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 a SteamGridDB API Key in order to fetch the game icons on installation. If you want to have onlinefix as a repacker you'll need to add your credentials to the .env

Once you have it, you can paste the .env.example file and put it on STEAMGRIDDB_API_KEY, ONLINEFIX_USERNAME, ONLINEFIX_PASSWORD.

Running

Once you've got all things set up, you can run the following command to start both the Electron process and the bittorrent client:

yarn start

Build

Build the bittorrent client

Build the bittorrent client by using this command:

python torrent-client/setup.py build

Build the Electron application

Build the Electron application by using this command:

yarn make

Uninstalling Hydra on Linux/Ubuntu using terminal

sudo apt-get --purge remove hydralauncher

Contributors

Made with contrib.rocks.

License

Hydra is licensed under the MIT License.