Transmission Scripts

Introduction

Thanks to the powerful rpc, transmission-remote can talk to any client that has the rpc enabled. This means that a script written using transmission-remote or rpc can, without rewrite, comunicate with all the Transmission clients: GTK+ client, Mac client and the daemon.

Mac OS users may wonder wether there will be Applescript scripts, the answer is no. Although Applescript is a nice technology, it's a pain to implement. However, Mac OS X is a Unix after all, so any script you find here will also work on the Mac. Even from within Applescript, you can run these scripts by typing: do shell script "path/to/script".

How-To

If you are interested at writing scripts for Transmission, have a look at the following pages:

• Transmission man pages?
• Configuration Files
• Editing Configuration Files
• Environment Variables
• RPC Protocol Specification

For those who need more information how to use the scripts, have a look at the following links:

• ​Cron How-To: Run scripts at a regular interval

Scripts

Start/Stop?

• init.d script (Debian, Ubuntu and BSD deratives)
• runscript (Gentoo and other runscript compatible systems)

Utility

• Email Notification Script

Obsoleted

Functionality of these scripts has been implemented in libtransmission and is thus available in all clients.

• Block List Updater
• Watch Directory Script
• Bandwidth Scheduler

contrib/scripts

Tomas Carnecky (aka wereHamster) is maintaining a set of scripts in his ​github repository.

Scripts which have not yet been ported and may not work with the latest version:

• ​http://pastie.org/338556: Python - Fetch new torrents from tvrss
• ​http://pastie.org/338555: PHP - Stop finished torrents
• ​http://pastie.org/443058: Perl - Network traffic graph, based on rrdtool (example: ​http://skitch.com/werehamster/bmjg8/bittorrent-traffic)
• ​http://transmission.pastebin.com/QzVxQDtM: Bash - (cron)script to keep a maximum number of torrents running; starting and pausing torrents as necessary