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For automation software, transmission (BitTorrent-client written in python, slow) seems to be the standard.

If it could offer a transmission-compatible API-layer, I bet it would receive much more interest.

Edit: apparently not written in python. My bad.




Your wish is satisfied: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/broca


Nice. Appreciated. Now I clearly have a weekend project.

(Also, what great irony this proxy is written in python, eh?)


>(Also, what great irony this proxy is written in python, eh?)

It's written by a different person (me). Also Transmission is written in C FYI


Yes. That was what was ironic since I (wrongly) complained about slow python based software.


The first implementation of BitTorrent was written in Python. I don't think it has happened once since, not as any serious attempt anyway.

The clients that use Python today are not slow because they all use rasterbar-libtorrent as a C Python module that performs all of the heavy lifting.


What do I use it for? The README isn't very explanatory.


Transmission is written in c, not python.




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