How to Download a Magnet Link with and without uTorrent
From the article below you will learn how to download a magnet link with uTorrent in detailed instructions. If you donât like downloading magnet links with torrent client, the article offers you another way to freely download magnet links without uTorrent by using MultCloud.
September 3, 2021 | 5 minutes read
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If you occasionally get a magnet link from the Internet or your friends which contains information about movies, music, and other files, you may be confused about how to download files from magnet links mainly because you could not drop the magnet link straightly to Chrome or Edge browser and open files even the magnet link is a kind of URI (uniform resource identifier).Â
Therefore, this article will tell you in detail about how to download a magnet link with uTorrent and also how to download magnet links without uTorrent when yon meet the problem about uTorrent magnet link not working or you just donât want to download and install any torrent client to help you download magnet links.
What is a Magnet Link and an uTorrent?
Before learning about how to download from magnet link using uTorrent, it would be best if you could get an overview about the magnet link and uTorrent.
Magnet Link
Magnet links are mainly used in P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing networks which the networks are combined by several computer servers. The magnet links allow files to be referred to without the need for a continuously available host. These files can be generated by anyone who already has the file without a central authority.Â
When you download a shared file from the P2P network through the magnet link, actually you download the file piece by piece from various servers which own part of the shared file. In this way, magnet link can save much bandwidth on downloading files.
uTorrent
uTorrent is a free software and also a famous BitTorrent torrent client which is used to download large files in a file sharing environment especially in P2P network. It is part of BitTorrentâs portfolio and is designed to work with major mobile and desktop operating systems such as Windows, Linux, Android, etc.
How to Download a Magnet Link with uTorrent
To use uTorrent to download from magnet links, first you may have to download the desktop application of uTorrent from its official website. You can click here to download the uTorrent application for Windows. And one important thing you need to know is that uTorrent only supports the mobile application of Android up to now.
After installing, you have prepared well to follow the instructions about how to download magnet links with uTorrent.
Step 1: Open uTorrent application on your device. Click âAdd Torrent +â button.
Step 2: Copy and paste the magnet link to the pop-up window. Then click âAdd torrentâ.
Step 3: Select the exact files which you want to download from the magnet link.
Step 4: Select the destination where you want to store the downloaded files in your device.
Step 5: Click âAddâ. And the files will be automatically download to your device.
Tips: uTorrent will show you a detailed interface of the downloading progress for you to manage.
How to Download Magnet Links without uTorrent
You might encounter this situation that the magnet links which you have added to uTorrent can not be seeded and downloaded by uTorrent or simply uTorrent magnet link not working. Whatâs more, you may think that itâs totally unnecessary to download a tiny file from the magnet link while installing an application.Â
So, here we will recommend a useful tool called MultCloud to help you download magnet links without uTorrent so as to download torrent without a client.
What is MultCloud?
As a free multiple cloud storage manager, MultCloud can help you to gather all your cloud drives together to manage them in a single interface. It offers various functional features to let you manage files stored in these clouds with ease. One of the distinctive functions which can help you to download magnet link without client is Remote Upload.
Remote Upload can download files from URLs, Torrents, magnet links, and other links to your cloud drive without basing on your network. The background program of MultCloud will download the magnet link directly to your clouds and let you download files from your clouds through direct download link. That is to say, this is also a great and easy way to convert magnet link to direct download link.
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Benefits of Using MultCloud:
- Since you are downloading from magnet link to your device through your own cloud drives, nothing will be stored in the third-party tool. Your data security will be largely protected.
- You could straightforwardly share the downloaded files from your clouds to your friends in MultCloud with 3 different sharing modes like Public Share, Private Share, and Source Share.
- You are able to access the downloaded files in anywhere at any time with any kind of device as long as your device can connect to the Internet.
- MultCloud provides you some excellent functions for you to transfer, sync or backup data from one of your clouds to another without complicated downloading and uploading, including Cloud Transfer, Cloud Sync and Copy to.
- As a free cloud file manager, MultCloud allows you to download, upload, cut, copy, rename and preview the files through your clouds without switching accounts.
How to Download a Magnet link Using MultCloud
Given that MultCloud will download files from magnet link to one of your cloud drives, you may have to prepare a cloud which has enough storage space to store the downloaded files. Please donât be in a hurry, downloading magnet link through this way may not only keep your file in secure but also save the local storage of your devices.
Here we take how to download magnet link to Google Drive as an example to show you how to download a magnet link without uTorrent.
Step 1: Sign up MultCloud for free. You could also click âTry without signing upâ to enter MultCloud permanently without username and password.
Step 2: Click â+Add Cloudâ and choose Google Drive icon. Then follow the pop-up window to allow MultCloud to access your Google Drive account.
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You can add as many cloud drives as you have with no quantity limit since MultCloud supports more than 30 leading cloud drive services, including Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, MEGA, Flickr, FTP, etc.
Your cloud accounts are completely safe because MultCloud accesses your accounts without recording the corresponding username and password by basing on OAuth authorization system. This system is supported by major cloud drive servers like Google Drive and Dropbox.
Step 3: If you are in Google Drive page of MultCloud, click âRemote Uploadâ in the dropdown menu. And if you are in Remote Upload page, click âCreate Taskâ instead.
Step 4: Copy and paste the magnet link to the blank of the pop-up window. If you open the window from Remote Upload page, you may have to manually select Google Drive as the cloud to store the downloaded files.
Step 5: Click the purple button âSave to Cloudâ. Then the downloading task will be completed even you shut down the browser window or your device.
Tips: As a free user of MultCloud, you could create Remote Upload task with only one link to download to your cloud at a time. But if you upgrade your account to a higher level, you are able to add at most 5 parallel links to perform Remote Upload tasks at the same time.
Conclusion
By looking through the perfect solutions about how to download a magnet link with uTorrent and also how to download magnet links without uTorrent by using MultCloud, itâs now up to you to choose whether to download magnet links with uTorrent or MultCloud.
In addition, after downloading files from magnet links, you could use Cloud Transfer to backup Google Drive to Dropbox without taking up any of your extra time and effort. In this way, your files can be added a layer of protection.
One last word, even sharing files through magnet links can be useful in some cases, you still have to be careful of those malwares. And you'd better keep yourself safe against various cybersecurity and legal risks since using magnet links is in a legally gray area in some degree.
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