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Feature request: RPC support

Open mfischer-zd opened this issue 10 years ago • 3 comments

It'd be really nice to be able to control the program remotely via RPC of some sort (JSON-RPC over WebSocket, for instance). Methods and features that would be handy are:

  • add a .torrent file, either directly (as an encoded argument) or via a URL
  • remove a torrent from the downloads/seeds
  • get notified when download is complete and seeding
  • check transfer status

mfischer-zd avatar Mar 21 '15 17:03 mfischer-zd

I am working on something along those lines; specifically an API for controlling Taipei-Torrent's behaviour, and two modules that use said API:

  1. A toy webgui using gowut (https://code.google.com/p/gowut/),
  2. A simple RPC server & client pair that connect using encryption and authentication (aes-gcm).

I've been a bit distracted with other bugs/features, but this is definitely my next area of focus once I get the multiple-torrents branch stable enough to merge into master.

Zilog8 avatar Mar 26 '15 08:03 Zilog8

You might want to follow in the footsteps of aria2 (http://aria2.sourceforge.net/) when implementing this feature. We found its RPC implementation to be pretty well designed. (cc @tatsuhiro-t)

mfischer-zd avatar Mar 26 '15 09:03 mfischer-zd

Also of interest is the transmission RPC. There's a range of stable transmission clients already (cli, curses, graphical and web although I haven't tested it yet)

rakoo avatar Apr 21 '15 23:04 rakoo