popeyWhen I want to download a "Linux ISO", I usually ssh to a server somewhere and run "rtorrent" and leave it running. In 2024, is there a "better" way to do this on a remote machine (i.e. not a desktop app on my laptop) 🤔
Terence EdenYou can set rtorrent to monitor a directory. So save the .torrent there and it'll automagically start downloading.
I mosh into a server and run a new tmux session for rtorrent. So it is always running.
James Henstridge@popey Maybe transmission-daemon? It's the headless version of program, and has a web interface + REST API.
As well as the default command line tool, there's a Python client library.
Garrett LeSage@popey Transmission and Fragments both support connecting to a remote instance. Transmission can run on embedded devices.
So, run Transmission on the server and connect to it from a graphical app on your desktop to add and manage your server's downloads?
(Yeah, this is a desktop app on your laptop, but only as a frontend to your server that's doing the real work.)
Gabriele Musco@popey aria2c handles torrents quite well
Jake Howard@popey qbittorrent has a web UI
prozak@popey don’t think this is novel but I use deluge installed on a headless server, web ui on port 8112 allows for all config, folder watching, etc. to manage
Inaction FigureI don't bother torrenting ISOs any more. I'll just download it with my browser.
If the download fails, I'll go to the directory and do `wget -c <url>` to continue the download where it left off.
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Transmission daemon, with the RPC interface reverse proxied with a login, and the peer traffic over a VPN that dynamically gives you a port forward like pia. You can modify one of many pia-wg wrapper scripts to get the port, put it in a settings.json.edits, stop transmission, copy the settings in place, then start it again.
Transmission daemon, with the RPC interface reverse proxied with a login, and the peer traffic over a VPN that dynamically gives you a port forward like pia. You can modify one of many pia-wg wrapper scripts to get the port, put it in a settings.json.edits, stop transmission, copy the settings in place, then start it again.
Ryan Finnie@popey lftp actually has a bittorrent client built in:
lftp -e "torrent ${TORRENT_URL}"