seedboxtools 1.2.11

A tool to automate downloading finished torrents from a seedbox

Tools included in this set

This package contains several tools:

1. leechtorrents: a tool that leeches finished downloads from a torrent seedbox to your local computer.
2. configleecher: a configuration wizard to set up the clients to work properly against your seedbox.
3. uploadtorrents: a tool that lets you queue up a torrent or magnet link for download on your seedbox.

What you need to have before using this package

• Python 2.7 on your local machine

• Python iniparse installed there

• Python requests installed there, version 0.11.1 or higher (with SSL support)

• a seedbox running TorrentFlux-b4rt or Transmission Web + API, or a PulsedMedia ruTorrent seedbox from PulsedMedia.com

• an SSH server on your seedbox

• an SSH client on your local machine

• a public key-authenticated user account in the seedbox, so that your user can log in without passwords and can read the torrents and downloads directories in the seedbox

• rsync installed on both machines

• if you are using TorrentFlux-b4rt on your seedbox:

  • the command torrentinfo-console from the BitTorrent package, installed on the seedbox
  • the command fluxcli installed and operational on the seedbox

• if you are using Transmission on your seedbox:

  • the command transmission-remote from the Transmission package, installed on your local machine
  • the API server port open so that transmission-remote can query it

• if you are using a PulsedMedia seedbox, you don't need to do anything

Installation

You will need to install this package on your local machine.

You can install this package directly from PyPI using pip:

pip install seedboxtools

If you are on an RPM-based distribution, build an RPM from the source package and install the resulting RPM:

python setup.py bdist_rpm

Otherwise, just use the standard Python installation system:

python setup.py install

You can also run it directly from the unpacked source directory:

export PYTHONPATH=src
bin/leechtorrents --help

Configuration

The tools require some configuration after installation. There is a nifty configuration wizard that will set the configuration file up. Run it and answer a few questions:

configleecher

The script will ask you for the necessary configuration values before you can run the tools here. You should run this wizard on the machine where you'll be running leechtorrents (see below).

Note: Both TorrentFlux and Transmission protect their download and torrent directories using permissions. You should become part of the UNIX group they use to protect those directories, and change the permissions accordingly so you have at least read and list permissions (rx).

Downloading finished torrents with the leecher tool

The leecher tool will contact your seedbox and ask for a listing of finished torrents, then download them locally to the directory you chose during configuration. There are various ways to run the script:

• manually on a terminal window
• with cron
• in a systemd unit file as a service

leechtorrents

* * * * * leechtorrents -Dql

# Listing: /etc/systemd/system/leechtorrents.service
# ====================================================

[Unit]
Description=Torrentleecher
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/leechtorrents -g .torrentleecher.log -ql -t 30
User=<YOUR_USERNAME_GOES_HERE>
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=network.target

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable leechtorrents.service
systemctl start leechtorrents.service

How to upload torrents to your seedbox

The uploadtorrents command-line tool included in this package will upload the provided torrent files or magnet links to your seedbox:

uploadtorrents TORRENT [TORRENT ...]

This tool currently only supports PulsedMedia clients.