thepirate/readme.md

Pirate

Command line torrent downloader.

Script is the client side, Transmission server needs to be running on the local network, with RPC enabled and firewall open on port 9091/tcp.

Default behavior parses HTML pages on ThePirateBay based on a search string provided. Can also add direct links with --link. Downloads torrents using transmission-daemon.

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Requirements

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.

This script depends on 3 external Python libraries. Please ensure the following are installed to the system:

• transmissionrpc
• requests
• beautifulsoup4

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

pip install transmissionrpc requests beautifulsoup4

Make sure the server running Transmission (if not localhost) is accepting traffic on port 9091, and RPC is enabled in the Transmission settings.json file.

Usage

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

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

Then just run it

$ pirate.py

The rest is self explanatory

BONUS Add a cron job to run //removeFinishedTorrents.py// every 5 minutes. Hook it into PushBullet for mobile notifications.

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