Transmission::RPC

A simplistic Transmission RPC client for Ruby. It implements part of RPC 1.7.x.

You can:

• Add a torrent by URL or file path
• Start a torrent
• Stop a torrent
• Get all torrents
• Delete torrents from Transmission and from disk

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'transmission-rpc'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install transmission-rpc

It depends on transmission-daemon. Install it from homebrew:

$ brew install transmission

transmission-daemon must be running, run it like so:

$ transmission-daemon

Usage

To add a torrent by URL or file path:

Transmission::RPC::Torrent + "http://example.com/url/to/torrent.torrent"

To start all torrents:

Transmission::RPC::Torrent.start!

To stop all torrents:

Transmission::RPC::Torrent.stop!

To get all torrents:

Transmission.torrents

To start a specific torrent:

Transmission.torrents.first.start!

To stop a specific torrent:

Transmission.torrents.first.stop!

To delete a torrent:

Transmission.torrents.first.delete!

To delete a torrent and delete the contents from disk:

Transmission.torrents.first.delete!(true)