Terminal + Web Bittorrent Client

pyther · 2008-01-26 20:11:37

Hi
I'm looking for a terminal based bittorrent client that has a web interface. I want to run this on a server so something that could run in the background would be great!
Thanks

_will · 2008-01-26 21:00:23

its not exactly what your looking for but i think this is a popular solution

rtorrent+screen (or dtach) can be accessed remotely with ssh

server side:
$ screen -dmS torrents rtorrent
(if you want to run it on startup add su user -c ".." around the command and add it in rc.local)
"client" side:
$ ssh user@host
$ screen -x torrents
if you're trying to get at it from windows, putty.exe will work simply by clicking "run" from the browser prompt
(putty: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgta … load.html)

Last edited by _will (2008-01-26 21:03:07)

bionnaki · 2008-01-26 21:03:17

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RTo … ent_client

rtorrent is the best.

any reason you need a web interface?

pyther · 2008-01-26 21:46:10

I like gui's

_will · 2008-01-26 21:52:32

you could try http://azureuswiki.com/index.php/HeadlessSwingUiHowTo
or
http://azureuswiki.com/index.php/DaemonizedAzureus (edit to add this link)
seems like more effort and bloat for less function

Last edited by _will (2008-01-26 21:54:47)

bionnaki · 2008-01-26 21:55:41

well, there is torrentflux in aur. it's ok.

but once you try rtorrent, you wont go back.

pyther · 2008-01-26 22:28:03

Well I got rtorrent setup and running at seems all good, some really nice features, I like the fact you can drop a torrent file in a directory and it detects it! Also is there any ranking of torrents, like there is in azureus or deluge?

bionnaki · 2008-01-26 23:40:15

ranking?

do you mean how they are listed? press #s 1 through 8 to view what you want. or the arrow keys (left or right) to view more info on the selected torrent.

check out:
http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/wiki/RTorrentUserGuide
http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/05/02 … ike-a-pro/

Last edited by bionnaki (2008-01-26 23:42:30)

rocktorrentz · 2008-01-27 12:51:59

There are two web interfaces available for rtorrent although i've never bothered to try either of them as I'm quite happy with rtorrent in screen:
wTorrent and rTWi; wTorrent looks like the prettier of the two.

pyther · 2008-01-27 23:10:12

Thanks I got wTorrent setup, but I also ended up finding rtGui which is really nice and basic. http://code.google.com/p/rtgui/

bionnaki · 2008-01-27 23:37:28

that's the exact setup of rtorrent itself

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