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Manage Transmission Through MSN Messenger

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:03 pm
by nate18
Hi Everyone

A while back I wrote a little app to monitor and control transmission through MSN Messenger. It is essentially acts as a chat bot that you run on your computer and can send messages to view certain aspects of transmission as well as delete torrents and add new torrents. Anyways, I thought some other people may find it useful, so I threw it up on google code here: http://code.google.com/p/torrent-bot/
I have tested it against the transmission-daemon,version 1.5, running on linux, it may work against 1.4, but I am not sure.

Re: Manage Transmission Through MSN Messenger

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:25 am
by iyttahmimsyafu
Nice script :)
I tried 1.0.1 with the latest build of transmission.
The only problem is that it doesn't find any torrents, if I try the "overview" command; it'll tell me my stats but if I try either the "torrent:" or the "all torrents" command it'll say there's no torrents

Re: Manage Transmission Through MSN Messenger

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:13 pm
by Jordan
That is really a clever idea. Good work!

Re: Manage Transmission Through MSN Messenger

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:01 pm
by nate18
glad some other people find it useful! iyttahmimsyafu, I just got back from vacation, so I'll take a look at whats going on, I think maybe something might have changed in the json return value, and the script falls apart when it can find what it expects. So, I'll take a look and see what's going on, and probably improve the error handling while I'm at it. ;)

Re: Manage Transmission Through MSN Messenger

Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 5:31 pm
by jdarias
I hope you can fix it soon, this is exactly what i need! :)

Re: Manage Transmission Through MSN Messenger

Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 1:10 am
by nate18
Sorry it took so long, but I just checked in some code that should fix the problem. I have tested it on OSX with Transmission 1.61 and on Ubuntu 9.04 with Transmission 1.51, and all the commands work fine on both.

Re: Manage Transmission Through MSN Messenger

Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 5:00 am
by jdarias
Can't make it work. Every command i type is ignored, except help.