Hey folks,

My advanced apologies if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find anything on through searches (although I'm not sure I was using the proper terms).

I just switched my DLNA media server from Windows to Ubuntu 10.04 (my first serious linux install), and after some second thoughts and apprehension, I've decided I like the setup. However, I'm trying to duplicate the functionality of my old setup, and have run into a few walls (most of which I've managed to find workarounds).

The one big piece of the puzzle I'm missing is the ability to automatically, remotely add torrents. I used to use either a firefox extention or a seperate program to add torrents from other pc's, either on the local network or away.

My question, is there anything similar for ktorrent? I know I can add a link to the webui, but I'd like to be able to do that automatically.

Thanks in advance.

Use the webinterface, it should be pretty easy to write a script with does the following http request:

http://<host>:<port>/action?load_torrent=<url>

You could also make use of ssh:

ssh user@host 'DISPLAY=:0 ktorrent --silent <url>'