stig is a terminal and command-line interface for controlling the Transmission BitTorrent client. It provides both an interactive text interface and a command-oriented interface, allowing users to manage torrents from a terminal or incorporate Transmission operations into scripts. The application communicates with a running Transmission daemon rather than implementing its own BitTorrent engine.
The interface is built around a unified command system. Commands can be entered interactively, assigned to keyboard shortcuts, passed as command-line arguments or placed in configuration files. This approach allows the same operations to be used for everyday torrent management and automated administration. Advanced filtering expressions make it possible to select torrents according to transfer activity, file paths, ratios and other properties.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Interactive terminal interface and non-interactive command-line operation.
- Connect to local or remote Transmission daemons.
- Advanced filters for selecting torrents by status, size, transfer rates, seed counts and other attributes.
- Multiple tabs for displaying different torrent, peer and file lists.
- Customisable keyboard shortcuts for executing commands.
- Interactive command prompt with tab completion.
- Start, stop, add and remove torrents using commands or keyboard shortcuts.
- Sort torrent lists using configurable columns and ordering.
- Combine filtering expressions to perform operations on selected torrents.
- Customisable colour themes with support for 16-colour and 256-colour terminals.
- Configuration files containing commands executed automatically during startup.
- Scriptable command interface for automating torrent management.
- Configurable polling intervals for refreshing information from Transmission.
- Optional SOCKS and HTTP proxy support for remote connections.
- Built-in documentation accessible through the help command.
Website: github.com/rndusr/stig
Support:
Developer: rndusr and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
stig is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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