want to run a bittorrent client on a headless server. The server is a raspberry pi so it is limited a bit limited on resources.
Whats your favorite bittorrent client with a good command-line interface?
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I use rtorrent and it’s pretty straightforward.
Yeah, I especially like that there’s many ways to add torrents - you can have a web interface, you can connect it to transdrone and you can add torrents by dropping .torrent files in a directory
+1 for rtorrent
Unless you really want command line, both Deluge and Transmission can run in headless mode with various GUI options. I’m using this pre-packaged Deluge docker image which has a web based UI. I also tried headless Transmission, which can be used with either a web UI or remote client, but I thought both clients were a bit lacking in features.
transmission works fine for me, currently sitting at 46MB resident memory on my server, with lots of torrents loaded. The web interface is OK.
- https://github.com/transmission/transmission/blob/main/docs/Editing-Configuration-Files.md#options
- https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/transmission-cli/transmission-cli.1.en.html
- https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/transmission-daemon/transmission-daemon.1.en.html
- https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/transmission-cli/transmission-remote.1.en.html
