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Starting bittorrent downloads remotely from the iPhone
I like Mac OS X Hints a lot, although I will admit that most of the hints they post just aren't for me-- either they're for things that I just don't have a need to do, or they're for things I already figured out a solution for on my own. But lately, I've been trying to figure out if there was a way to start up bittorrent downloads from my iPhone (we've already been able to control clients remotely, but getting the torrent file was the hard part). And so I was ecstatic to see this tip from Whosawhatsis-- with just a little tweaking, you can install a bookmarklet on the iPhone and a script on a PHP server that will send a URL from the iPhone to the server, and then download that URL directly into a folder that a bittorrent client (Transmission is used in the example) will monitor to download the torrent.Pretty slick. Whosa runs this on a separate server, but while I'd have to read up on exactly how to do it (or maybe our commenters could jump in with suggestions), I'm sure that it wouldn't be too hard to enable a Mac to run a PHP script when asked remotely. Get that running, make the necessary modifications in Who's script, and bingo, you should be able to click the bookmark and then the link on your iPhone, and have the torrent file show up in your Mac, ready for a bittorrent client to grab it immediately.
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Ayush Saran said 5:00PM on 12-28-2007
Why not just use uTorrent WebUI running under Parallels ?
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Dan Neuman said 5:04PM on 12-28-2007
Try this hint:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060612193639842
to use AppleScript to respond to an e-mail to auto-start torrent downloads. That way you won't need a PHP server running.
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Waldorf said 5:13PM on 12-28-2007
Why not use the Clutch (http://www.clutchbt.com) bittorrent web interface? Unofficially, but coming very soon, Clutch will integrate with Transmission (currently possible with a minimal hack).
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Rainer said 10:58AM on 12-29-2007
Waldorf, how do you do this minimal hack?
fR00r said 6:15PM on 12-28-2007
I am currently doing this on my windows machine (It's the always on in the house :P ) but i think it'll be the same on a mac ..
First, I installed Azureus, then added the webUI plug-in. you can manage or add torrent urls and it'll automatically start (if you're in the same network as the server of course).
The next thing is if you want to use the webUI from anywhere, I signed up with DYNdns (www.dindns.com) and added the address to my modem. and now i can access the webui from anywhere using a wifi or EDGE ..
You also add a password for more security :)
Hope this helps ..
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Mag said 7:24PM on 12-28-2007
If you could do it with Usenet, then it would be fun...
http://www.jonsthoughtsoneverything.com/2007/07/25/its-about-the-remoting-stupid/
Give me, give me...
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Luigi193 said 11:11PM on 12-28-2007
Whacha downloading Mike?
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Mike Schramm said 9:00PM on 12-30-2007
All legal torrents, officer!
Although a friend of mine just got The National and the Michael Showalter album off of Pirate Bay. He's a bad person, that friend of mine.
Waldorf said 5:28PM on 12-29-2007
Rainer, to integrate Clutch with Transmission see: http://transmission.m0k.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3441
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