node-rtorrent

control rtorrent with your nodejs project !

Install rtorrent

check in config file (/home/user/.rtorrent.rc) that this line exist :

scgi_port = 127.0.0.1:5000

now rtorrent is available (only from localhost) with scgi on :

127.0.0.1:5000/

set xmlrpc connexion mode

open apache config file and add :

SCGIMount /RPC2 127.0.0.1:5000
<Location "/RPC2">
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Rtorrent"
    AuthUserFile /home/www-data/.rtorrent-htpasswd
    Require valid-user
</Location>

create a password file

htpasswd -cb /home/www-data/.rtorrent-htpasswd user password

restart apache

apachectl restart

now rtorrent is available with xmlrpc on

user:password@server:80/RPC2

Install

npm install node-rtorrent

Example

var Rtorrent = require ('node-rtorrent');

var rtorrent = new Rtorrent({
    mode: 'xmlrpc',
    host: 'yourserver',
    port: 80,
    path: '/RPC2'
    user: 'bob'
    pass: 'marley'
});

rtorrent.getAll(function (err, data) {
    if (err) return console.log('err: ', err);

    console.log(data);
    // data is : {torrents: [{hash: 'XXXXXX', name: 'ubuntu.iso', path: '/xxx', bitfield: ......... }, {...}], up_total: ...}
});

rtorrent.start('XXXXXXXX', function (err, data) {
    if (err) return console.log('err: ', err);

    console.log(data);
});

rtorrent.loadLink(...

rtorrent.loadFile(...

and more : Click here !

use from command line

USAGE: node-rtorrent cmd ...

Exemples:
    node-rtorrent get download_list
    node-rtorrent get d.multicall main d.name= d.get_base_path
    node-rtorrent get t.multicall XXXXXXX t.id= t.url=
    node-rtorrent get load "magnet:?xt=urn:xxxx"
    node-rtorrent get load "http://xxx/xxx.torrent"
    node-rtorrent getAll