Flatsonar

WebTorrent

by Feross Aboukhadijeh

Streaming torrent app

Broad permissions Flathub reviewed GPL-3.0+ v0.24
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About

WebTorrent Desktop is for streaming torrents. Whether it's video from the Internet Archive, music from Creative Commons, or audiobooks from Librivox, you can play it right away. You don't have to wait for it to finish downloading.

Permissions

1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • network
    --share=network
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to your download folder
    --filesystem=xdg-download
  • access to /tmp
    --filesystem=/tmp
  • notifications
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications

Who publishes this

On Flathub: the manifest was reviewed and built on Flathub's infrastructure, but the developer has not verified ownership of the app id.

  • installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source
    source:prebuilt
  • on Flathub: manifest reviewed and built by Flathub; the developer has not verified the app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

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