torctl

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torctl

torctl is a command-line utility for controlling remote Torrent clients (Transmission, qBittorrent, Deluge, rTorrent).

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Overview

torctl provides a unified command-line tool for controlling remote torrent clients. Inspired by Git, kubectl, and other modern command-line tools, torctl provides a standard and easy way to manage torrents from the command-line. The torctl project also provides Go client packages for each of the clients supported, in a standard Go-idiomatic fashion.

Installing

torctl can be installed via Release, via Homebrew, via Scoop or via Go:

Installing via Release

1. Download a release for your platform
2. Extract the torctl or torctl.exe file from the .tar.bz2 or .zip file
3. Move the extracted executable to somewhere on your $PATH (macOS/Linux) or %PATH% (Windows)

Installing via Homebrew (macOS)

torctl is available in the kenshaw/kenshaw tap, and can be installed in the usual way with the brew command:

# add tap
$ brew tap kenshaw/kenshaw

# install torctl
$ brew install torctl

Installing via Scoop (Windows)

torctl can be installed using Scoop:

# install scoop if not already installed
iex (new-object net.webclient).downloadstring('https://get.scoop.sh')

scoop install torctl

Installing via Go

torctl can be installed in the usual Go fashion:

# install torctl
$ go get -u github.com/kenshaw/torctl

Documentation

Overview

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