Sunday, May 16, 2021

Downloading torrent using command line

To download torrents using a command line, the easiest tool to use is transmission-cli. This tool is available in debian based distro and redhat based distro alike.

To use this tool, you have to install it first.

In debian based distro:

$ sudo apt install transmission-cli -y

In redhat based distro:

$ sudo yum install transmission-cli -y 

To use it with torrent file, first download the torrent file, and then run transmission-cli against the file

$ wget https://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04/ubuntu-20.04.2-live-server-amd64.iso.torrent

$ transmission-cli ubuntu-20.04.2-live-server-amd64.iso.torrent


To use it with magnet link, just run transmission-cli against the magnet link

$ transmission-cli magnet:?xt=urn:btih:eb6354d8d9b9427458af8bee90457101a4c1e8e3&dn=archlinux-2021.05.01-x86_64.iso


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