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by rramstad
Tue Jun 30, 2020 5:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Can transmission auto start seeding when leeechers appear?
Replies: 4
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Re: Can transmission auto start seeding when leeechers appear?

I guess what I'm driving at is that I don't run the tracker, it's not mine... and I understand that the other folks need to have a torrenthash and ping the tracker for them to show up as leechers on the tracker. I'm just looking for a clean way of seeding torrents for that tracker, as an individual,...
by rramstad
Tue Jun 30, 2020 5:18 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Can transmission auto start seeding when leeechers appear?
Replies: 4
Views: 10658

Re: Can transmission auto start seeding when leeechers appear?

Nope. It can not. You have to expose the torrenthash for other clients to connect to. You do this by seeding. But what is the use-case here? Reduce load? Yes, that's exactly the use case. The site in question has a policy of folks leeching when they want something, even if there are no seeders. It ...
by rramstad
Sun Jun 14, 2020 8:56 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Can transmission auto start seeding when leeechers appear?
Replies: 4
Views: 10658

Re: Can transmission auto start seeding when leeechers appear?

OK, trying to think about this myself... as no one popped up with any indication that this is something that's supported directly. Would I likely be able to write a Perl script to accomplish the above, using transmission-remote? It seems that command has options for listing torrents (presumably incl...
by rramstad
Fri Jun 12, 2020 6:48 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Can transmission auto start seeding when leeechers appear?
Replies: 4
Views: 10658

Can transmission auto start seeding when leeechers appear?

Hi, I am looking for a new BT solution and my main criterion is that I want to auto start seeding when leechers appear i.e. I have several thousand torrents loaded in my client, they all scrape periodically, almost none of them is started (at the request of the tracker admin), and at least right now...