Native bindings for libtransmission.
The npm package offers prebuilt binaries only for Linux x64 for now. Please refer to development for other systems.
const Transmission = require('transmission-native')
// Create a transmission instance with config folder and app name
const tr = new Transmission('./transmission', 'transmission')
const response = await tr.request({ method: 'session-get' })
// Add a new torrent
const message = {
method: 'torrent-add',
arguments: {
filename: 'https://webtorrent.io/torrents/tears-of-steel.torrent'
}
}
const reponse = await tr.request(message)
console.log(response)
// Save settings
tr.saveSettings()
// Later, when the process should be stopped, close the instance before
tr.close()Please refer to transmission's rpc-spec.md to find what methods and arguments are expected.
Create a transmission instance with a specific configuration folder and application name.
configDir is the path where settings and state of the transmission process will be loaded and stored.
Make a request to the transmission instance.
message is an object expected by transmissions's rpc-spec.md.
const message = { method: 'session-get' }
const reponse = await tr.request(message)
console.log(response)
// or as a callback
tr.request(message, (err, response) => {
if (err) throw err
console.log(response)
})Save transmission settings.
Save settings and close the session.
You'll need to install required build tools and libraries for your platform in order to compile libtransmission:
sudo dnf install cmake gcc-c++ libcurl-devel openssl-develvcpkg install curl --triplet=x64-windows-static
vcpkg install openssl --triplet=x64-windowsnpm run fetch-deps
# For Windows you need to set VCPKG_INSTALLATION_ROOT env variable
# $Env:VCPKG_INSTALLATION_ROOT="PATH_TO_VCPKG"
npm run build-transmission
npm install
npm test # optionalGPL-3.0