Get Direct Links for torrents through Imageshack.us

Written by Aravind Jose T.  |  under Internet, Reviews & Tips, Tutorials
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This needs attention. Imageshack.us, the leader in image hosting, today added a great new feature to their ‘already-nice’ feature-set: “Online Torrenting”.

What Is It?

It’s a cutting-edge technology by which you can download the contents of a torrent file to imageshack.us’s clustered servers and download it to your computer through direct links.

That means, you literally need no torrent clients or p2p clients running in the background, hogging your resources. Just add the torrent file at imageshack and let them do the torrenting for you. And, once it’s finished you can download the files as direct links. Sounds great, isn’t it !!!

Specs

You get 15GB Storage Space & 15GB Bandwidth

How To?

  1. The service is still in the early BETA and requires you to register for an account at imageshack.us
  2. After Registering, LogIn and Go to Imageshack Torrents’ Home.
  3. You can either upload a .torrent file from your computer or else provide the URL to the .torrent file. Click GO
  4. That’s it. Now, Imageshack starts torrenting for you and you may shut the computer and have a good night’s sleep.
    Nothing is downloaded to your computer, NOW.
  5. When you check back, it might be finished or else you can see the status of the given torrent download.
  6. In the torrents’ homepage, you get to control torrenting, like, Start, Stop, Download, Delete etc. (screenshot below)
  7. Clicking on “Download” will take you to a file listing page. (screenshot below)
  8. If you are downloading a torrent with many sub-files, you can download the individual files in the order of finishing. That means, if your torrent contains 50 files and only 25 of them are finished at the time you check, you can download those 25 files individually while the torrenting proceeds in the background.

You might’ve used BitLet, which allow you to download the torrent files to your computer without a torrent client. But, Imageshack has gone one more step ahead, and downloads it to their servers to provide you with DIRECT LINKS.

Screenshots

Showing Status of torrents


(This one facilitates HTTP downloading of Torrents!!)
What do you think about this cool, new service?