Telegram Torrent Bot

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A telegram bot implementation for torrents search and download. You can run the bot on your home network server, and watch downloaded movies using Kodi or share them via DLNA.

DISCLAIMER: Please be aware that some of the materials you can get access to by means of this software might be subjects to copyright laws. Please use this software only for lawful purposes. The author of the software isn't responsible for any violations.

Installation

Ubuntu PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fertkir/tg-torrent-bot
sudo apt update
sudo apt install tg-torrent-bot

You will be asked for:

• a bot token (take it from @BotFather)
• rutracker login/password
• path to folder where bot will put .torrent files, e.g. /home/<youruser>/Torrents

Once you complete the setup, the bot will run as a systemd-service. Now give the bot permission to write .torrent files to the folder you provided:

mkdir -p /home/<youruser>/Torrents
sudo chown <youruser>:tg-torrent-bot /home/<youruser>/Torrents

Integration with Transmission

Install transmission-daemon, if not installed:

sudo apt install transmission-daemon

Stop the transmission-daemon and edit its settings:

sudo systemctl stop transmission-daemon.service
sudo vim /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

Make sure settings.json contains these settings:

    "script-torrent-done-enabled": true,
    "script-torrent-done-filename": "/usr/bin/tg-torrent-bot",
    "watch-dir": "/home/<youruser>/Torrents",
    "watch-dir-enabled": true

where /home/<youruser>/Torrents is a .torrent files directory which you've set during installation.

Start the transmission-daemon:

sudo systemctl start transmission-daemon.service

Build

sudo apt install gnupg dput dh-make devscripts lintian git git-buildpackage
git clone https://github.com/fertkir/tg-torrent-bot
cd tg-torrent-bot
make build-deb