Command line torrent

They say this version is only for 32bit linux but I used it on my 64bit server and I didn't experienced any problems. Another option is rtorrent, a CLI application.

It's not user-friendly and I had problems with different torrent files. You can install it from repositories:. There are some torrent clients that you can run on a headless server. I dunno if you can control them via console, but the following clients are controllable via web interface:. Torrentflux is available in the Ubuntu repositories, but I think in a quite outdated version now. Deluge can be obtained from the getdeb repositories.

It also has a GUI client software that you could run from your desktop and connect to the "headless client" running on your server to control it. Or you could run install deluge torrent , run it as a daemon, and access it through Web Interface or remote apps eg. Transdroid on Android. Ubuntu Community Ask! Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.

Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Torrent client for the command-line? Asked 10 years, 10 months ago. Active 4 years, 3 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Wolfy Wolfy 7, 12 12 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 41 41 bronze badges. Why do you want a cli torrent client?

Do you just prefer cli? Do you need it for a headless server? Do you need to pass it commands via bash script? I need cli for headless server. EliahKagan my question was asked Mar 11, How is my a duplicate? Wolfy Although newer questions are often closed as duplicates of older ones especially when the newer one is unanswered , the relative ages of the questions isn't really, by itself, a factor. I think either this or that question would be okay as the main question.

I think that one has an overall higher quality of answers, so I picked it as the master when voting to close. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Deluge is controllable by gui, web, and console. Improve this answer. After installing can't start on Debian. VitalyZdanevich try ubuntu? I think the default torrent client transmission itself has a cli interface and can be installed with sudo apt-get install transmission-cli. Another vote for transmission. Update via github. Limited to a single torrent at a time, transmission-cli is deprecated and exists primarily to support older hardware dependent upon it.

In almost all instances, transmission-remote should be used instead. Simon Richter Simon Richter 3, 16 16 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. Create a free Team What is Teams?

Learn more. Asked 11 years, 8 months ago. Active 2 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 23k times. I just wonder Is there any command line torrent client? Like wget downloader. Improve this question. Hennes Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. David Spillett David Spillett Is there a way to speed it up?

Shouldn't be it faster.. Creating a new process is an expensive procedure in Windows compared to Unix-a-like OSs which is part of the reason why threading is a far more popular concurrency model under Windows so this is going to be slower under cygwin then Linux even without accounting for any OS call translation layer employed by the cygwin libraries.

Shiki Cygwin has always been super slow. Ah thanks for the info,explanation. Wanted to use mcabber for example which is a great tool. Show 3 more comments. Duijf 4 4 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Carl Carl 11 1 1 bronze badge. And I know they have a Windows client, but its newish. It might have a command line interface. It's worth checking out. Transmission does have a CLI version trac. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.