Get started
Install OrbTorrent, add your first download, and bring your downloads over from Transmission or qBittorrent.
OrbTorrent Docs
Everything about OrbTorrent.
How to download with it, keep your downloads on your VPN and fix what goes wrong, and how to build extensions that check every download.
Use OrbTorrent
Section titled “Use OrbTorrent”Everyday use
The menu bar, the library window, each download’s details, and choosing files and the order they download in.
Network and privacy
Download only through a VPN, keep your VPN’s forwarded port in step, and find more peers for slow downloads.
Help
Troubleshooting for the usual problems, every setting and shortcut, and how to report a problem.
Build extensions
Section titled “Build extensions”Extensions are TypeScript. They check a download before it starts, and can hold it until you decide, or act on it once it finishes. They run in a sandbox, and reach only the files and sites they list.
Your first extensionMake one from a template, test it, and run it on one of your downloads in about ten minutes.
Build with a coding agentSay what it should do, and Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Gemini CLI writes it, tests it and tries it.
API referencefetch, files, storage, progress, settings and everything else @orbtorrent/api provides.
The orb commandEvery orb command and option, its JSON output, and what it needs from OrbTorrent.
For language models
Section titled “For language models”Every page here is also plain Markdown, at its address plus .md, and has a Copy page button under its title. llms.txt lists the whole site, and llms-full.txt holds all of these docs in one file. Coding agents building an extension can read just the extension docs.