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[atruepretense]

Hi everyone, well i'm a newbie here so i'd like to start by saying that you people have a wonderful forum here, very informative and everyone seems really willing to help each other. :D

Now onto business.

I do a lot of torrenting, and it has gotten to such a large number that I now am running torrent on one of my racks to handle all downloads and seeds and such.

I usually just VNC into the server and add the .torrent files myself for what i'd like, problem is that sometimes i'm away from home and would like to start a torrent and would like to make it easier to add torrents. I was wondering what language i should use to do what im about to explain. I basically want to be able to write a program that when I type in a search query, it will poll a specific list of torrent sites I have chosen, and will then return a list with the site it's on, the seed and leech numbers, ratings (if available) or allow me to click on them and download the associated .torrent file and automatically add it to my list. I was wondering if this would be possible by writing a few HTML pages to all this. I know HTML is capable of this, but would it be easier with HTML or C++? I am very proficient in both and unfortunately have not had time to dedicate to learning another language. What do you think?

[so1i]

I don't think you could achieve this at all in just HTML, it's really just a formatting language, not something to actually carry out this kind of thing.

But really I'm not sure of what you should use. But I do know that if you wanted to use HTML you'd have to do some pretty hefty scripting along with it.

[atruepretense]

Jordan said:

You will not be able to do that with HTML. HTML is just a method to present data (like XML). For that, you'll need a server side language like PHP, Ruby, ASP, or any other alternative. It seems like a lot of work for convenience. If I were you, I'd find a torrent client that has a web interface (like transmission). Find the torrent you want by browsing to it manually and then paste the URL in transmission to fetch and start. :)

Alright, thanks for telling me. I know it seems like a lot of work but it wouldn't just be for me, i'd be willing to make it open source for others to have it too. And the thing is that, yes it is a lot of work if I would be doing it for adding torrents at home, and I do already have utorrent which supports remote administration but adding torrents on my iphone through VNC is a pain in the ass. It really doesn't seem like much work at all, it'll probably just be a pain in the ass. :P But yeah i understand exactly what you're getting at.

Oh and by the way, yeah I meant HTML page with scripts. Sorry, it was late when I posted it so I forgot. The scripts would do most of the work. The HTML would just be for the front end.

Edited by atruepretense, 25 October 2009 - 06:38 PM.
Forgot a detail.

[Orjan]

uTorrent also has a built in Web UI to load torrent files etc... if you are at windows world...

[so1i]

atruepretense said:

Oh and by the way, yeah I meant HTML page with scripts. Sorry, it was late when I posted it so I forgot. The scripts would do most of the work. The HTML would just be for the front end.

Then it really depends on what scripting languages you know, not the HTML. It would be quite in depth in a language to do this kind of thing. But if you are proficient in C++, probably better for you to try in that.