Manage Your BitTorrent Downloads on Facebook

Written by Ernesto on May 22, 2008 

A recently launched Facebook application for uTorrent makes it easy to manage your torrents when you’re away from your desktop computer. In addition, the application can also search your favorite BitTorrent sites from Facebook, and allows you to add new torrents remotely.

bittorrent facebookThe Facebook application uses uTorrent’s WebUI. The WebUI makes it possible to interact with and control uTorrent over the Internet. This opened up a world of possibilities for creative uTorrent users to build custom add-ons, and the Facebook app is one of them.

Previously, we have reported on other WebUI tools, such as uTorrent widgets, a mobile version of uTorrent, and even an iPhone compatible WebUI. The Facebook application for uTorrent is another example of how the WebUI can be used to integrate uTorrent into other applications.

The uFacebook home page lists all the torrents that are loaded in uTorrent, including statistics such as the current upload and download speed of each file. Once the application is installed, you can remotely start, stop, delete, add, and even search torrents, no matter where you are. That is, if your PC is turned on with uTorrent running.

uFacebook is developed and maintained by the same people who run the BitTorrent meta-search engine Morrent. In addition to this app, the Morrent team has also developed a uTorrent WebUI for the iPhone, and a gadget for the Windows sidebar.

If you want to give it a try, make sure you have enabled the WebUI. To do so, go to Options –> Preferences –> Advanced –> WebUI, and enter you details there. Detailed instructions on how to install the Facebook application, and how to configure the WebUI can be found here.

While you’re at it, feel free to join the TorrentFreak page on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter.

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1 May 22, 2008 at 23:23 by whatever

eventually we will hear facebook being sued/threatened by the anti-pirates…hmmmm???

2 May 22, 2008 at 23:31 by berg

nice

3 May 22, 2008 at 23:37 by nomber

How is this not just an iframe with the utorrent webui loading inside it?

4 May 22, 2008 at 23:40 by Idea 4 ya

Thats a really shite idea.

Advertise your personal business to the world…to a company that stores data indefinately.

Would you post all your emails up on facebook? Your s*x life? Your entire web history?

No..my 10 cents

5 May 22, 2008 at 23:55 by answer 4 ya

@4, is all your s*x life in your bittorrent downloads?. How sad…

6 May 22, 2008 at 23:59 by not a good idea

Facebook hidden beacons, tracking my name, my photo, AND my torrent history?. At first I thought this was a joke, but the world is made of cynicism…

7 May 23, 2008 at 00:31 by CyberChaos

Nice to see my icon there :D

http://cyberchaos05.deviantart.com/art/uTorrent-Icon-1-31067716

8 May 23, 2008 at 00:35 by fred

I have a question about webui’s

If you were in a (for example) university on a university lan, and you had your computer with a non password protected bittorrent webui for anyone on the lan to use ……

Would this give you plausible deniabilty if the riaa came knocking on your door? You could just say it was someone else using the webui, couldnt you?

Similarly, if you were at home and had an open wifi network and a webui, surely this would give you plausible deniability too.

9 May 23, 2008 at 00:45 by disatisfied customer

this is rediculas, not only do face book keep all your personal data, but your going to need utorrent open and running on your computer anyway for this to work - in addition you’ll need to enable it from within the UT gui anyway - so why the hell would you use this?

this is total bull crap!

10 May 23, 2008 at 02:11 by Norm

Great. Now facebook can tell if I’m downloading pirated music and movies.

This is bollocks, I say! If you know what’s good for you, don’t use facebook. Their privacy record is stained, and they have about as much credibility as a Bush Administration White House press secretary.

11 May 23, 2008 at 02:13 by Jazon Dion Fletcher

I think it’s a great idea for independent artists and musicians to show off their real time seeds and leeches; but other than that it’s a bad idea especially if your stealing music from the RIAA with it.

12 May 23, 2008 at 02:14 by encosion

My understanding is that Facebook does not store third party app info… That the user has installed the app: yes, but the data that app controls: no… Can you can set the privacy of the Facebook app so that only you can see it if you don’t want to broadcast your activity to your friends / networks… This is definitly very useful for some people - i.e. control your torrents on your PC from work…

13 May 23, 2008 at 02:49 by FreeTheScene

http://www.freethescene.net

14 May 23, 2008 at 02:50 by Konstantin

but you can do it without routing it through facebook. it’s just an unnecessary and nosy middleman.

15 May 23, 2008 at 02:51 by k3nt

Its neat but i refuse to go anywhere near facebook…

16 May 23, 2008 at 04:23 by Mr Roboto

http://www.MyBitTorrentSiteSucks.net

17 May 23, 2008 at 04:27 by wwwDOTezeeDOTse

Neat for when i am checking out free stuff like NIN’s music… not so neat when i am checking out the latest hottest flick like “Indiana Jones” (not that I or anyone here would ever do something like that… even though a decent copy is floating around on nearly every site.. bit(caugh)soup.org … ilove(caugh)torrents.com (caugh…caugh) damn; must be something in the air for me to be caughing so much)…
The question on everyones mind right now is… whats the security like on this thing? can things be private? (i.e just me controlling things from afar)

Things are pretty risky as is without adding an extra “middle men” imho… but thats just me.

cheers!
http://www.ezee.se/

18 May 23, 2008 at 04:31 by wwwDOTezeeDOTse

Um me again… just had an (old)idea; if all you wanted to do was see how your downloads were going and if needed control your app (no matter if its utorrent or whatever client you use) why not use a remote admin program like remotely anywhere or something similar?
Much more secure… totally private, again… imho.

Cheers!
http://www.ezee.se/

19 May 23, 2008 at 06:31 by NKA

I must say that I have to agree with the majority of posters. Why would I want facebook to save my download history, when I can just use the webui from any computer?

20 May 23, 2008 at 07:37 by lol

Since Facebook never ever ever deletes personal data, even if you delete your account, it’s just the best tool ever for riaa and other mafia-organisation to get a history of what people do.

I’m amazed people use facebook anyway.

21 May 23, 2008 at 07:47 by Anonymous

lame

22 May 23, 2008 at 08:51 by Don Kee

“..it’s a bad idea especially if your stealing music from the RIAA with it”

You can’t steal music from the RIAA, even if they owned it. Sharing is no more a crime than radio taping or buying bootleg LPs. Because it’s done without their permission doesn’t make it so either.

23 May 23, 2008 at 08:56 by t

terrible idea

24 May 23, 2008 at 09:22 by 3z3

Great, and I’m sure the next big step will be a remote desktop sharing app for Facebook too.

Facebook + BT = Industry rape.

25 May 23, 2008 at 09:52 by PreTome

this is very.. interesting.. just a way to show everyone what you have stolen.

http://www.pretome.net community open for you! :)

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