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Downloading Torrent Made Easy By Converting it to Executable

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

Apr
21
2008

When I first heard about BitTorrent, I immediately went to the official BitTorrent website to try to understand how it works. Somehow it seems a little complicated compared to Peer-2-Peer. P2P such as limewire is way easier because all I need is a client, search for what I am looking for and then download. Everything is done from the P2P client.

As for Torrent, I need to find out which bittorrent client suits me the best, what are the tracker sites I can use to search, what are seeders, peers, leechers, and finally how to optimize the bittorrent client in order to obtain the best download speed. Bittorrent is already very popular but there are still people asking me how it works.

Yesterday one of my friend who isn’t so good in computers wanted to download OpenOffice but he somehow he wasn’t able to download from the direct link. Another alternative to download OpenOffice is by using BitTorrent but the problem is he has never used BitTorrent. Instead of complicating him more, here is how I easily got him downloading OpenOffice using BitTorrent.


Torrent2Exe is a free web based service that can convert a .torrent file into an executable file. You usually have to install a client on your PC to download files shared with BitTorrent. However, you’ll do perfectly well without the client if you use Torrent2exe. What I did for my friend was I converted the OpenOffice.torrent file into an executable file and send it to him. He then runs it and it will automatically start downloading. How simple is that? If you still don’t get it, see the steps below.

1. I go to OpenOffice.org to download the OOo_2.4.0_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe.torrent file.

2. I then upload the OOo_2.4.0_Win32Intel_install_en-US.exe.torrent file to Torrent2exe to have it converted to an executable file. The converted executable filename becomes t2e.exe

Convert Torrent to EXE

3. I send the t2e.exe to my friend and he runs it.

4. OpenOffice starts downloading.

Easily download torrent

You can either upload the .torrent file from your computer or specify the URL of the torrent file to have it converted to executable. I found a small problem on the URL function. When the URL of the torrent file contains reserved or excluded characters such as ] [ = ? & < > etc, it will show a 404 Not Found error when it tries to convert the torrent file to exe. When this happens, you'll need to manually change the escape sequence to normal characters.

For example, Little_Voice_%5B2007%5D.torrent. You will need to replace the %5B and %5D to [ and ] respectively. You can refer to the chart below to know which escape sequence is for which character.
decode escape sequence

Very simple isn’t it? If you have a website or blog and you offer downloads via torrent, you can provide both torrent file and executable file for you visitor’s convenient. I am sure basic computer users would appreciate it.

[ Visit Torrent2Exe ]


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    • Houhou

      Thanks Raymond, this is quite a useful service! You seem to be able to find the most interesting things.

    • http://atomicsolarstorm.wordpress.com Solaris

      Thanks Raymond for sharing the info.
      :mrgreen:

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      Thanks guys.

    • Neo

      Whoa,… this is too cool…Torrents are not allowed in my place, but with this function, this is sort of a torrent- but- not-torrent…Old wine in a new bottle.

      thanks Raymond.

      You Rock as ever…

      Love

      Neo

    • Ram

      I was wondering if this supports proxy?

      Thanks for the info

      eBRo

    • Jeunas

      Brainfart?

      “…wanted to download _OpenOffice_ but he somehow he wasn’t able to download from the direct link. Another alternative to download _Fedora_ is by…”

      I think Fedora is a Linux distro :D

    • nick

      Thanks Raymond, this is amazing!
      :)

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      Oops. I meant OpenOffice, not fedora :P

      I am not sure if this works on proxy or not. If you’re able to test, please do let me know.

    • anupam malik

      this technology is far better than torrent software bcz i m getting very good speed with this method………thanx bro…

    • Mahmoud Musallam

      I never tried to use BitTorrent , but now it\’s very easy

      Thnx Rymond

    • mohit

      gr8 man

    • Deacon Frost

      Wow! This is a very useful website you found Raymond! I can even use it to download movies. :-D It’s really easy to use. Love it! Thanks Raymond!! :-D

    • AmeyJah

      Hey, thanks foruseful post. I fount that I am not able to download stuff from torrent blocked networks like college.

      But one question, how to seed it after you download the file fully.

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      If you want to seed, just leave the window open.

    • whoami

      This is very useful raymond, especially to those who’re still new in P2P world. Thanks

    • lloyd

      simply the BEST ….THANKS MAN…..

    • man12529

      thanks for the info… wonder wat port it is using.

    • DdotSpitz

      Amazingly, it is a lot more difficult for me to use this site then my Bit Che (torrent search-engine application) / Azureus combination. I just type in what I want in the search bar in Bit Che, and it gives me a list of torrents from which I pick and double-click one that has at least a share ratio of 1 and a reasonable amount of seeders. It automatically opens up Azureus and starts downloading.

    • Adam

      One of the biggest issues with torrents is how slow they are. How is the speed using this versus a torrent on your system? I know some torrent networks reward seeds with better download speeds and a service like this will not seed.

      I’d like more information on the relative download speeds. This may be a great alternative!

    • http://www.raymond.cc/ Raymond

      Converting torrent to exe is mainly for convenience, and not performance.

    • exulter

      i always use torrent to download movies, series n anime.. the speed quite slow especiali the old torrent.. however using this program the speed is very2 good.. i got 40-70kb/s (fast compared torrent between 10-30kb/s)..

      thanks ray for introduce this to us.. *thumbs up*

      [eXu|TeR]

    • irjan

      Thanks Ray!!!
      It\’s the simple way to access the torrent file. But…. what about the downloading speed?

    • http://torrent2exe.com/ Torrent2exe Team

      Hello, Raymond.

      Thank you for the description of the problem with non-alphanumeric symbols in URL. We have fixed it.

    • Esente

      One thing I concern about using this service is privacy. It\’s an executable file, and .exe file. They can put any kind of codes that can track your usage, the files you downloaded, and God knows where those information will end up with.

      Until someone confirm the safety, I\’ll stay away from it.

      But thanks for letting me know about this service!

    • SUNIL

      hI RAY,
      WILL YOU PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO INCREASE WINDOWS PARTITION SIZE WITHOUT DATA LOSS

    • CARL MUSSI

      Please can you help i have used bittorrent i have downloaded a software program using bit torrent the file i have is alot bigger than the retail version and i can not get it to open on my computer where can i get some advice

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