The Pirate

#####Command line torrent downloader with Pushbullet notifications.

Add torrents to your Transmission download queue from anywhere, either via Pushbullet magnet link push or remote procedure calls[https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/rpc] direct to the machine.

Default behavior parses HTML pages on ThePirateBay based on a search string provided, then passes the magnet link to a locally running Transmission-Daemon (localhost or same LAN).

Can also add direct HTML pages of the desired torrent with --url, and direct magnet links and torrent files with --file.

This script was written in Python version 2.7. Version 3 compatibility requires rewriting some code, and may be done at a later time. Pull requests welcome.

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Requirements

2 Parter. Either do it all on localhost, or configure a second machine for headless management.

• Client setup
• Server setup

Client Side (thepirate)

3 external Python libraries needed. Please ensure the following are installed to the system

• transmissionrpc
• requests
• beautifulsoup4

TIP: If pip is installed, just run the following as root:

$ pip install transmissionrpc requests beautifulsoup4

Then edit the thepirate.py file, and change the rpcserver variable to the server's IP/hostname (if not localhost)

Server Side (transmission-daemon and pirate-remote.py)

Transmission-daemon needs to be installed for downloading torrents and TCP/9091 needs to be opened on the computer's firewall

RHEL/CentOS/Fedora (yum)

$ yum install transmission-daemon transmission-cli 
$ firewall-cmd --add-port=9091/tcp --permanent

Debian/Ubuntu (apt)

$ apt-get install transmission-daemon transmission-cli
$ iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 9091 -j ACCEPT

pushbullet.py is needed for Pushbullet notifications.

$ pip install pushbullet.py

Put your PushBullet API key in api variable in the script and set a cron job to run pirate-remote.py every X minutes.

Make sure the server running Transmission (if not localhost) is accepting traffic on TCP/9091 and RPC is enabled in the Transmission settings.json file. Read about configuring Transmission here.

Usage

Place the script somewhere in your executable path. I like ~/bin

$ mkdir ~/bin
$ echo 'PATH=$PATH:~/bin' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
$ cp pirate/thepirate.py ~/bin/thepirate

Then just run it

$ thepirate

TODO

• Refactor code; not a fan of the spaghetti code functions
• Comment script better; for personal reasons. I hate being confused 6 months later
• Pushbullet read/download new torrents
• Add config file support