[HOW-TO] Handle magnet links from a remote pc

[cajainas]

In windows it's too easy (download utorrent adder, configure, and ready), but I find the way to send magnet links to utserver from a remote pc in GNU/Linux (Mint 14 in my case)

I think that dependencies are: python (>2.6.6) and python-libtorrent

- Download utwhisper from https://github.com/tranqil/utwhisper and extract in a folder ("~/magnet" in my case)

- Configure settings.py (user,pass and server url).

Optional: If you write in the console "python ~/magnet/utwhisper --addurl magneturl", you will add the magnet to your utserver. But forget this, we want to automate this (you can see the funcionalities of this program writing "python utwhisper --help")

Now, the way to handle magnets, using chrome is:

Open a console and write:

$ gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/command "python /home/YOURUSER/FOLDER/utwhisper.py --addurl %s"

$ gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/needs_terminal false -t bool

$ gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/enabled true

Now, if you click in a magnet, chrome will ask you if do you want a external application to handle the magnet protocol, press ok (and check on the remember option) and the torrent will download in your remote utserver.

Apologies for my bad english

[Firexi]

thank

[Firon]

https://github.com/bittorrent/btc

BTC is a more recommended tool for commandline operations.

[IamC8]

This also works well, have been using my script for a while now.

Just change myCRED="admin:" and

myURL="https://server:8080/gui/" below

 

#!/bin/bash

##

 

do_GetToken() {

echo "Getting token."

curl -s \

--connect-timeout 20 --max-time 60 \

--trace $logNAME".trace" \

--insecure \

--user $myCRED \

--cookie-jar $logNAME".cj" \

--output $logNAME".of" \

$myURL"token.html"

 

if [ -e $logNAME".of" ]

then

myTOKEN=`cat $logNAME".of" |sed 's/<[^<>]*>//g'`

if [ -z "$myTOKEN" ]

then

echo "Problem with Token, exiting"

exit 1

else

echo "Good token."

echo "Token obtained: "$myTOKEN >> $myLOGS

fi

else

clear

echo "Error connecting!"

exit

fi

}

 

do_PostTo() {

echo "Posting magnetic link."

curl -G -s \

--user-agent "blah blah" \

--user $myCRED \

--insecure \

--trace $logNAME".trace" \

--connect-timeout 20 --max-time 60 \

--cookie $logNAME".cj" \

--dump-header $logNAME".dh" \

--output $logNAME".of" \

--data token=$myTOKEN \

--data action=add-url \

--data-urlencode s=$magnetLink \

$myURL

 

checkRes=`cat $logNAME".of" |grep "build"`

if [ -z "$checkRes" ]

then

echo "Problem ???"

else

echo "Finished." 

fi

 

}

 

clear

me=`basename $0`

logNAME="/tmp/$me.log"

rm -f "$logNAME""*"

myLOGS="$logNAME"".mylogs"

myCRED="admin:"

myURL="https://server:8080/gui/"

rm -f $logNAME".of"

magnetList="/tmp/magnetList"

cat <<EOF> $magnetList

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:757b25d9681d493167b8d3759dbfddc983e80646&dn=ubuntu-14.04-server-amd64.iso

EOF

 

do_GetToken

 

while read magnetLink

do

do_PostTo

done < $magnetList