Few years ago, I made an IRC bot uTorrent remote controller for personal use. There was no such tool during that time (even now, I think) but I badly needed it. The ideal case where you need this tool is for example when you run your torrent client on an office/school computer and you don’t have port forwarding (or you don’t have a static private IP) and you cannot control your torrents using the remote control that ships with uTorrent but you want to control your torrents from home. Let’s say you want something downloaded and you are at home (or anywhere), so you just go to some IRC channel on some server (configurable) and talk to the bot. Current features are adding new torrent (via direct URL), pausing, stoping, deleting and viewing status. A typical command looks like the following:
!add hxxp://www.somesite.com/sometorrentfile.torrent
!stat
[1] Some.File 700MB 340KB/s 68%
[2] Some.Other.File 110MB 240KB/s 24%
Where the status is shown in different color background depending on the kind (stopped, paused, active). The bot joins the channel with random nick because when connection is interrupted for few minutes and comes back online, the bot cannot join using the old nick. This is because the server thinks the nick is in use until the PING request times out for the previous bot. In order to avoid this problem, each time the bot joins a channel, it uses a random nick. If the bot is in a bad connection, we might see many bots from the same machine but only one is active. The rest will leave the channel when they don’t respond to the server request in time.
Source code can be found here: https://github.com/biniamf/utorrent_irc_bot
Ciao!
Sounds good