Comments on: Email Activated Torrent Downloader

By: Eli

Eli — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:48:01 +0000

This is a great tip man….thanks a lot. I’ve been getting torrents downloading by sending them from school, work, friends houses, etc. Again, thanks.

By: Peabody

Peabody — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 03:09:43 +0000

I’ve tried this with Acquisition but so far, have not been able to get it to work. Now, the maker of Acquisition has come out with Xtorrent specifically for finding and downloading torrents, and it rocks! You can set it to monitor a folder on your Mac for torrent files and it will automatically begin downloading them as soon as they appear in the folder (and delete the original “.torrent”s if you like).

My question is, does anyone know how to modify this script so that it simply downloads torrent attachments from Mail to the Desktop? I’d be much obliged for such an answer.

By: theboyk

theboyk — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:08:47 +0000

Just out of curiousity â€” I would love to be able to use this script so I can set it up at home and send torrents home from work so they start running before I actually get home. My question though â€” will there be any reference to my work IP etc. if I download the .torrent file from work and send it home for downloading (via this script)?
k.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 09:47:45 +0000

Couldn’t get it to work in Azureus for some reason (probably me screwing something up, I’ve run out of patience with that app), but it definitely works in Transmission.

Just remember to edit the script to change the filename to your own Desktop path, and change the app name to Transmission (obviously).

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 09:47:02 +0000

Couldn’t get it to work in Azureus for some reason (probably me screwing something up, I’ve run out of patience with that app), but it definitely works in Transmission.

Just remember to edit the script to change the filename to your own Desktop path, and change the app name to Transmission (obviously).

By: Steven Chang

Steven Chang — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 04:47:58 +0000

How about an addition to the script to hide Azureus/Transmission?

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:42:31 +0000

Transmission works fine. Had to restart and repair permissions.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:19:32 +0000

I can’t get it to work with Transmission. I get the beep, so the rule is functioning. I don’t see the torrent on the desktop. Initially, when opening the script, Script Editor asked to locate Azureus. I browsed to Transmission and selected. The script opened with Transmission replacing Azureus. Changed the save location to my user name. Thoughts?

By: iSilver

iSilver — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:24:28 +0000

I have got the rule set up, the script creates the torrent file and puts it on the desktop but azureus doesn’t actually open it.

I have discovered that if i double-click a torrent file in the finder it brings azureus to the front but doesn’t load the torrent, so that’s probably why the rule doesn’t work.

Anybody know why is this so, can others double-click a torrent to launch it?

By: Matt Comi

Matt Comi — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:06:04 +0000

Hi,

I can think of a couple of reasons, first up, did you follow the last step in the instructions? You have to make sure that Azureus will save to a default data directory otherwise it will display a dialog when you double click the torrent rather that immediately downloading it.

Secondly, if the server requires a login, ensure that you are logged in from the machine that is running Azureus.

Hope this helps,

Matt.