transmission-cli

The transmission-cli program is a lightweight, command-line BitTorrent client with scripting capabilities.

The options are as follows:

-b --blocklist

Enable peer blocklists. Transmission understands the bluetack blocklist file format. New blocklists can be added by copying them into the config-dir's "blocklists" subdirectory.

-B --no-blocklist

Disable blocklists.

-d, --downlimit number

Set the maximum download speed in KB/s

-D, --no-downlimit

Don't limit the download speed

-er --encryption-required

Encrypt all peer connections.

-ep --encryption-preferred

Prefer encrypted peer connections.

-et --encryption-tolerated

Prefer unencrypted peer connections.

-f, --finish script

Set a script to run when the torrent finishes

-g, --config-dir directory

Where to look for configuration files. This can be used to swap between using the cli, daemon, gtk, and qt clients. See https://github.com/transmission/transmission/wiki/Configuration-Files for more information.

-h, --help

Prints a short usage summary.

-m, --portmap

Enable portmapping via NAT-PMP or UPnP

-M, --no-portmap

Disable portmapping

-n, --new sourcefile

Create torrent from the specified file or directory

-p, --port port

Set the port to listen for incoming peers. (Default: 51413)

-t, --tos tos

Set the peer socket TOS for local router-based traffic shaping. Valid values are

“default”, “lowcost”, “throughput”, “reliability”, “lowdelay”,

a decimal value 0-255 or a hexidecimal value 0x00-0xff)

-u, --uplimit number

Set the maximum upload speed in KB/s

-U, --no-uplimit

Don't limit the upload speed

-v, --verify

Verify the torrent's downloaded data.

-w, --download-dir directory

Where to save downloaded data.

In addition to these options, sending transmission-cli a SIGHUP signal will contact the tracker for more peers.

TRANSMISSION_HOME

Sets the default config-dir.

http_proxy

libcurl uses this environment variable when performing tracker announces.

~/.config/transmission

Directory where transmission-cli keeps torrent information for future seeding and resume operations.

The transmission-cli program was written by Eric Petit, Josh Elsasser, Charles Kerr, Mitchell Livingston, and Mike Gelfand.

transmission-create(1), transmission-daemon(1), transmission-edit(1), transmission-gtk(1), transmission-qt(1), transmission-remote(1), transmission-show(1)

https://transmissionbt.com/