One useful parameter that has not been mentioned yet is the as= parameter which contains encrypted information about a download source.

Detailed information about additional Magnet Link parameters are listed on Wikipedia. The full magnet link would look like this magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5dee65101db281ac9c46344cd6b175cdcad53426&dn=download.

?xt=urn:btih: (Defines a Bittorrent Info Hash, the Edonkey identifier would for instance look like this xt=urn:ed2k:).

magnet: (This is the magnet link identifier).Magnet links can be distributed by email, messaging and other forms of communication but are most often found on the torrent sites that usually offer both torrent and magnet links to their users. A magnet link therefore is theoretically all that is needed to download files from other peers in the Bittorrent network. It is a server-less way of retrieving the right information to start downloading the requested files. The user needs a Bittorrent client like uTorrent or qBittorent, a torrent file that is usually downloaded from a Bittorrent server which functions as a tracker and torrent provider and of course peers that seed the torrent or download it as well.Ī Bittorrent magnet link has all the information needed to start downloading the files from peers directly. A click on the magnet link might add it to the torrent client that is used on the system as well provided that it supports magnet link and is the program mapped to this type of link on the device.Ī closer look at the standard process of downloading files via torrents reveals several factors and parties that are necessary for this.

Torrent to magnet