PluginAutotools

Plugin Auto Tools

Description

The plugin provides some possibilities on automation. Following functions are realized for now:

• Auto Label automatic creation of labels at addition of new torrent through the web interface.
• Auto Move automatic transferring of torrent data files to other directory on downloading completion.
• Auto Watch automatic adding torrents to rtorrent via nested set of watch directories.

Auto Label

Label will be created automatically, if:

• Label is created by template, that can be set in Autotools options page.
• Label is created if label input field in add torrent dialogue is empty.

Template variables:

• {DIR}: If there is a variable directory =/usr/p2p/downloads in rtorrent.rc And new torrent is saved as /usr/p2p/downloads/Video/DVD/movie.avi, This variable will be Video/DVD.

• {TRACKER}: This variable will be set to tracker name.

• {NOW}: This variable will be set to the current date using strftime() function. Default format is %Y-%m-%d. It is possible to set custom format using syntax: {NOW[:<format>]}, for example: {NOW:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M}.

Auto Move

The downloaded torrent data files are transferred to the directory, which is set in configuration, with the same directory structure relative to directory specified in variable directory of rtorrent.rc file and then started for seeding.

For example: If there is a variable directory =/usr/p2p/downloads in rtorrent.rc And /media/p2p is set as the directory for ready downloads, The files downloaded to /usr/p2p/downloads/Video/Movie/*.avi will be moved to /media/p2p/Video/Movie/*.avi on downloading completion.

There was an idea to use this plugin in case when the directory for ready downloads was a mounted resource such as an other disk or SMB share with common access.

After file transfer the plugin searches for file .mailto in directories, from /media/p2p/Video/Movie/ downto /media/p2p/. If this file is found, e-mail will be sent according to information from this file. Sample file is:

TO : [email protected]
FROM : Torrent Downloader<[email protected]>
SUBJECT : Torrent "{TORRENT}" is finished!
Hello, User!

  Requested torrent

  "{TORRENT}"

  was successifully downloaded.

Auto Watch

.torrent files are placed in nested subdirectories of a desired structure on some base directory. This base directory can be set in the plugin settings.

This works very much like normal watch directories in rtorrent, except in a nested hierarchy. Torrents added in this way, will be downloaded to a corresponding directory in the path of whatever dir you've set in rtorrent.rc

With this, you can create a system of watch directories to drop .torrent files into.

Some features

• The plugin handle correctly a situation with one data directory for several torrents - files will be moved according to torrent file list, instead of simple directory moving.
• If there are files with the same names, as for completed torrent, in the directory for ready downloads, they will be overwritten.
• The plugin is integrated with rtorrent at web interface loading. The plugin will not reintegrate with rtorrent after rtorrent restart until web interface reloading. To avoid it, you may add a specific line to rtorrent configuration file (see How to start plugins with rtorrent for details)
• For comfortable directory choice on the host for completed downloads it is recommended to install the service plugin _getdir. There will be a possibility of navigation on host file system.