NAME

Transmission::Client - Interface to Transmission

VERSION

0.0806

DESCRIPTION

Transmission::Client is the main module in a collection of modules to communicate with Transmission. Transmission is a cross-platform BitTorrent client that is:

• Easy

• Lean

• Native

• Powerful

• Free

If you want to communicate with "transmission-daemon", this is a module which can help you with that.

The documentation is half copy/paste from the Transmission RPC spec: https://trac.transmissionbt.com/browser/trunk/extras/rpc-spec.txt

This module differs from P2P::Transmission in (at least) two ways: This one use Moose and it won't die. The latter is especially annoying in the constructor.

SYNOPSIS

 use Transmission::Client;

 my $client = Transmission::Client->new;
 my $torrent_id = 2;
 my $data = base64_encoded_data();

 $client->add(metainfo => $data) or confess $client->error;
 $client->remove($torrent_id) or confess $client->error;

 for my $torrent (@{ $client->torrents }) {
    print $torrent->name, "\n";
    for my $file (@{ $torrent->files }) {
        print "> ", $file->name, "\n";
    }
 }

 print $client->session->download_dir, "\n";

FAULT HANDLING

In 0.06 Transmission::Client can be constructed with "autodie" set to true, to make this object confess instead of just setting "error". Example:

    my $client = Transmission::Client->new(autodie => 1);

    eval {
        $self->add(filename => 'foo.torrent');
    } or do {
        # add() failed...
    };

SEE ALSO

Transmission::AttributeRole Transmission::Session Transmission::Torrent Transmission::Utils

ATTRIBUTES

url

 $str = $self->url;

Returns an URL to where the Transmission rpc api is. Default value is "http://localhost:9091/transmission/rpc";

error

 $str = $self->error;
 

Returns the last error known to the object. All methods can return empty list in addition to what specified. Check this attribute if so happens.

Like "autodie"? Create your object with autodie set to true and this module will throw exceptions in addition to setting this variable.

username

 $str = $self->username;

Used to authenticate against Transmission.

password

 $str = $self->password;

Used to authenticate against Transmission.

timeout

 $int = $self->timeout;

Number of seconds to wait for RPC response.

session

 $session_obj = $self->session;
 $stats_obj = $self->stats;

Returns an instance of Transmission::Session. stats() is a proxy method on "session".

torrents

 $array_ref = $self->torrents;
 $self->clear_torrents;

Returns an array-ref of Transmission::Torrent objects. Default value is a full list of all known torrents, with as little data as possible read from Transmission. This means that each request on a attribute on an object will require a new request to Transmission. See "read_torrents" for more information.

version

 $str = $self->version;

Get Transmission version.

session_id

 $self->session_id($str);
 $str = $self->session_id;

The session ID used to communicate with Transmission.

METHODS

add

 $bool = $self->add(%args);

 key              | value type | description
 -----------------+------------+------------------------------------
 download_dir     | string     | path to download the torrent to
 filename         | string     | filename or URL of the .torrent file
 metainfo         | string     | torrent content
 paused           | boolean    | if true, don't start the torrent
 peer_limit       | number     | maximum number of peers

Either "filename" or "metainfo" MUST be included. All other arguments are optional.

See "3.4 Adding a torrent" from https://trac.transmissionbt.com/browser/trunk/extras/rpc-spec.txt

remove

 $bool = $self->remove(%args);

 key                | value type | description
 -------------------+------------+------------------------------------
 ids                | array      | torrent list, as described in 3.1
 delete_local_data  | boolean    | delete local data. (default: false)

ids can also be the string "all". ids is required.

See "3.4 Removing a torrent" from https://trac.transmissionbt.com/browser/trunk/extras/rpc-spec.txt

move

 $bool = $self->move(%args);


 string      | value type | description
 ------------+------------+------------------------------------
 ids         | array      | torrent list, as described in 3.1
 location    | string     | the new torrent location
 move        | boolean    | if true, move from previous location.
             |            | otherwise, search "location" for files

ids can also be the string "all". ids and location is required.

See "3.5 moving a torrent" from https://trac.transmissionbt.com/browser/trunk/extras/rpc-spec.txt

start

 $bool = $self->start($ids);

Will start one or more torrents. $ids can be a single int, an array of ints or the string "all".

stop

 $bool = $self->stop($ids);

Will stop one or more torrents. $ids can be a single int, an array of ints or the string "all".

verify

 $bool = $self->stop($ids);

Will verify one or more torrents. $ids can be a single int, an array of ints or the string "all".

read_torrents

 @list = $self->read_torrents(%args);
 $array_ref = $self->read_torrents(%args);

 key         | value type | description
 ------------+------------+------------------------------------
 ids         | array      | optional torrent list, as described in 3.1.
 lazy_read   |            | will create objects with as little data as possible.

List context

Returns a list of Transmission::Torrent objects and sets the "torrents" attribute.

Scalar context

Returns an array-ref of Transmission::Torrent.

rpc

 $any = $self->rpc($method, %args);

Communicate with backend. This methods is meant for internal use.

read_all

 1 == $self->read_all;

This method will try to populate ALL torrent, session and stats information, using three requests.

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

COPYRIGHT AND AUTHORS

Copyright 2009-2019 by Transmission::Client contributors

See git log --format="%aN <%aE>" | sort | uniq in the git repository for the reference list of contributors.

CONTRIBUTORS

• Jan Henning Thorsen (original author)

• Olof Johansson (current maintainer)

• Andrew Fresh

• Yanick Champoux

cpanm Transmission::Client

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Transmission::Client