[patch] Python plugins for Transmission/OSX

[Farcaller]

Hi all,

I wonder if anyone here is interested in plugin capabilities for OSX Transmission GUI. I've made a quick patch, that allows Transmission to be scriptable, and it solves all the issues that I was missing in Transmission (mainly intellectual removal of updated torrents and re-downloading of torrent files with updated data). If I see a demand for the feature, I'll try to clean up the patch to be nice-looking for upstream proposal (if upstream would accept such addition anyway).

[hippy dave]

sounds interesting, what functions are scriptable? cheers.

[Farcaller]

Technically speaking, absolutely everything is scriptable, as all the Objective-C layer is exposed to Python and you have access to all Transmission's classes. I'm now working on a set of hooks, that would simplify callbacks though. So, e.g, on torrent addition you can get a list of all torrents, regex-match any with similar name and trash them as obsoletes.

[hippy dave]

sounds good to me!

[lazybones]

I would be more interested in this for the transmission-daemon, as it stands there are a bunch of scripts out there that call the transmission-cli in a loop to monitor, perform tasks via loop or cron. It would be far more efficient if transmission it self could fire script events.

[mechanic]

I agree with lazybones. Supported for event-triggered hooks should be added to libtransmission and everything else can be done via the rpc methods.

[Bhima]

So... did you ever finish this? I was wanting Applescript awareness but Python awareness would be good enough.