Transmission - remove torrent when complete

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Hi

I was wondering if any osmc out there in user-land have implemented a script to automatically remove torrent after completion from transmission?

I’ve done Google searches and tried a few of their recommendations, however the 2 I tried didn’t work.

Can anyone make any recommendations based on experience?

Cheers, Geoff.

Transmission 2.84 (14307)

2

See the first post on that thread. Really good guide.

3

You can use this script, I made it several months ago.

#!/bin/bash

ELEMENTS=/home/osmc/Downloads/*
DOWN_DIR="/home/osmc/Downloads"
DEST_DIR="/media/2TB_EHDD/ToClassify"
DATE="$(date)"

echo "$DATE"

#Test if /media/2TB_EHDD/ToClassify exists
if [ ! -d "$DEST_DIR" ]; then
    echo "Destination directory does not exist. Check if external drive "2TB_EHDD" is plugged and running"
    echo "Aborting..."
    exit 1
fi

#Test if there are sub-dir in Downloads directory
subdircount=`find $DOWN_DIR -maxdepth 1 -type d | wc -l`

#Test if there are files in Downloads directory
if [ ! "$(ls -A $DOWN_DIR)" ]; then
    echo "$DOWN_DIR is empty and thus contains no file. Nothing to process...."
    echo "Exiting $0"
    exit 1
fi

#Loop over files and folders in Downloads directory
shopt -s nullglob
for f in $ELEMENTS
do
	#if it's a file
        if [ -f "$f" ]; then
	    EXT="${f##*.}"
            filename=$(basename "$f")
	    #if filename does not end with 'part'
	    if [ $EXT != "part" ]; then
	        echo "Processing file '$filename'. Moving "$filename" to $DEST_DIR"
   	        mv -vf "$f" $DEST_DIR
	    else
	        echo "$filename download still in progress... Waiting for completion to move file to $MEDIA"
	    fi
	fi        
	#if it's a directory (works only with a depth of 1)
	if [ -d "$f" ]; then
	    folder=$f
	    countfilewithpart=0
            shopt -s nullglob
	    
	    for file in "$folder"/*
	    do
               #test if it's a file
	       if [ -f "$file" ]; then
                   subext="${file##*.}"
		   subfilename=`basename "$file"`
                   if [ $subext == "part" ]; then
		       echo "$subfilename download still in progress... Waiting for completion..."
                       countfilewithpart=$((countfilewithpart+1))
		   fi 
	       fi	
	    done
            
	    #There is no file which filename ends with 'part'
	    if [ $countfilewithpart == 0 ]; then
	        echo "Processing directory $folder , moving to $DEST_DIR"
		mv -vf "$folder" $DEST_DIR
            fi
	fi
done

exit 0

It assumes you are using transmission, and it appends “.part” at the end of the file it is downloading.
It also moves all the finished downloads to “/media/2TB_EHDD/ToCLassify”.
Let me know if you need any help with it.

4

And this one simply deletes all the files ending with “.torrent” in ‘/home/osmc/Downloads’:

#!/bin/bash

cd /home/osmc/Downloads

counter=0
shopt -s nullglob
for f in *.torrent
do
	rm -rvf "${f}"
	counter=$((counter+1))
done

if [ $counter == 0 ]; then
	echo "No torrent file to delete"
	exit 1
else
	exit 0
fi

You just have to use crontab then to schedule the execution of the script.

5

thanks, looks good.

I just want to delete my .torrent files once torrent file and been completed. Looks like this script will actually move the payload as well.

(i’ve configured Transmission to put in-progress torrent in a directory called incomplete, transmission will move to default directory as per the .json file).

Could i use just the ‘delete torrent when done’ portion?

Cheers and thanks for offer of assitance. Geoff.

6

thanks again, I imagine this is close to what i need? I imagine it woudl delete torrent prior to completion in accordance with the cronjob schedule…

cheers, geoff.

7

If you have already configured transmission to auto move the files when the downloads are completed, then you just have to use the second script I posted.
Just change the path of the first command to the path where the ‘.torrent’ files are kept (i.e : cd /path/to/torrents_files).
Save the script in a .sh file (i.e : deleteTorrents.sh).

Don’t forget to make it executable : sudo chmod +x /path/to/deleteTorrents.sh

Then schedule the job with cron :

crontab -e

append this line at the end of the file, the script will run every 10 minutes with no output at all.
0,10 * * * * /path/to/deleteTorrents.sh >> /dev/null 2>&1

if you want some output (to see which files have been deleted)
0,10 * * * * /path/to/deleteTorrents.sh >> /path/to/outputFile

8

Yep, it will definitely do the job.