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alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Scrape a torrent (get # of seeds and peers) from terminal?

Does anyone know of a way to get the number of seeds and peers connected to a torrent without actually opening the torrent for downloading?  The only terminal-method I've found is TorrentSniff, but that fails more often that not and is abandoned.  There's also gTorrentViewer which got the info I wanted, but it's GUI.

I'm willing to install an entire client if it is capable of retrieving the information and printing it to the terminal.  Thanks.  Oh, and 'hi' by the way.  I'm an Ubuntu expatriate, been using Arch for a few months now.

Last edited by alphaniner (2010-07-13 02:57:10)

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thisoldman

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 1,172

Re: Scrape a torrent (get # of seeds and peers) from terminal?

Transmission can do this. The package is "transmission-cli" in extra.

stillwater

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Registered: 2009-12-19

Posts: 7

Re: Scrape a torrent (get # of seeds and peers) from terminal?

I don't think transmissioncli can show how many peers that are connected. It can show all other information though.

alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: Scrape a torrent (get # of seeds and peers) from terminal?

Thanks, that did the trick.  stillwater, transmissioncli -s <torrrentfile> is the syntax.

Still interested in other methods if anyone knows of any.

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But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
-Lysander Spooner