Script to automatically add trackers from a list to all torrents in Transmission. This allows to get more peers to download/upload from/to.
Features:
- Download lists of trackers from any number of URLs and cache them locally. The cache will only be updated after the specified time passes (e.g. once a day)
- Check if trackers obtained from remote URLs are resolvable in DNS
- Load additional local tracker lists
- Remove duplicates so that only unique hosts and IPs are used: if two or more URLs point to the same hostname or the hostname resolves to the same IP - only one URL will be loaded
- Optionally filter torrents by status (seeding, stopped etc)
- Compare the current tracker list of a torrent with the required one and only update Transmission if they don't match
Tracker list format:
- One tracker URL per line
- Empty lines are ignored
- Only
http[s]://andudp://trackers are loaded (Transmission does not support WebSocket trackers AFAIK)
Requirements:
- Should work with both Python 2.7 and 3.x, although there may be problems with logging in Python2 due to different unicode handling, I don't want to fix that :)
- transmissionrpc Python module
Usage:
- Get transmissionrpc:
pip[3] install transmissionrpc(or using any other method) - Put the transmission-trackers.py script somewhere
- Make sure that the right Python interpreter is used (it's python3 by default)
- Adjust the host/port/credentials to access the Transmission RPC inside the script
- Add your URLs and local files to the appropriate lists in the script
- Adjust other parameters if needed (see comments)
- Make the script run by cron e.g. every minute
- You're done
Cron Setup:
- Open Crontab using crontab -e
- For Updating Trackers to Every New Torrent Every 15 Minutes Add: */15 * * * * /usr/bin/sh [path]]/transmission-trackers-auto-cron.sh
- Modify the transmission-trackers-auto.sh file as per your needs. We have provided two options, transmission-daemon & docker