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Hydra
Hydra is a game launcher with its own embedded bittorrent client and a self-managed repack scraper. The launcher is written in TypeScript (Electron) and Python, which handles the torrenting system by using libtorrent.
Installation
Install Node.js
Ensure you have Node.js installed on your machine. If not, download and install it from nodejs.org.
Install Yarn
Yarn is a package manager for Node.js. If you haven't installed Yarn yet, you can do so by following the instructions on yarnpkg.com.
Clone the Repository
git clone https://github.com/hydralauncher/hydra.git
Install Node Dependencies
Navigate to the project directory and install the Node dependencies using Yarn:
cd hydra
yarn
Install Python 3.9
Ensure you have Python installed on your machine. You can download and install it from python.org.
Install Python Dependencies
Install the required Python dependencies using pip:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Environment variables
You'll need an SteamGridDB API Key in order to fetch the game icons on installation.
Once you have it, you can paste the .env.example file and put it on STEAMGRIDDB_API_KEY.
Running
Once you've installed all dependencies, you can build and run Hydra Download Manager. Here are the basic commands:
Build
Build the bittorrent client
Build the bittorrent client by using this command:
pyinstaller torrent-client/main.py --distpath resources/dist --icon=images/icon.ico -n hydra-download-manager
Build the Electron application
Build the Electron application by using this command:
yarn make
License
Hydra is licensed under the MIT License.