BC Wiki - Bittorrent

Category: software

Creating a Torrent

From Transmission or another bittorrent client, you can click ‘new’ or ‘create’ to make your own torrent. All you need to get started is the file you want to torrent! Thomas Vanhoutte has a list of the top trackers to use.

Advertising Your Torrent

Create an account on The Pirate Bay and upload your torrent to publicly advertise it.

Configuring Transmission

use apt-file to look for files!

Bittorrent CLI

https://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/ConfigFiles

If you want to swap between the two applications, all you have to do is pass in a different config directory with the -g command-line option. For example, to have the daemon pick up where the gtk+ client left off, run transmission-daemon -g ~/.config/transmission

http://askubuntu.com/questions/439950/how-do-i-stop-transmission-daemon

http://askubuntu.com/questions/251797/transmission-daemon-keeps-resetting
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view transmission status through cli
http://askubuntu.com/questions/335511/view-transmission-status-through-cli

transmission-remote -n transmission:transmission -st
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    "rpc-authentication-required": false,
    "rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
    "rpc-enabled": true,
    "rpc-password": "{d39ca584ab988e5995b580d03c9feb5b8a3a2de2D54JfA1O",
    "rpc-port": 9091,
    "rpc-url": "/transmission/",
    "rpc-username": "",
    "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1",
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,

    "rpc-authentication-required": false,
    "rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
    "rpc-enabled": true,
    "rpc-password": "{06e9723d3d7c8212d9c873eb09b7679c9de44af31DKQpKVG",
    "rpc-port": 9091,
    "rpc-url": "/transmission/",
    "rpc-username": "",
    "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1",
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,

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brandon@D094:~$ nano .config/transmission/settings.json
brandon@D094:~$ ps aux | grep trans
brandon  13912  0.8  0.1 2186232 7436 ?        Ssl  21:06   0:00 transmission-daemon -g /home/brandon/.config/transmission
brandon  13978  0.0  0.0  15936   936 pts/9    S+   21:07   0:00 grep --color=auto trans
brandon@D094:~$ kill 13912
brandon@D094:~$ nano .config/transmission/settings.json
brandon@D094:~$ nano .config/transmission-daemon/settings.json
brandon@D094:~$ transmission-daemon -g ~/.config/transmission
brandon@D094:~$ transmission-remote -n transmission:transmission -st

CURRENT SESSION
  Uploaded:   None
  Downloaded: None
  Ratio:      None
  Duration:   6 seconds (6 seconds)

TOTAL
  Started 6 times
  Uploaded:   41.59 GB
  Downloaded: 30.72 GB
  Ratio:      1.3
  Duration:   3 days, 20 hours (332231 seconds)