Welcome to transmission-rpc’s documentation!

transmission-rpc is a python library to help your control your transmission deamon remotely.

quickstart

from transmission_rpc import client

torrent_url = 'http://releases.ubuntu.com/' + \
              '18.04/ubuntu-18.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent'
c = client.Client(address='localhost', port=9091,
                  user='transmission', password='password')
c.add_torrent(torrent_url)

from transmission_rpc import client

c = client.Client(address='localhost', port=9091,
                  user='transmission', password='password')

torrent_url = 'magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e84213a794f3ccd890382a54' + \
              'a64ca68b7e925433&dn=ubuntu-18.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso'
c.add_torrent(torrent_url)

you can also give a url starts with file://.

python2 support will be deprecated in future version.

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