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by Fastidious 3863 days ago
Please excuse my ignorance. Is Node required for this to work?
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Nope! Just plain JS.
I have another question. Is it possible to write this in Python?
You can use a native webrtc library in Python to implement the webtorrent protocol. Half the goal of the project is that desktop torrent clients can eventually support it through webrtc helper libraries so they can act as hybrid clients that can seed to both browser and native participants.