Transmission

Passes the url of an entry to Transmission bittorrent client. Can also pass magnet links to Transmission.

This plugin requires the transmissionrpc library. To install it, run:

easy_install transmissionrpc

You may be required to upgrade transmissionrpc after upgrading transmission, for that just add --upgrade to the previous command.

Example:

transmission:
  host: localhost
  port: 9091
  username: myusername
  password: mypassword

If you're having authentication issues, see ticket ticket:1066#comment:1 if it helps (feel free to improve this wiki page). The username and password can be set from the GUI, but if you're using the headless version you must change it in /home/<user>/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json. First stop transmissiond, edit settings.json and enter a password in clear text; it will be overwritten with its hash once transmissiond is started again.

Also make sure that rpc-whitelist isn't preventing flexget from connecting to localhost or whatever IP address it's using. The settings below will permit clients connecting from localhost and 192.168.*.*, assuming they also provide the correct credentials, it will also deny all other IP ranges:

    ...
    "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,192.168.*.*",
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
    ...

Options

Name	Info	Description
host	Text	Where transmission is listening (default: localhost)
port	Number	Connected port (default: 9091)
netrc	File
username	Text
password	Text
path	Directory	Destination for downloaded file(s). Supports jinja replacement.
addpaused	[Yes|No]
bandwidthpriority	[-1,0,1]
honourlimits	[Yes|No]
maxconnections	Number
maxupspeed	Number
maxdownspeed	Number
ratio	Decimal	The ratio to stop seeding at (-1 means infinite)
removewhendone	[Yes|No]	Removes ALL stopped or incomplete paused Torrents in the Transmission client, not just the ones added in by FlexGet, if the seed ratio is higher than the global upload ratio. (Caution, will remove almost all all non-active torrents!)
enabled	[Yes|No]	Plugin enabled (Default: Yes)

To use all default values use this config form:

transmission: yes

Advanced

Transmission plugin will also utilize options from entry fields. This allows more refined configuration per entry field selection.

Here is an example task using the series plugin:

series:
  settings:
    720p:
      set:
        path: /media/diska/incomplete/
        label: 720p
    hdtv:
      set:
        path: /media/diskb/incomplete/
        label: tv
  720p:
    - name 1
    - name 2
  hdtv:
    - name 3
    - name 4:
        set:
          ratio: 5.0
          addpaused: yes
transmission:
  host: localhost
  port: 9091
  username: myusername
  password: mypassword

Transmission Tips

After r1277 you can simply use the removewhendone option

Transmission annoyingly does not have any way to easily remove completed torrents from it's UI. Luckily if you have transmission-remote installed you can script it.

Create an executable script named: transmission-cleanup.sh:

transmission-remote -l  | grep 100% | grep Done | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -n 1 -J % ./transmission-remote -t % -r

Note: if your transmission is username/password protected add a --auth <user>:<password> to the above calls to transmission-remote.

Add this script to your crontab.