On: The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents

[icebraining]

So, what if you don't run the client on the same machine you're browsing TPB with, like people who have torrent enabled routers or VPS/seedboxes? I suppose you can copy-paste the link to your client, but clients which had automatic pick-up of .torrent files (like rtorrent) were nice because you could just drop them on a remote directory and have them be downloaded.

I wonder if I could write a small application just to download the torrent file from the magnet link/DHT to copy it to the remote server afterwards.

[botker → icebraining]

See the shell script in the top comment here: http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ticket/2100

I tested it, and it works as advertised.

For firefox integration, in about:config create a new boolean as:

  network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet := false

For chromium integration, you need to use Xdg-open.

[ben0x539 → icebraining]

I suspect it'll be easier to patch the torrent client to accept magnet links fed through a named pipe, or in a text file in the drop-off directory, if it already supports magnet links.

[sliverstorm → icebraining]

Why not set up an email fetch service on the remote box, and email magnet links? Then just throw together a wrapper that looks for magnet links in new email. Viola!