Transmission

Getting Started

You'll need a few applications on your computer, such as VLC and Homebrew.

• On MacOS

  brew cask install vlc
  brew install python transmission-cli watch
  pip install pirate-get
  

• On Linux

  apt install transmission-cli transmission-daemon watch
  pip install pirate-get
  

This will install the required programs that you need to use this software.

• vlc will play the movies
• python3 will run the pirating web-scraper
• transmission-remote will handle the p2p transfer of data
• watch will show the file downloading

brew services start transmission-cli

Searching for a video

To search for the movie you aren't supposed to be pirating, use the pirate-get program with the -t flag.

Download videos from the TV-Show Seinfeld

pirate-get -t 'seinfeld'

After this page loads, you will see various options to choose from. Simply type the LINK index you want to download, and press enter. If you want multiple files, you can download all of them by separating each link number with a space, e.g. 0 2 16 would download link #0, link #2, and link #16

Viewing downloads

View a real-time status of all transmission files

watch -n 0.1 'transmission-remote -l'

Playing videos

vlc -f ~/Downloads/the_downloaded_file_name

Removing Files

# list all torrent files
transmission-remote -l
# remove and delete torrent ID 2
transmission-remote -t 2 -rad

Starting and Stopping the Daemon

• Starting the daemon

transmission-daemon

• Stopping the daemon

transmission-remote --exit

Configuration File

Configurations are stored at ~/.config/transmission-daemon, you can write the following command to dump an initial config file to that location:

transmission-daemon --dump-settings &> ~/.config/transmission-daemon

Be careful about determining where transmission is actually looking when launching with a config file. If TRANSMISSION_HOME is not set, Unix-based versions of Transmission will look for their settings in ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/transmission/. Sometimes this isn't true, however, and sometimes on macOS, (for instance, when transmission is launched as a homebrew service), the config file is placed in ~/Library/Application Support/Transmission.

Misc

You can specify a custom directory for your configuration file

• Have transmission read the config file from CONFIG_DIR/settings.json

transmission-daemon --config-dir CONFIG_DIR

• Print detailed information about a torrent

transmission-remote -t1 -i

• Get the magnet for the .torrent file MAGNET_FILE

transmission-show -m MAGNET_FILE