LeechCraft
LeechCraft is a free open source cross-platform modular internet-client. LeechCraft allows to browse the web, read RSS/Atom feeds, download files via BitTorrent, FTP, HTTP, automatically download, play or stream podcasts (and other media files) and much more.
LeechCraft is a mod.
Features
- Support for scripting
- Feed Reader
- Modular System
- Support for FTP
- Based on Webkit engine
- Integrated Chat
LeechCraft News & Activities
Recent activities
LeechCraft information
Developed by
0xd34df00dLicensing
Open Source and Free product.Alternatives
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- English
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News & Books, File Sharing, Office & Productivity, Development, Web Browsers
What is LeechCraft?
LeechCraft is a free open source cross-platform modular internet-client. LeechCraft allows to browse the web, read RSS/Atom feeds, download files via BitTorrent, FTP, HTTP, automatically download, play or stream podcasts (and other media files) and much more.
LeechCraft is a modular system, and by installing different modules you can customize the feature set.
Main features: — Full-featured web-browser with support for all major web-standards. — Support for common feed formats — RSS 0.92/0.93, RSS 1.0 (RDF), RSS 2.0, Atom 0.3, Atom 1.0 with extensions like MediaRSS for enhanced media experience or GeoRSS for now-popular geolocation. — Extensive support for Broadcatching and podcasts and their automatic retrieval. — Efficient and fast BitTorrent client with full support for the BitTorrent protocol and all its widespread extensions and magnet links which allows you to download torrents even faster. — The "Summary" tab that displays all your downloads, updates and statuses (like new articles in news feeds) and allows you to perform search queries. — Integrated media player. — Scripting support in Python or JavaScript. — Application-wide tags system, ability to tag everything from BitTorrent files to feeds in Aggregator to bookmarks in web browser.
Comments and Reviews
Last windows update 2014. Author admits it is likely to be buggy and that the focus was more on Linux. This seems to be more of a torrent downloader than a browser. No msi installer seen.
I'm what can be considered a linux power user, as my job is being a linux sysadmin. Usually I deal with software that is not meant to be run/configured by end users, which are MUCH simpler to configure and much more well documented than this LeechCraft. It just present you with a screen with no hints to how to add plugins, and its website includes little to no documentation. Unless your distribution ships it with sane defaults, I really don't recomend Leechcraft, as powerful as it may seen.