Disclamer

JOAL is not designed to help or encourage you downloading illegal materials ! You must respect the law applicable in your country. I couldn't be held responsible for illegal activities performed by your usage of JOAL.

JOAL

This is the server application (with an optional webui), if you are interested in the desktop app look at here.

Which client can JOAL emulate?

Client	Support	Comment		Client	Support	Comment
BitComet		Will never be !		Transmission
BitTorrent				µTorrent
Deluge				Vuze Azureus
qBittorrent				Vuze Leap
rTorrent

If your favorite client is not yet supported feel free to ask (except for BitComet).
Ask for it in GitHub issues or mail joal.contact@gmail.com.

Preview

Getting started

Download the latest tar.gz release. Put config.json, clients, and torrents folder into the location of your choice (this will be your configuration folder). For the rest of this README, it will be named joal-conf.

The folder should look like this:

How to run

java -jar ./jack-of-all-trades-X.X.X.jar --joal-conf="PATH_TO_CONF"

• --joal-conf=PATH_TO_CONF is a required argument: path to the joal-conf folder (ie: /home/anthony/joal-conf).

By default the web-ui is disabled, you can enable it with some more arguments:

• --spring.main.web-environment=true: to enable the web context.
• --server.port=YOUR_PORT: the port to be used for both HTTP and WebSocket connection.
• --joal.ui.path.prefix="SECRET_OBFUSCATION_PATH": use your own complicated path here (this will be your first layer of security to keep joal secret). This is security though obscurity, but it is required in our case. This must contains only alphanumeric characters (no slash, backslash, or any other non-alphanum char)
• --joal.ui.secret-token="SECRET_TOKEN": use your own secret token here (this is some kind of a password, choose a complicated one).

Once joal is started head to: http://localhost:port/SECRET_OBFUSCATION_PATH/ui/ (obviously, replace SECRET_OBFUSCATION_PATH) by the value you had chosen The joal.ui.path.prefix might seems useless but it's actually crucial to set it as complex as possible to prevent peoples to know that joal is running on your server.

Start seeding

Just add some .torrent files to the joal-conf/torrents folder. There is no need to restart JOAL to add more torrents, add it to the folder and JOAL will be aware of after few seconds.

If WebUi is enabled you can also drag and drop torrents in the joal ui.

Docker

Build it:

docker build -f Dockerfile -t araymond/joal .

If you want to build the raspberry docker image replace Dockerfile with Dockerfile.arm.

Then run it: In next command you have to replace PATH_TO_CONF, PORT, SECRET_OBFUSCATION_PATH and SECRET_TOKEN.

docker run -d \
    -p PORT:PORT \
    -v PATH_TO_CONF:/data \
    --name="joal" araymond/joal \
    --joal-conf="/data" \
    --spring.main.web-environment=true \
    --server.port="PORT" \
    --joal.ui.path.prefix="SECRET_OBFUSCATION_PATH" \
    --joal.ui.secret-token="SECRET_TOKEN"

You can pass along all the CLI argument to customize JOAL.

Configuration file

Application configuration

The application configuration belongs in joal-conf/config.json.

{
  "minUploadRate" : 30,
  "maxUploadRate" : 160,
  "simultaneousSeed" : 20,
  "client" : "qbittorrent-3.3.16.client",
  "keepTorrentWithZeroLeechers" : true
}

• minUploadRate : The minimum uploadRate you want to fake (in kB/s) (required)
• maxUploadRate : The maximum uploadRate you want to fake (in kB/s) (required)
• simultaneousSeed : How many torrents should be seeding at the same time (required)
• client : The name of the .client file to use in joal-conf/clients/ (required)
• keepTorrentWithZeroLeechers: should JOAL keep torrent with no leechers or seeders. If yes, torrent with no peers will be seed at 0kB/s. If false torrents will be deleted on 0 peers reached. (required)

Supported browser (for web-ui)

Client	Support	Comment
		Lack of referrer-policy & No support for WebSocket
		Lack of referrer-policy
		Lack of referrer-policy
		Not enough space to explain...

Some non-supported browser might works, but they may be unsafe due to the lack of support for referrer-policy.

Thanks:

This project use a modified version of the awesome mpetazzoni/ttorrent library. Thanks to mpetazzoni for this. Also this project has benefited from the help of several peoples, see Thanks.md