Pleh Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 I would like to create an interface for Windows Media Center for uTorrent, so i can search for, and download media from well known torrent sites, like mininova, from my media center. All i need is some way to get information out of uTorrent, regarding current download status, and some way to send commands to either add, remove, stop, pause and resume torrents.If you can manage this fairly easily, can you add it to your next release, once ive completed the Windows MCE interface, i will release the source to the main developers of uTorrent (or the public if they wish) I will probably use .Net to create the MCE interface so if you could bare that in mind that would be great.If you have no plans to create an API for uTorrent, can you please let me know, so i can find another client that will. Allthough i would prefer to use yours (as its the best).ThanksPleh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfire Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 From what I understand, ludde does not plan on making an API or plug-in system at all. You can, however write macros like I have to execute the tasks you want from the frontend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pleh Posted January 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 Damn, thats going to make things difficult Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat128 Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 I vote for an API too =)I could remotely control my torrents box without using any kind of remote-screen viewers!(Actually the best way I found of controling it is using the auto-import feature, and a windows shared folder for completed torrents).I'll be doing it in .NET too.Thanks,Mat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Well, since ludde is planning on making a web interface already, the remote interface thing is kinda redundant/moot =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat128 Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Didnt know about the web interface... sounds good but it has to be well thought I could always parse my data from the web interface... I vote for an easy way to do this on the web interface (XML anyone?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DD32 Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Any more information on this?i'd like to either have a web interface or some form of XML data on current torrents etc..-=DD32=- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 the web interface is in alpha state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackice Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 ooh, an XML torrent status provider. That would be awesome.But disk useage would be higher than you'd want it. An API would of course be best (so all information transfer happens in memory) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 the data is sent as javascript, and then the AJAX interface renders the page using that info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Oh man, I can't wait to try it out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcon4 Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 the data is sent as javascript, and then the AJAX interface renders the page using that info. Data can't be sent "as javascript"... can it? AJAX is Asynchronous Javascript And XML, so the chances of µT using XML for its data in/out would be pretty high, that is, if it really IS using AJAX in the traditional sense... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyx Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 AJAX web interface!!This will be good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Buzzard Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 <slogan>AJAX: When JAVA just isn't slow enough</slogan> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcon4 Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 You've got it backwards. AJAX uses a decent browser-based language to "create" a program, while Java is like... BLOAT OMG BLOAT SHIT BLOAT. :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Uhm...AJAX is nowhere near as slow as JAVA...I'm not sure where you got that impression from. :| JAVA sucks, AJAX rocks. Now that's a slogan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Buzzard Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 And yet, processing any "browser-based language" is going to be slow as molasses compared to the server actually doing it's job and processing the data in something efficient like C/C++, perl, or even a bash script. In the case of AJAX, people just got too excited with having a new toy to notice that it's crap aside from a very few useful instances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 AJAX isn't actually that slow, it works pretty well, and provides for a fully functional interface I've tried it, and it's nicein any case, there's also gonna be a "light" interface (which uses only minimal amounts of javascript, and it's not possible to avoid using it)and no, µTorrent can't render the HTML itself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Buzzard Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 Hey, I'm all "three cheers" for not building an html renderer into µTorrent, that'd start the slippery slope away from the µ part. However, since there's a choice between C++ doing the numbers crunching and javascript, and since this is µTorrent, why take the far slower and far more memory intensive way of doing anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 it'd be difficult for µT to render the HTML. And as for the web interface, you have the choice of "wasting CPU" (you can control the update interval too) with the AJAX interface, or choosing the much simpler interface. It's all a matter of preference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcsobel Posted October 16, 2006 Report Share Posted October 16, 2006 This thread was started with a request for a "uTorrent API for MCE". We could really use the same thing for MediaPortal. It has a torrent plugin that lets you download torrents via any client (uTorrent, Azureus...etc) but so far only Azureus has way to programmatically get a listing of torrents being downloaded and start, stop or remove a torrent. It does not have to be fancy; just a couple web service calls such as "Torrent List" and "Remove Torrent" would be enough to get started with. Please let me know if I'm missing something and there is already a way to do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pleh Posted October 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2006 I forgot i made this thread :sYes there is now a way to do it. you can use the new WebUI. Download the beta and play around with it, you can send a web request to get the current torrentlist and you can add, pause start stop torrents etc.Once i am done with the FlashUI i will have to start this project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aero9 Posted June 2, 2007 Report Share Posted June 2, 2007 @silverfirehow do i make those macros ur talking about?thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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