John Mee - Some programmer in Sydney

Problem

You’re using transmission remotely and you don’t want to download every file in a particular torrent, just some of the files in it. (V1.34 web interface doesn’t implement this functionality).

Solution

Use transmission-remote to view and (de)select specific files.

Method

Show me the running torrents (and your id numbers for them)

transmission-remote -l

Show me the files in torrent 2 (and your id numbers for them)

transmission-remote -t 2 -f

Don’t download any of the files in torrent 2

transmission-remote -t 2 -G all

Download files 1 and 3 in torrent 2

transmission-remote -t 2 -g 1,3

See the transmission-remote man page for more detail.

Example

john@laptop:~$ transmission-remote -l
ID Done ETA Up Down Ratio Status Name
2 0% 17 hrs 0.0 15.6 0.0 Downloading Neighbours
john@laptop:~$ transmission-remote -t 2 -f
Neighbours (318 files):
# Done Priority Get Size Name
1: 0% Normal Yes 174.8 MB Neighbours/Pilot - [DVD]/001 - The Neighbours Chronicles - [DVD].avi
2: 0% Normal Yes 174.9 MB Neighbours/Season 1 - [DVD]/002 - The Stakeout - [DVD].avi
3: 0% Normal Yes 174.9 MB Neighbours/Season 1 - [DVD]/003 - The Robbery - [DVD].avi
john@laptop:~$ transmission-remote -t 2 -G all
localhost:9091 responded: “success”
john@laptop:~$ transmission-remote -t 2 -g 1,3
localhost:9091 responded: “success”
john@laptop:~$ transmission-remote -t 2 -f | head -7
Neighbours (318 files):
# Done Priority Get Size Name
1: 0% Normal Yes 174.8 MB Neighbours/Pilot - [DVD]/001 - The Neighbours Chronicles - [DVD].avi
2: 0% Normal No 174.9 MB Neighbours/Season 1 - [DVD]/002 - The Stakeout - [DVD].avi
3: 0% Normal Yes 174.9 MB Neighbours/Season 1 - [DVD]/003 - The Robbery - [DVD].avi
4: 0% Normal No 174.9 MB Neighbours/Season 1 - [DVD]/004 - Male Unbonding - [DVD].avi
5: 0% Normal No 174.8 MB Neighbours/Season 1 - [DVD]/005 - The Stock Tip - [DVD].avi