some more options for transmission-remote

kanin · Post by **kanin** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 10:06 am

I have set up a script that will auto-load torrents from a set of directories, and set up folders for stats for that particular torrent(through another script)

I have it working well and all, but it is not really efficient because of all the needed parsing of transmission-remote -l.

What I am requesting is the option of deciding what transmission-remote should output via arguments.

I made an external program that I run with a script. here is some sample code:

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/usr/bin/transmission-remote -l > /tmp/transmission.info
DONE=   `/home/transmission/trans_mkstatus "$TORRENTNAME" "%done" < /tmp/transmission.info`
RATIO=  `/home/transmission/trans_mkstatus "$TORRENTNAME" "%ratio" < /tmp/transmission.info`
ETA=      `/home/transmission/trans_mkstatus "$TORRENTNAME" "%eta" < /tmp/transmission.info`
STATUS=`/home/transmission/trans_mkstatus "$TORRENTNAME" "%status" < /tmp/transmission.info`
NAME=   `/home/transmission/trans_mkstatus "$TORRENTNAME" "%name" < /tmp/transmission.info`

What I think would be optimal is if you added this small feature:
/usr/bin/transmission-remote -t $TORRENTNAME -l "%id %done whateverwhatever"
So.. -t should work on both ID and the torrentname, and should be able to output just exactly the info you need.

In my example script I would want to use it like this:

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DONE=   `/usr/bin/transmission-remote -t "$TORRENTNAME" -l "%done"`
RATIO=  `/usr/bin/transmission-remote -t "$TORRENTNAME" -l "%ratio"`
ETA=      `/usr/bin/transmission-remote -t "$TORRENTNAME" -l "%eta"`
STATUS=`/usr/bin/transmission-remote -t "$TORRENTNAME" -l "%status"`
NAME=   `/usr/bin/transmission-remote -t "$TORRENTNAME" -l "%name"`

The problem with current output is the difficulty of parsing(I solved that by writing a c program to reformat the whole output) and finding the correct torrent (since the name listed is not the same as the actual torrent filename)

Even if you are not willing to make this exactly, please atleast give us the option to select what torrents to list when using -l . preferably by using torrentname as input.

some examples of my idea..:

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$ transmission-remote -t "MGMT - Oracular Spectacular [2008].2134569aac5b754f.torrent" -l
ID     Done       Have  ETA           Up    Down  Ratio  Status       Name
   4    87%    67.6 MB  17 min       0.0     6.7   0.00  Downloading  MGMT - Oracular Spectacular [2008]

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$ transmission-remote -t "MGMT - Oracular Spectacular [2008].2134569aac5b754f.torrent" -l %eta
17 min
$ transmission-remote -t "MGMT - Oracular Spectacular [2008].2134569aac5b754f.torrent" -l %name
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular [2008]

Thanks for reading. Hope you will consider this.

EDIT: Just wanted to add one thing..: When using the -l %some_stat please print the true value. Like. %eta would be '1020' (seconds) and have would be '70883737' (bytes)
That will make things a whole lot easyer when wanting to make stats out of the output.
I myself update folder names to look like this: [####46%][NAME](ETA||STATUS) every minute.