Automate/script complicated download thingy

jamerson · Post by **jamerson** » 06 Mar 2007, 16:28

Hi!

I'm so sorry about the worthless subject line. Couldn't seem to get it boiled down.

Anyway. Some sites that I visit does not have .torrent files to download ergo no copy/paste url into download manager.

The .torrent is generated when I download it.

My solution right now is that I "download" the .torrent file and then put it on my bubba in one of my www-root-folders and then write http://domain.tld/whatever.torrent into DL.

This of course works, but can someone think of a smart way to automate this?

Post by **tor** » 06 Mar 2007, 16:42

Hi Jamerson,

First of, have you tried to paste the URL anyway? The Download manager/ftd should be smart enough to figure it out anyway even if the URL doesn't end in .torrent. It can in some cases fail anyway, most often when webpagebuilders think they are clever and hide the actual URL in a javascript or something like that.

If it still doesnt work and you dont mind, we are interrested in the web site that doesn't work. (You can send the link privately if you prefer that.)

/Tor

bubbalibre · Post by **bubbalibre** » 06 Mar 2007, 18:21

Hello,

I have the same problem with some private torrent's sites. You can get the torrents only once registered.

It seems normal not to be able to download them directly from the bubba.

I'm using the same "solution" than jamerson, but if you have another simpler one, I take it !

Post by **tor** » 07 Mar 2007, 02:04

Hi again,

A question regarding private trackers. How do one solve that with other torrent clients? Is it possible?

/Tor

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » 07 Mar 2007, 11:28

I noticed this problem before I setup torrentflux, I now download the .torrent and upload using the web interface provided with that.

I'm a member of two private torrent sites:
http://www.demonoid.com/
http://oink.me.uk/

Using the standard bubba torrent client pasting links from demonoid worked fine but not with oink, if I remember correctly.

bubbalibre · Post by **bubbalibre** » 07 Mar 2007, 11:43

I don't know if jameson's problem concerns private trackers too.

With these trackers, I have to download the torrent file before I can put it in my client. It's easier than with the Bubba because of the drag'n drop.

I'm using GNU/Linux and I tried lots of bitorrent clients, but I guess it's the same with Windows.

bjorn · Post by **bjorn** » 07 Mar 2007, 13:51

private torrent trackers commonly requires you to have an auth-cookie set and associated with your connection, and most torrents are marked as "private" and do not allow trackerless seeding.

some clients (like BitComnet i think) ignored this setting in early versions, and that client is as a result banned from many private trackers...

it could most likely be set "manually" with wget's "--load-cookies" option or with elinks perhaps... havn't tried it.

Torrentflux has options to use such cookies as well

/Bjorn