Script to automatically add trackers from a list to all torrents in Transmission. This allows to get more peers to download/upload from/to.
Logic:
- Download & cache a list of trackers from a specified URL - currently tested only with ngosang/trackerslist. The cache will only be updated after the specified time passes (e.g. once a day)
- Fetch the tracker list of each torrent in Transmission and add all trackers from a downloaded list to each of the torrents.
- Optionally filter by torrent status (seeding, stopped etc)
- If the tracker list of the torrent is already up-to-date then nothing is done.
Tracker list format:
- One tracker URL per line
- Empty lines are ignored
- Only HTTP(S) and UDP trackers are loaded (Transmission does not support WebSocket trackers AFAIK)
Requirements:
- Should work with both Python 2 and 3, although there may be problems with logging in Python2 due to different unicode handling.
- transmissionrpc Python module.
Usage:
- Install transmissionrpc:
pip[3] install transmissionrpc - 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
- Make the script run by cron e.g. every minute
- You're done