Transmission Shutdown Script for Multiple Torrents?

Question

I have written a shutdown script for transmission. Transmission calls the script after a torrent download finishes. The script runs perfectly on my machine (Ubuntu 11.04 & 12.04).

#!/bin/bash
sleep 300s

# default display on current host
DISPLAY=:0.0

# find out if monitor is on. Default timeout can be configured from screensaver/Power configuration.

STATUS=`xset -display $DISPLAY -q | grep 'Monitor'`
echo $STATUS

if [ "$STATUS" == "  Monitor is On" ]

###  Then check if  its still downloading a torrent. Couldn't figure out how.(May be) by monitoring network downstream activity? 

then

    notify-send "Downloads Complete" "Exiting  transmisssion now"
    pkill transmission

else
    notify-send "Downloads Complete" "Shutting Down Computer"
    dbus-send --session --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=org.gnome.SessionManager /org/gnome/SessionManager org.gnome.SessionManager.RequestShutdown

fi

exit 0

The problem is that when I'm downloading more than one file, when the first one finishes, transmission executes the script. I would like to do that but after all downloads are completed.

I want to put a 2nd check ( right after monitor check) if it is still downloading another torrent.

Is there any way to do this?

Accepted Answer

This information isn't passed to the scripts via environment variables, so you'll need to query Transmission's RPC interface. This is sometimes done by client libraries -- for example, a Python script could use python transmissionrpc. There are other interfaces like this listed at .

Here's a quick approach that will use transmission-remote to count the number of non-idle downloads:

transmission-remote yourhost:yourport -tall --info | grep "^  State:" | grep "Down" | wc --lines

If you want to include idle downloads too, you could try this:

transmission-remote yourhost:yourport -l | grep -v -e " 100% " -e "^Sum" -e "^ID" -e " Stopped " | wc --lines

Where "^ID" and "^Sum" strips the header and footer; " 100% " strips completed torrents; and " Stopped " strips out the incomplete-but-paused torrents. This approach isn't foolproof -- for example, a torrent named " 100% Stopped " would break it.

Answer 2

I created a better script(from user98677 advice) which takes advantage of transmission's RPC Interface.

Code:

Github Gist:

What it Does?

Pause or remove completed torrents after they are completed.
Send a pushover notification (with curl)[optional]
Send a twitter notification (requires twidge)[optional]
Suspend/Shutdown Computer OR leave it as it is.

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Setup

On Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin
sudo apt-get install transmission-cli

On Ubuntu >= 13.04 (For twitter notification):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:moorhen-core/moorhen-apps
sudo apt-get install twidge

For suspend action on non-Ubuntu distro (Ubuntu uses Upower) install powermanagement-interface package

sudo apt-get install powermanagement-interface

After installation:

Get the code from github-gist & save the file as trsm anywhere on your hard-drive. Make the file executable chmod a+x trsm .
Login to pushover & copy your user key. Paste it under user-key in the script.
If you want notifications send with nice looking application (transmission) icon just create a fake app in pushover with transmission icon & then copy the application key (API/Token key) & paste it under app-key in the script.
For twitter setup see twidge documentation.
Open transmission. Go to preference->web. Enable web client (default port 9091) & enable user authentication . Choose a username & password. Put that username & password in the script as username & password respectively.
Click open web-client to check if it is working properly.
Finally save the script & go to downloading tab (in transmission preference) & click call script when torrent is complete. Select the respective script.

Transmission Shutdown Script for Multiple Torrents?

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