seedboxtools 1.1

Package contents

This package contains several tools:

1. leechtorrents: a tool that leeches finished downloads from a torrent seedbox to your local computer.

2. configleecher: a configuration wizard to set up the clients to work properly against your seedbox.

Requirements

• Python 2.7 on your local machine

• Python iniparse

• an SSH server on your seedbox, and a public key-authenticated user account in it, with read access to the torrents and downloads directories

• an SSH client on your local machine

• rsync on both machines

• if you are using TorrentFlux-b4rt on your seedbox:

  • the command torrentinfo-console from the BitTorrent package, installed on the seedbox

  • the command fluxcli installed and operational on the seedbox

• if you are using Transmission on your seedbox:

  • the command transmission-remote from the Transmission package, installed on your local machine

  • the API server port open so that transmission-remote can query it

Installation

You will need to install this package on your local machine.

You can install this package directly from PyPI using pip:

pip install seedboxtools

If you are on an RPM-based distribution, build an RPM from the source package and install the resulting RPM:

python setup.py bdist_rpm

Otherwise, just use the standard Python installation system:

python setup.py install

You can also run it directly from the unpacked source directory:

export PYTHONPATH=src
bin/leechtorrents --help

Configuration

The tools require some configuration after installation. There is a nifty configuration wizard that will set the configuration file up. Run it and answer a few questions:

leechtorrents

The script will ask you for the necessary configuration values before you can run the tools here.

Note: Both TorrentFlux and Transmission protect their download and torrent directories using permissions. You should become part of the UNIX group they use to protect those directories, and change the permissions accordingly so you have at least read and list permissions (rx).

How to run the downloader script periodically

You can do it with cron, or in a systemd unit file.

* * * * * leechtorrents -Dql

# Listing: /etc/systemd/system/leechtorrents.service
# ====================================================

[Unit]
Description=Torrentleecher
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=leechtorrents -g .torrentleecher.log -ql -t 30
User=<YOUR_USERNAME_GOES_HERE>
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=network.target

systemctl reload
systemctl enable leechtorrents.service
systemctl start leechtorrents.service