Auto-load magnets from other computer

[Glader]

Hi! My current method of torrenting is to save .torrent files on a network drive which gets polled by my torrent-chewing server and downloaded on another network drive. In short: I browse torrents on one computer and run them on another. Now that TPB is joining the ranks of magnet-only sites I feel like this is a feature that either needs to be migrated to the new environment or deprecated and removed (I'm hoping for the former). Because of the huge difference in how the magnet link is presented to the user as opposed to a .torrent file I suggest that you create either a gutted version of uTorrent which converts a magnet link into a .torrent file, which can then be saved at the pick-up location of the real torrent-client OR that you create an even smaller application which simply forwards the magnet link to a chosen uTorrent client on the network. The latter solution should be simpler to implement but either way the end usage should go from

"download torrent" -> "browse to location" -> "save to location" -> torrent starts on other computer

to

"download magnet" -> "open with [magnet muncher]" -> torrent starts on other computer

I have not managed to find any alternative torrent client which has this capability so I submit to you this humble suggestion in the hope that you keep uTorrent awesome and at the forefront of the torrent frontier

[Firon]

I don't see it as very likely that we'll make such a tool. But perhaps one day if an engineer is bored and has some time...

[Glader]

That's a real shame, it's a very useful feature for those who centralize their torrenting. Thanks for the honest answer though, it's appreciated very much

[Firon]

Your best bet is to use remote (or the webui) to add magnet links.

[drewb0y]

I second this request. Just posted https://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=115356 about the same thing here. All I have figured out to do is actually start the torrents on on emachine for long enough to download the actual torrent file, and then proceed as before. Adding a few magnet links through webui is no big deal, but for a whole batch would be a pain.

[drewb0y]

Okay, looks like a found a suitable way to do what I want here https://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=95530

Apparently this capability is built in to the miniui by Ultima which can be found here http://sites.google.com/site/ultimasites/utorrent-miniui

I added this to my webui.zip as per instructions and was able to add multiple magnet links successfully.

Just what I needed. : )

Thanks Ultima!

(I could have found this earlier but my search terms on the forum were failing me)

[latebeat]

Hi! My current method of torrenting is to save .torrent files on a network drive which gets polled by my torrent-chewing server and downloaded on another network drive. In short: I browse torrents on one computer and run them on another. Now that TPB is joining the ranks of magnet-only sites I feel like this is a feature that either needs to be migrated to the new environment or deprecated and removed (I'm hoping for the former). Because of the huge difference in how the magnet link is presented to the user as opposed to a .torrent file I suggest that you create either a gutted version of uTorrent which converts a magnet link into a .torrent file, which can then be saved at the pick-up location of the real torrent-client OR that you create an even smaller application which simply forwards the magnet link to a chosen uTorrent client on the network. The latter solution should be simpler to implement but either way the end usage should go from

"download torrent" -> "browse to location" -> "save to location" -> torrent starts on other computer

to

"download magnet" -> "open with [magnet muncher]" -> torrent starts on other computer

I have not managed to find any alternative torrent client which has this capability so I submit to you this humble suggestion in the hope that you keep uTorrent awesome and at the forefront of the torrent frontier

Check out utorrent adder it does exactly what you need.

http://sites.google.com/site/ultimasites/utorrent-adder