request: mirror auto-download directory

[gordallott]

Hi,
I am a long time rtorrent user who switched over to deluge recently, the webuser interface was too nice to pass up so far I think its great i really do. however I am missing one feature that was really rather important from rtorrent.

I run deluge on a headless box and generally add downloads by putting torrent files in an auto-download directory, works great. But i would also would love it if i could create a directory in the auto download directory and have the download start in a mirrored directory in the download directory.

For example:
add a torrent file to /opt/auto-torrent
it downloads to /opt/downaloads.

add a torrent file to /opt/auto-torrent/folder1
it downloads to /opt/downloads/folder1

In rtorrent i did this by manually adding rules to the rtorrent conf file that watched certain directories and downloaded them to certain directories. I haven't figured out a way of doing this in deluge yet =\ its especially useful with rss feeds (i use flexget).

I don't think it would be too hard to implement, but at the same time i understand that directory recursion can be a problem.

Thanks, Gord.

[andar]

There are plans to move the auto download functionality to a plugin where you could add multiple watch folders.. So something like this will come in the future.. eventually.

[silverdulcet]

Since you use Flexget, check out this post:
http://forum.deluge-torrent.org/viewtop ... =9&t=18865

The deluge plugin for it supports specifying the download directory for a certain rss feed as well as certain matches to an rss feed. It also supports telling deluge to move the torrent when it has completed (movedone). More information can be found at the wiki for the plugin here:
http://flexget.com/wiki/OutputDeluge

Flexget will also allow you to specify labels for certain torrents added through rss. Then within the label defined in deluge, you can have deluge move it to a certain directory when finished. This is also handy because if you manually add a torrent you can then change its label so that it will be moved to whatever directory is specified for that label. You can set up labels and label torrents through the remote gtk-ui currently. I don't think you can add labels and set a label for a torrent with the webui. I haven't looked at the status of the webui in the upcoming 1.2 release, with which you might be able to do this.

[gordallott]

Thanks, i'll check those out it would be nice if deluge auto-handled this type of curcumstance but i'm certainly not going to whinge if there are other ways of doing it

thanks very much.