Run script after other events

[Trina]

Would it be possible to run the torrent-done script after other events and pass in the event type as an environment variable? In particular, I would like to perform certain actions when a torrent is first added and when it is finished (completed seeding).

I found other people asking for this feature, but never as a separate ticket, always as comments to existing tickets: ticket:1796#comment:36, ticket:1796#comment:42, ticket:162#comment:3. And here's some links to relevant forum requestions: ​1, ​2, ​3.

[jordan]

This could get pretty crazy. Are there really that many use cases for all these scripts?

[Trina]

Well, it can be just a single script that the user can customize to take different actions depending upon the event type. For those of us using the daemon instead of a native client, there are none of the fancy notifications. It would be simple to accomplish something similar with a single script that could just do something like:

echo $TR_TORRENT_NAME changed state to $TR_TORRENT_STATE | $NOTIFICATION_PROGRAM

Also, I have several simple tasks that I currently implement using the polling method as frequently suggested in the forums. However, certain events are hard to check for using simple bash scripts. One case is when a torrent is manually deleted. This is hard to implement in bash, since it requires comparing the info from the current run to the previous run. I am hoping a deleted torrent would trigger an finished event if it had already completed downloading, or at least it would be possible to infer from the given data.

[livings124]

The only other state I could imagine this for is running a script when seeding completes. That's covered by #5484.