WebTorrent is a free and open source streaming torrent client software for Linux, Windows and MacOS. Using this app you can play video and audio right away during download and no need to wait to finish downloading. It is written in JavaScript and released under MIT License. Brave already integrates WebTorrent into its Browser. It supports Stream videos to AirPlay, Chromecast, DLNA and you can open magnet links and torrent files.
How to Install WebTorrent on Ubuntu Linux
WebTorrent is available as a flatpak package file from flathub. First you need to install the latest version of flatpak and flathub on your system and restart it after the installation.
Install flatpak and flathub on Ubuntu
Now open the terminal command-line software using ctrl+alt+t keys and run below flatpak WebTorrent install command.
flatpak install flathub io.webtorrent.WebTorrent
And start WebTorrent app using this command.
flatpak run io.webtorrent.WebTorrent
And uninstall WebTorrent using this command.
sudo flatpak uninstall io.webtorrent.WebTorrent
That’s it.
