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rTorrent Configuration Cookbook

This page is a collection of configuration recipes and a catalog of problem solutions that goes beyond rTorrent's common tasks wiki page.

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Configuration
    1. Basic configuration
    2. Advanced configuration
  3. User interface tweaks
    1. Internal UI tweaks
    2. UI tweaks relying on external programs
  4. Event handling
    1. Completion handling
  5. Torrent management
    1. Loading and keeping track of .torrent files
    2. Ratio handling
    3. Working with .torrent files
    4. Various manual management tasks
  6. Automation
    1. Automatic downloading
    2. Download item status management
    3. Data management
    4. Bandwidth management
    5. Generating (statistical) reports
  7. Other recipes

1. Introduction

The following sections contain lists of small recipes to tweak your rTorrent setup, organized by topics. Please use the existing format for all entries here, and the RecipeTemplate for the recipe pages themselves. Also start all recipe links with Recipe/ plus a meaningful description.

  • (!) You can add a new entry to a list, without providing the linked-to page, to express an interest into some topic. Just copy an existing entry, and change the title to describe what you're looking for.

Also see the list of rTorrent C++ Core Patches for extensions that require re-compiling rTorrent with code modifications.

2. Configuration

Recipes related to extending your configuration in general.

2.1. Basic configuration

2.2. Advanced configuration

3. User interface tweaks

3.1. Internal UI tweaks

3.2. UI tweaks relying on external programs

Terminal multiplexer magic:

The following rely on PyroScope being installed:

The following rely on the PyroScope rTorrent distribution (or its patches applied):

4. Event handling

Recipes that at their core use rTorrent event handling mechanism, i.e. usually invoke scripts triggered by an event.

4.1. Completion handling

5. Torrent management

5.1. Loading and keeping track of .torrent files

5.2. Ratio handling

5.3. Working with .torrent files

5.4. Various manual management tasks

6. Automation

These recipes show how to do things once, when setting them up, and then let the computer slave at it. After all, that's what they're there for. See also Event handling above for tasks that run when some distinct event occurs.

6.1. Automatic downloading

6.2. Download item status management

6.3. Data management

6.4. Bandwidth management

6.5. Generating (statistical) reports

The following rely on PyroScope being installed:

7. Other recipes

Here is anything that doesn't fit elsewhere.

last edited 2012-04-18 17:44:07 by pyroscope