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.

Make sure you have the gconftool-2 program installed. If not, it's in the Gconf2 package on typical Linux distributions, and in the gconf2 package on OpenBSD.

Now, run these three commands as your ordinary user account, changing /usr/bin/ktorrent as appropriate to suit your preference as to the client and its full path. Do this as your ordinary user account and not as root:

Close your browser, restart it, and now magnet links should be understood!

Are you blocked by some network restriction that prevents downloads from torrent / p2p networks, or your browsing cheat simple doesn't download from Torrent, or perhaps you need a reliable server to download torrents on your behalf for you? then look no further, here are list of some of the 7 (Magnet to direct link) best Torrent to direct download sites with superb service (access to free service was also considered in the sorting).

7. ByteBX

• Allows streaming of cached / uploaded files
• user friendly interface
• allows navigation of cached torrent
• also a cloud storage for uploading your files

• Trial / freee use is limited to only 100mb file

6. putdrive

Very attractive premium plans, large download host support, allows connection of other cloud accounts as drives, supports downloading from file hosting sites, torrent and some video sharing sites to your drive (either your putdrive storage or any of your connected drives). also supports conversion of media files.

Strengths:

• Reasonable pricing for premium plans
• Supports a large host of file sharing sites
• Supports a couple of coud storage in addition to its own

• Not the simplest interface, we've definitely seen more direct intrefaces ,
• Negligible existence of a free service

5. FilesLoop

• Good queuing system for downloads (doesn't bounce links if your channel is full, it just queues them)
• useful search engine
• Wide range of file hosting site support

• Short trial period
• Search result can get very clumsy

filesloop (good queuing system for torrents and magnets, doesn't just bounce ur link when channel is full, it allows u start when need / trial period too short)

4. Bitport

A very decent looking torrent to download site, not the most friendly interface for a direct download / torrent caching site. Good trial service, you can download as zip or navigate the directory within your cached torrent; also supports video thumbnail and preview feature, a detailed download queuing and management screen ('Transfers'). The presence of a converter also makes it the best I have seen so far for media related downloads.
Strengths:

• Good media preview features
• Can navigate cached torrent folder or download as zip
• Good queuing and transfer manager
• Free feature allows download of Torrent larger than trial limit of others

• Not the simplest interface we've seen so far
• Free trial has a limited cloud space (2 GB)
• Free trial as a 100 MB per hour caching policy (very unfair)

3: Filestream

• Simple and straight forward interface
• allows navigation of downloaded folders for downloading of single files off the lot
• allows zipping of files before download
• Free service gives you quite a bit of their reliable service, albeit with a 1gb download limit
• Gives you a choice for either downloading via SSL, or no SSL.

• No video preview
• If you're looking to use the free service, have in mind it won't cache files above 1 GB.
• Chiko robot fills my email :(

2: Torrent2DDL

A good free service, very good free service; but performs caching only unto to file sharing sites, as at the time of writing, uptobox and 1fichier are still the only two, supported. They formerly had an additional feature 'debrid' button, which generates premium links using rapidgator. Their service is totally free.
Strengths:

• Free service
• No size limitation
• Debrid feature (very fast links for free)
• You can use your uptobox / 1fichier premium user profile to power the speed of your download

How To Download Magnet Links Without Torrent Client

Weakness:

• No cloud storage service, aside from conversation of torrents to the supported share sites
• All downloads are zipped, you can't navigate withing the zip to download only the needed file
• No video preview or convert feature (not reall an important feature, even in the others)

1: ZBIGZ

Well, this is certainly the most popular site of the lot, effortlessly easy service, simple and user-friendly interface, if you need to get the job done without wasting too much time navigating unneeded structures, this is the best of them all, It doubles up as a cloud storage and direct - download system.

Pirate Bay

Strengths:

• HTTPS for secure communication
• Supports Magnet links and Torrent files
• Also serves as Cloud Storage.
• Very fast download speed (Premium)
• Supports compression of folders, and navigation of downloaded torrent folder.
• Compressed file link supports resume
• Premium caching speed is insanely FAST.
• Stream your media directly

Torrent Download

• Free / Trial service is very poor (especially caching speed),
• Free / Trial permits only 1024 mb ~ 1GB
• Free / Trial service has a limit of only 2 files in storage
• Free / Trial won't cache when you are away from the site.