# Install superseedr with Homebrew

BitTorrent Client in your Terminal. Version 1.0.12 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-15.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:superseedr
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install superseedr
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:superseedr
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/superseedr>
- **Version:** 1.0.12
- **Source summary:** BitTorrent Client in your Terminal
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/Jagalite/superseedr>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Jagalite/superseedr>
- **License:** GPL-3.0-or-later
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/Jagalite/superseedr/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.12.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-15T21:38:24Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- superseedr (cli)
- superseedr (alias)

## Build dependencies

- pkgconf
- rust

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-04
- Package-manager version: 1.0.12
- Package-manager updated: 2026-07-15
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/Jagalite/superseedr
- Upstream latest detected: v1.0.12 (current)
## Project history and usage

SuperSeedr is a Rust BitTorrent client built around a high-refresh terminal interface, swarm observability, magnet and torrent-file ingestion, RSS automation, and optional shared configuration for desktop, server, and homelab deployments.

### Project history

The official repository was created in October 2025. The project developed as a terminal-native BitTorrent client with a custom asynchronous engine, a Ratatui interface, and first-party support for modern BitTorrent features including v2 hybrid swarms.

By 2026 the project documented VPN-aware Docker deployment through Gluetun, a file-oriented automation CLI, shared multi-host configuration, cluster leader failover, RSS ingestion, and platform installers alongside ordinary package-manager distribution.

### Adoption history

SuperSeedr provides release installers for Windows, macOS, and Debian/Ubuntu, plus installation through Cargo, Homebrew, and the Arch User Repository. The official README also records recognition as a Terminal Trove Tool of the Week, reflecting adoption in the terminal-application community.

### How it is used

Users can launch the interactive TUI with `superseedr`, paste magnet links or torrent paths, and inspect swarm and I/O behavior. The CLI also supports scriptable add, status, stop, and shared-configuration operations, while Docker users can route traffic through Gluetun with a kill switch and live port-forward updates.

### Why package nerds care

SuperSeedr packages a feature-rich network client as one Rust terminal binary while still supporting native installers, Cargo, Homebrew, AUR, and containers. Its portable shared-root layout and offline-capable file control model are unusual packaging-friendly choices for operating one torrent catalog across heterogeneous machines.

### Timeline

- 2025: The official SuperSeedr repository was created.
- 2025–2026: The project published an active sequence of tagged releases.
- 2026: The 1.0 release line added cross-platform installers, cluster-oriented shared configuration, and expanded automation documentation.

### Related projects

- Ratatui underpins the terminal interface, Tokio powers asynchronous work, and Gluetun provides the optional VPN container boundary. SuperSeedr interoperates with the BitTorrent v1 and v2 ecosystems and documents private builds that exclude DHT and peer exchange.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/Jagalite/superseedr#readme>
- <https://github.com/Jagalite/superseedr/blob/main/docs/cli.md>
- <https://github.com/Jagalite/superseedr/blob/main/docs/configuration-and-backups.md>
- <https://github.com/Jagalite/superseedr/releases>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for superseedr. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.



## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: <config-dir>/settings.toml, <config-dir>/torrent_metadata.toml, <config-dir>/launcher_shared_config.toml, <config-dir>/launcher_host_id.toml, <mount-root>/superseedr-config/settings.toml, <mount-root>/superseedr-config/catalog.toml, <mount-root>/superseedr-config/torrent_metadata.toml, <mount-root>/superseedr-config/hosts/<host-id>/config.toml

## Credential files

- Unix: <docker-compose-dir>/.gluetun.env
## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** superseedr
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable


## Related links

- [Source-control packages](https://pkg.so/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Language runtime packages](https://pkg.so/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched language runtime, compiler, or interpreter metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://pkg.so/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [pkgconf](https://pkg.so/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [rust](https://pkg.so/brew/rust/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [mabel](https://pkg.so/brew/mabel/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: bittorrent, cli, networking, terminal, tui.
- [chawan](https://pkg.so/brew/chawan/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, networking, terminal, tui.
- [miniserve](https://pkg.so/brew/miniserve/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, file-sharing, networking, rust.
- [torrra](https://pkg.so/brew/torrra/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: bittorrent, cli, networking, tui.
- [amfora](https://pkg.so/brew/amfora/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, networking, terminal, tui.
- [senpai](https://pkg.so/brew/senpai/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, networking, terminal, tui.
- [intermodal](https://pkg.so/brew/intermodal/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: bittorrent, cli, networking, rust.
- [asuka](https://pkg.so/brew/asuka/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, networking, rust, terminal.
- [rqbit](https://pkg.so/brew/rqbit/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: bittorrent, cli, client, file, file-sharing.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/superseedr.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/superseedr.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
