How to download only the torrent file from magnet link?

budokan · Post by **budokan** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 12:49 am

Sometimes I would like to download only a few files from a magnet link. I can do this with transmission-remote CLI application by doing:

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transmission-remote -l

I get the list of my added torrents, so I can get the ID of the desired torrent, let's say 24, then I issue the command:

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transmission-remote -t24 -f

So I can enlist the files within the torrent with their own ID, let's say I want to download only 1,3 and 7, so then I can issue the command:

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transmission-remote -t24 -Gall -g1,3,7

But I can't enlist the files with their ID inside a torrent with a magnet link added, only with a .torrent file added. So how can I download only the torrent file at first from a magnet link? Is it possible at all? Currently I am using torcache.net with cURL, but some torrent are missing there. I also tried ariac command line client to download only the torrent file, but no success.